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The passing of PM Narendra Modi’s mother, Hiraba Modi, on Thursday is an instance of a phenomenon Indians have long held to be true: that the cold of winter exerts a pull on the souls of the elderly. The world over, statistics show that more people die in winter than summer. A recent article by […]
The Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) on Monday announced that the new round of admissions that began on December 21 for the newly approved 18 new pharmacy degree and diploma colleges in Gujarat was over. The ACPC has admitted 300 students in the new round. The ACPC was to admit 50 percent of the […]
The Supreme Court of India upheld the validity of the 103rd Constitution amendment, which provides a 10% quota to people from economically weaker sections (EWS) in admissions and government posts, by a 3:2 majority vote on Monday, November 7, 2022. The Supreme Court ruled that the EWS quota statute does not violate the basic foundation […]
The state government has extended the state town planning officer’s (TPO) opinion on real estate developments from its previous six-month validity term to one year. This puts an end to the misunderstanding over the city civic body’s recent decision to entirely scrap the validity period of the opinion. The proposed town planning scheme requires builders […]
As Gujarat is becoming one of the better-performing schools across India with the introduction of smart classrooms under ‘Gyankunj project’, many school students have stopped attending private schools and have started joining government-aided schools. Sanjay and Ankita Prajapati are one such parents, working in private companies in Maninagar, have recently cancelled the admission of their […]
After the National Medical Commission’s recent announcement regarding the schedule for the admissions in postgraduate medical courses, the state health department has introduced a ‘bond policy’ for medical students applying for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on all-India quota basis in the state-run colleges of Gujarat. Until now, the stated bond-policy was mandatory only for the […]
Indian students facing visa delays because of Canadian immigration backlogs are unsure if they will make it in time for the fall semester– as Ottawa works out whether it can prioritize applications for September. More than 230,000 students from India are currently enrolled in post-secondary institutions in Canada. Students, universities, immigration consultants and even the […]
A total of 20,000 first-year seats in Gujarat University-affiliated colleges’ BCom, BBA and BCA programmes are still open after three rounds of centralised online admissions. Due to this, the university has decided to let colleges handle the admissions process independently. There are over 41,000 seats available at the university in more than 80 associated colleges. […]
In a recent clampdown on Gujarat IELTS scam, three persons from an overseas education consultancy firm were arrested in Ahmedabad for allegedly forging markesheets and helping out students to get admissions in the institutions abroad. It was found that the trio- Manish Zaveri (manager of the firm), Nirav Vakharia (a visa consultant), and Jitendra Thakor […]
The increase in COVID-19 cases and deaths in Delhi has also resulted in a nearly two-fold increase in hospitals in just a fortnight. Officials claim that people with comorbidities are admitted. The Delhi government estimates that at least 90% of those hospitalized patients did not receive booster doses. Most of the admissions occurred on Tuesday […]
The school in the eye of the storm, Mahatma Gandhi International School at Mithakhali, Ahmedabad has as one of the trustees, Lagdir Desai, the current Ahmedabad Municipal School Board chairman. The Mayor of Ahmedabad city, the municipal commissioner, and the chairman of the municipal school board are ex-officio trustees in the trust established by the […]
Gujarat University had to cancel admissions of 250 students for Master of Science courses because of the confusion that persisted about the availability of seats at colleges. Gujarat University completed its first round of admissions to MSc courses. 5,400 students had registered for only 2,400 seats.After asking the preferences of 1,000 students, they were given […]
The incoming class of 2022-23 at MICA, Ahmedabad – Management school for Strategic Marketing and Communication, has more female students than male students. The admission for the programmes saw an enrollment of 244 students across all three programmes- PGP, CC, And FPM, Out of them, 124 are female students. The highest number of students are […]
As the first round of admissions for the undergraduates have finished, Gujarat University has opined its views on the matter of shutting down at least four grant-in-aid colleges. GU held a meeting of the Need Committee after various protests to shut down the colleges over lack of funds and manpower were being made. Its final […]
With improved quality of education and a truckload of facilities being now available, government schools are giving tough competition to private schools, as many students are seen shifting from private-run schools to government ones.The number of students shifting from private to government schools across the state is increasing. According to the Primary Education Department, the […]
There’s nothing better than a good conversation to light the creative spark. Films are made, businesses strategies are formulated, books are written and scientific innovations occur as a consequence of a single great conversation. Nitin Nohria, former dean of Harvard Business School, once told me in the course of an interview that some of his […]
The plot of the popular movie, “Hindi Medium” is not at all fictitious, as parents in Ahmedabad are feigning to be poor so as to get their ward admitted to renowned schools. To prevent this violation of the Right to Education, half a dozen schools in Ahmedabad have hired detective agencies to ensure that the documents […]
Nearly, three days after the Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board (GSHSEB) declared the Class 10 results, it issued a circular to the schools to instruct them to start the procedures for the admissions in Class 11 science stream. For the first time, the Gujarat education board provided two options for Math subject this […]
The Gujarat Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board on Saturday declared Class 12 general stream results. The admission procedures for the undergrads will soon be started by Gujarat University. This year the results of the general stream were declared for over four lakh students, who appeared in the exams. The state on Saturday reported its […]
India reported 4,041 new Covid-19 infections on Friday — the highest single-day jump since March 11. This is reason to worry given that the densely-populated country has high levels of poverty and illiteracy, twin evils known to propel any scourge. Given that India has eased almost all restrictions, the news might have come in […]
