Education Wrap: GATE 2024 registration extended, THE rankings, IIM-B admission policy and more

The most important announcements, decisions and general developments in education and those around educational institutions, teachers and students are covered in the weekly wrap.

This week in education: what was in news

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The past week saw another plea being filed over exam and its cut-off, this time against the entrance tests for postgraduate medicine, National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Postgraduate (NEET PG). The Delhi High Court has now issued a notice to the centre on the plea challenging the NEET PG cut-off being reduced to 0.

The last date for the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) application was extended till October 5. The Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2024 was also announced on Wednesday, September 27.

In the weekly wrap, the most important announcements, decisions and general developments in education and those around educational institutions, teachers and students are covered. Here are a few of the developments from the week gone by.

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NEET PG Plea at Delhi HC

After hearing the arguments by the petitioner, Justice Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav who has been hearing the case against reducing the NEET PG 2023 cut-off to 0 percentile across all categories, has sought a response from the National Board of Examinations (NBE), Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Medical Counselling Committee (MCC).

Read | NEET PG 2023: Seat allotment list for round 3 out

New Online Programmes at IITs

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has introduced six new online postgraduate programmes under its departments of economics and management sciences. Unlike other PG programmes at the IITs, admission to these would not require GATE scores. Candidates can apply at emasters.iitk.ac.in until October 31 for the classes set to begin in January 2024.

THE World University Rankings 2024

The Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2024 was released on Wednesday, September 27. The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore moved to 201-250 band this year to be the only Indian institute to feature in top 250 universities in THE rankings 2024.

Also Read | Times Higher Education Rankings: Old IITs continue to boycott; 16 private, 28 public Indian varsities in top 1,000

Karnataka forms textbook review committee

The Karnataka government has formed a new textbook revision committee to revise the state curriculum of first and second language Kannada textbooks from Classes 1 to 10, third language Kannada textbooks for Classes 9 and 10 and social science textbooks from Classes 6 to 10.

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Also Read | ‘Ban on new engineering colleges for 2 years, control over student intake’: Karnataka higher education minister writes to AICTE to curb ‘unscientific’ increase in seats

IIM Bangalore Admission Policy

The Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) has revised its admission policy for its MBA programme. As per the new admission policy, more weightage will be given to personal interview (PI) round now as the weightage has increased from 35 to 40 per cent this year. IIM Bangalore admits candidates to its MBA programmes on the basis of CAT.

University of Toronto’s Support Desk for Indian students

Amid the ongoing diplomatic tussle between India and Canada, the University of Toronto has set up support desks to assist the Indian students there.

Once an MP, rape-convict Prajwal Revanna is now a clerk at prison library

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Former JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, grandson of former PM H D Deve Gowda, has been assigned clerical duties at Parappana Agrahara Central Prison after receiving a life sentence for rape. He earns Rs 520 per day and faces multiple charges stemming from four cases, with evidence including videos of the assaults recorded on his phone. He was found guilty in one case and still faces trial in the others.

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