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'Will Cancel Bail': Judge To Trinamool Leader After Court No-Show
A special CBI judge on Wednesday warned former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee that his bail in the primary teachers recruitment corruption case would be cancelled after he did not appear in person for the hearing in the court.
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Bengal Minister vs Governor Over Appointment Of Vice-Chancellors
Amid growing differences between the state government and the Raj Bhavan, Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Friday alleged that the Governor is acting arbitrarily in the appointment of interim vice-chancellors (VCs) to state universities.
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Bengal Government To Decide On 4-Year Undergraduate Course Next Week
Amid concerns among teachers and students over the delay in the proposed launch of the 4-year honours course at the undergraduate level, Education Minister said the government will take the final call on the matter next week.
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West Bengal: Fresh Row Over Talk Of Replacing Governor As University Chancellor
The state's education minister Bratya Basu had tweeted on Friday that there was need to "introspect" on whether the state needs to continue with the colonial legacy of governor being ex-officio chancellor of all state-run universities and eminent scholars should be appointed instead.
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High Time We Introspect If Governor Should Be Chancellor Of State Universities: Bengal Education Minister
Education Minister Bratya Basu said, "It is high time to introspect whether we should continue with the colonial legacy of the Governor being the Chancellor of Universities just by the virtue of his post or we should nominate eminent scholars and educationists as Chancellors."
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WBBSE To Promote Students Of Classes 6 To 9 Without Final Exams
WBBSE has decided to promote the students of Class 6 to Class 9 to their next classes without final exams for the 2020 academic session. The decision to promote the school students affiliated to the WBBSE board has been made due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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West Bengal: Undergraduate, Postgraduate Classes To Start From December 1
In another important decision, the universities decided to reserve 80 per cent of total seats under different PG courses for students who had studied UG courses under the colleges, affiliated to the university, or studied in the UG course at the same university.
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Students Crowding At Select Colleges, Seats Aplenty In Other Institutes: West Bengal Education Minister
West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Tuesday said students are crowding at a select few higher educational institutions for first-year admissions in undergraduate courses, while other "equally good" colleges in the city are left with a large number of seats.
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Bengal Government Should Rethink Stand On NEP 2020: West Bengal Governor
The new National Education Policy 2020 is a milestone. All of us should wholeheartedly enforce the new policy for the betterment of the education sector of our country. It will put innovation and research on a very high pedestal," the Governor said.
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Significant Rise In Number Of Universities In West Bengal During TMC Tenure: Education Minister
West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Saturday said the number of universities in the state has jumped to 42 from 12 since the Trinamool Congress government assumed power
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West Bengal Government Asks State Universities To Conduct Final Semester Exams In October
The final semester results for Arts and Science streams of Jadavpur University and Presidency University, which had already been announced on the criteria of 80:20 assessment, will not be valid and the two universities would have to conduct the exams.
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Vice Chancellors Of West Bengal Universities To Wait For Government Advisory On Holding Final Exam
Vice Chancellors of different state universities on Saturday said they will wait for advisories from West Bengal Higher Education department before going ahead with any plan to hold final semester college and university exams.
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West Bengal Launches Portal For Information On College Admission
The portal will provide information relating to admission to state-run colleges, cut-off marks and other criteria.
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Bengal Gives Mixed Reaction To Centre's New Education Policy
The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has evoked mixed response in West Bengal with IIT Kharagpur director, saying it has rightly given major thrust on multi-disciplinary education, while state Education minister Partha Chatterjee described it as a "copy-paste of western model of education".
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NEP Not Passed In Parliament, States Not Taken Into Confidence: Bengal Minister
Hitting out at the Centre for the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, a senior minister of the Mamata Banerjee government has said it was formulated without being passed in Parliament and the states were not taken into confidence.
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'Will Cancel Bail': Judge To Trinamool Leader After Court No-Show
A special CBI judge on Wednesday warned former West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee that his bail in the primary teachers recruitment corruption case would be cancelled after he did not appear in person for the hearing in the court.
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Bengal Minister vs Governor Over Appointment Of Vice-Chancellors
Amid growing differences between the state government and the Raj Bhavan, Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu on Friday alleged that the Governor is acting arbitrarily in the appointment of interim vice-chancellors (VCs) to state universities.
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Bengal Government To Decide On 4-Year Undergraduate Course Next Week
Amid concerns among teachers and students over the delay in the proposed launch of the 4-year honours course at the undergraduate level, Education Minister said the government will take the final call on the matter next week.
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West Bengal: Fresh Row Over Talk Of Replacing Governor As University Chancellor
The state's education minister Bratya Basu had tweeted on Friday that there was need to "introspect" on whether the state needs to continue with the colonial legacy of governor being ex-officio chancellor of all state-run universities and eminent scholars should be appointed instead.
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High Time We Introspect If Governor Should Be Chancellor Of State Universities: Bengal Education Minister
Education Minister Bratya Basu said, "It is high time to introspect whether we should continue with the colonial legacy of the Governor being the Chancellor of Universities just by the virtue of his post or we should nominate eminent scholars and educationists as Chancellors."
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WBBSE To Promote Students Of Classes 6 To 9 Without Final Exams
WBBSE has decided to promote the students of Class 6 to Class 9 to their next classes without final exams for the 2020 academic session. The decision to promote the school students affiliated to the WBBSE board has been made due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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West Bengal: Undergraduate, Postgraduate Classes To Start From December 1
In another important decision, the universities decided to reserve 80 per cent of total seats under different PG courses for students who had studied UG courses under the colleges, affiliated to the university, or studied in the UG course at the same university.
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Students Crowding At Select Colleges, Seats Aplenty In Other Institutes: West Bengal Education Minister
West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Tuesday said students are crowding at a select few higher educational institutions for first-year admissions in undergraduate courses, while other "equally good" colleges in the city are left with a large number of seats.
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Bengal Government Should Rethink Stand On NEP 2020: West Bengal Governor
The new National Education Policy 2020 is a milestone. All of us should wholeheartedly enforce the new policy for the betterment of the education sector of our country. It will put innovation and research on a very high pedestal," the Governor said.
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Significant Rise In Number Of Universities In West Bengal During TMC Tenure: Education Minister
West Bengal Education Minister Partha Chatterjee on Saturday said the number of universities in the state has jumped to 42 from 12 since the Trinamool Congress government assumed power
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West Bengal Government Asks State Universities To Conduct Final Semester Exams In October
The final semester results for Arts and Science streams of Jadavpur University and Presidency University, which had already been announced on the criteria of 80:20 assessment, will not be valid and the two universities would have to conduct the exams.
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Vice Chancellors Of West Bengal Universities To Wait For Government Advisory On Holding Final Exam
Vice Chancellors of different state universities on Saturday said they will wait for advisories from West Bengal Higher Education department before going ahead with any plan to hold final semester college and university exams.
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West Bengal Launches Portal For Information On College Admission
The portal will provide information relating to admission to state-run colleges, cut-off marks and other criteria.
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Bengal Gives Mixed Reaction To Centre's New Education Policy
The New Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has evoked mixed response in West Bengal with IIT Kharagpur director, saying it has rightly given major thrust on multi-disciplinary education, while state Education minister Partha Chatterjee described it as a "copy-paste of western model of education".
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NEP Not Passed In Parliament, States Not Taken Into Confidence: Bengal Minister
Hitting out at the Centre for the National Education Policy (NEP), 2020, a senior minister of the Mamata Banerjee government has said it was formulated without being passed in Parliament and the states were not taken into confidence.
