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Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhadra Singh said that Amity University would soon start campus construction work near Dharamsala to provide students latest educational facilities in emerging disciplines. The university was recently provided permission to start a campus in the state recently.
The Chief Minister, during his address at the felicitation function organised by Old Students [...]

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Dharamsala: Himachal Pradesh School Education Board has decided not to allow JBT students to write their examinations in English, which means that students would have to write their answer sheets in Hindi alone. Around 2,000 students are enrolled in DIET centres spread across the state, and out of these at least 20% had chosen English [...]

By: Subhash Mendhapurkar
The problem with Himachal is that they have caught up in the fancy of e-governance without creating human infrastructure to handle this - too much literacy without education is the reason, I feel.
Let me give you brief of my talk with a Patwari last evening. The Patwari informed me that he got a [...]

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Shimla: Students belonging to Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories will be provided free lodging facility in all three government universities and colleges across the state from this academic year. Students would however have to pay other hostel related expenses. Instructions in this direction were given by University Grants Commission (UGC) to promote [...]

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Shimla: The Directorate of Elementary Education, Himachal Pradesh, has invited applications from eligible school teachers for the state/national awards, Director, Elementary Education, B M Nainta, informed here.
All such teachers/headmasters/lecturers and principals of the school cadre who have put in minimum 20 years service in government schools are eligible to apply, he added.
Teachers whose names were [...]

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Chamba: India’s first Cambridge University centre would come up in Chamba district, Himachal Pradesh, according to sources. The process of location and signing the pact has been finalised and the permission for starting the construction is being sought from the government.
The university would come up on a 42-acre plot, near Maihla village here and would [...]

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Shimla: Himachal Pradesh University has become the first university in the country to start a five-year integrated course in tourism. Giving final approval to the MTA department, UGC has sanctioned Rs 39 lakh as aid for running this course. Students in HP desirous of joining the tourism industry will now get a chance to study [...]

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Shimla: Students of Chamba district, who hope to pursue their career in teaching would not have to go out, as the town will have its own B.Ed College within one month, according to a government release.
The announcement was made by Animal Husbandry and Housing Minister, Harsh Mahajan, after dedicating the refurbished Chowgan number two and [...]

By: Vividhaditya
This is about one of the very good initiatives just gone wasted. “First website dedicated to the problems/queries of Adolescents” by State Council of Educational Research & Training, Solan, HP, proudly announces a link on the himachal.nic.in site. You visit the link and are not surprised to find half of the links not working.
The [...]

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Shimla: The computer education programme being run under the universal education scheme in Himachal has run into rough weather. At least six coordinators associated with the programme have opted out of it alleging that the company entrusted with implementing the project had been taking them for granted.
282 schools in the state were being covered under [...]