Ministry of Education

The HRD ministry could perhaps use a little wizardry to come out of its present state of turmoil. Both Murli Manohar Joshi and Sanjay Paswan have had a beleaguering week and it's not over yet.

The HRD ministry seems to have woken up to what a senior official called “worrying signs” in the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS), which faces a dearth of teachers with nearly 23% vacancies. As per the standard procedures, the recruitm- ent process is initiated when vacancies reach 10% of the total sanctioned strength.

HRD ministry prepared a comprehensive action plan to provide education to children and youth with disabilities.

The HRD ministry's roundtable on protection and preservation of indigenous traditional knowledge and endangered languages has identified three areas that need to be addressed immediately to save languages from getting extinct.

The HRD ministry wants UGC’s prestigious National Eligibility Test — in the news for wrong reasons ranging from mismanagement to asking sexist questions — for lecturer’s job to be outsourced.

The decision of the HRD ministry to not allow German as the third language in Kendriya Vidyalayas (KVs) has not gone down well with public schools.

Indecision by the HRD ministry could hit the fate of 79 IIT aspirants who could not get into the prestigious IITs due to variance in calculation between the state boards and the institutions in deciding the top 20 percentile of students in class XII.

Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to HRD ministry, IIT Council -- the apex body managing IITs -- and Joint Admission Board, which conducts IIT-JEE, for alleged irregularities and largescale bungling in the exam.

Despite the University Grants Commission's contention that everything is hunky dory with the ongoing conference of vice-chancellors -- jointly organised with the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) -- the HRD ministry will give the event a miss.

In a letter regarding appointing, HRD ministry's under secretary (vigilance) KS Mahajan has stated, "The undersigned is directed to refer to note date 17/1/2014 on the TS-I section's file No.

The HRD ministry on Friday finally decided to showcase the results of its highly stringent learning achievement survey for class III.

The HRD ministry has objected to the attempt by UGC to give selective exemption from the National Eligibility Test/State Level Eligibility Test for appointment as lecturers.

Nuts and bolts of the right to education law is still being put in place but the HRD ministry is getting serious suggestions from a host of private education providers to implement the concept of `charter schools' in India.

Keen to press on with the job at hand, HRD ministry would like a raft of bills on foreign varsities, education tribunals, an accreditation authority, checking malpractices and distance learning.

Saying that Yoga is an art of "maintaining balance" and ensuring "well being" of mind and body, the HRD ministry has stated the ancient practice will have a "significant" place in the new education policy being framed by the government.

After receiving feedback from prospective students and parents about difficulties in procuring loans for paying fees for IITs, the HRD ministry is considering taking special steps to assist them. Officials said that the ministry may even create a fund which would take care of the interest component.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) and renamed the HRD ministry as Education Ministry, officials said. A panel led by former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K Kasturirangan had submitted the draft of the new NEP to Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank' when he took charge last year.

The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) and renamed the HRD ministry as education ministry, officials said. A panel led by former Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief K Kasturirangan had submitted the draft of the new NEP last year. The existing NEP was framed in 1986 and revised in 1992. NEP was part of BJP's 2014 manifesto.

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