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A group of college teachers under the University of Mumbai along with a few Senate members staged a protest at the Fort campus gate of the university on Monday, voicing their strong opposition to the implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, which according to them is “haphazard” and diluting the importance of core academic disciplines along with other concerns. According to the protesting teachers under the Bombay University College Teachers’ Union (BUCTU), several abrupt changes have been brought into the conventional education system without adequate groundwork or consultation in the bid to bring a flexible academic structure recommended under NEP 2020. The teachers claimed that interdisciplinary and co-curricular courses are being introduced without a clear plan for t...

Mumbai University’s Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS) will soon be granted independent university status. Indian businessman Ajay Piramal, who is also an alumnus of JBIMS, will head the committee to decide the roadmap ahead which entails examining the potential to make it operational from the academic year 2025-26, starting in June. Maharashtra’s Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil made the announcement on Saturday. He was speaking as chief guest during the inaugural function of diamond jubilee celebrations of JBIMS held at Sir Cowasjee Jehangir Convocation Hall of Mumbai University. Set up in 1965, JBIMS, which operates from the iconic red-bricked building in Churchgate, has completed 60 years. As the two-day celebration was inaugurated on Saturd...

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Campus Talk: University of Mumbai teachers protest over issues in NEP implementation

Mumbai University’s JBIMS to be granted independent university status soon