The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the Golden Jubilee Convocation of Indira Gandhi Medical College today (June 3, 2016) in Shimla. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that for graduating s ...

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee attended the Golden Jubilee Convocation of Indira Gandhi Medical College today (June 3, 2016) in Shimla. Speaking on the occasion, the President said that for graduating s ...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has implemented a number of Joint Research Programmes between higher education institutions in India and foreign education institutions. Presently, 144 foreign educational institutions are involved in collaborative Joint Research Programmes. The number of foreign institutions involved in research and academic collaboration with Indian institutions (Programme/Country-wise) is as follows:-
Indo-US 21st Century Knowledge Initiative 32
UGC-UKIERI Thematic Partnerships 60
Indo-Norway Joint Research Programme 13
Indo-Newzeland Joint Research Programme 07
Indo-Israel Joint Research Programme 32
Total 144
The National Curriculum Framework (NCF), 2005 prescribes that learners should be provided with the opportunity to question, enquire, debate, reflect, explore, learn by doing as well as problem solving and critical thinki ...
The Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET), an Inter University Centre (IUC) under the University Grants Commission (UGC) has reported that the year-wise contribution, from 2010 to 2014, by Indian Institutions in high quality publications indexed in Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, also indexed on the Web of Science (WoS), is as follows:
Year |
2010 |
2011 |
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
Total (2010-2014) |
Number of Publications |
48163 |
52448 |
55538 |
61206 |
65198 |
282553 |
The INFLIBNET has further informed that as per the data of Indian publications on the Indian Citation Index, also indexed on the WoS, 58.26% of Articles are published in International Journals and 41.74% in Indian Journals. This comparision, however, does not take into account those journals that fail to make to the Indian Citation Index or the WoS.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has approved 29 Overseas Study Centres (OSCs) abroad. The country-wise study centres are: United Arab Emirates (7), Qatar (1), Kuwait (2), Oman (1), Bahrain (1), Saudi A ...
A number of Schemes are available wherein researchers/ scholars are assisted for their works: 300 Raman Fellowships for Post Doctoral Research aim at providing young Indian scholars an opportunity to have international ...
Agriculture Ministry will look into the special requirements of agricultural education and research in the north-eastern states. This assurance was given by Agriculture Minister Shri Radha Mohan Singh to Shri Kiren Riji ...
The Government has not setup any committee to create a framework for evaluation of research and rankings by promoting healthy competition among institutions, departments and individual researchers. However, based on the ...