In a fresh salvo at the TMC government in West Bengal, Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has said there is a “policy paralysis†in the state’s higher education system, and that he is not consulted in the affairs of universities despite being the chancellor.
The visa will allow eligible students to work, or crucially look for work, in any career or position of their choice, for two years after completing their studies.
The Four Year Undergraduate Programme (FYUP) introduced by the Delhi University under the regime of previous Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh was scrapped by former Human Resource Development minister Smriti Irani.
India’s universities delivered a mixed performance due to significant changes at individual institutions in the 2019 Asia University Rankings released in London on Thursday. The rankings, collated annually by ‘Times Higher Education’, found that the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) held on to its 29th rank as a total of 49 Indian institutions made the cut to be included in the list.