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Shillong, September 12: North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) vice-chancellor Prabha Shankar Shukla on Tuesday claimed that principals of 75 colleges affiliated with the varsity were satisfied with the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020. He also claimed that none of the principals of the affiliated colleges have officially intimated any difficulty in implementing the four-year undergraduate courses in their respective colleges. His statement came in the wake of the state college teachers’ umbrella organisation the Meghalaya College Teachers Association’s (MCTA) ongoing ‘non-cooperation’ movement demanding the rollback of the policy....

Guwahati, May 6: Assam Governor Jagdish Mukhi said on Friday that the Gauhati University should act as a catalyst to fulfil the objectives of New Education Policy, 2020 by offering tech-integrated undergraduate and postgraduate courses to students. Addressing the convocation ceremony of the university here, the governor said that technology needs to be integrated into all levels of education in order to improve classroom processes, support professional development of teachers, enhance educational access for disadvantaged groups and make students employment-ready. He said that the existing faculties of Arts, Science, Commerce,...