Proposed HECI could lead to closure of institutions in rural areas, fuel privatisation: Par panelThe Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) aims to replace current regulators such as UGC and AICTE, potentially leading to closures o...
HECI via consensus on 100-day agenda: Education Minister plans to introduce legislation in ParliamentThe Union education ministry will pursue its long-pending agenda of bringing in a single higher education regulator, the Higher Education C...
Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill misses Lok Sabha bus againThe committee observed that initially, the ministry attributed the delay to the need for reconciling the draft HECI Bill of 2019 with the r...
HECI bill to be introduced in Parliament soon; medical, law colleges not to be brought under it: Dharmendra PradhanThe Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill, which aims to establish a single higher education regulator, will be introduced to Pa...
Centre plans to bring IITs, Other INIs under proposed higher education regulatorIITs, IIMs, NITs and IISERS have so far been kept out of any external regulatory structure such as the University Grants Commission or All ...
Education minister Dharmendra Pradhan looks to dust off draft bill on HECIThe education ministry held many rounds of meetings through 2019-2020 to finetune the structure and framework of the HECI to align it with ...
Education Ministry in process of drafting bill for setting up Higher Education Commission: Dharmendra PradhanThe Higher Education Commission of India, envisages replacing autonomous bodies like the University Grants Commission (UGC), All India Coun...
Arvind Panagariya underlines the reforms that India needs most urgentlyThe New cabinet’s new job is ensuring speedy delivery in three key areas: liberating education, speeding up privatisation and ending exempt...
NEP 2020 opens doors for foreign varsities; HECI bill to go for cabinet nod soonThe ministry of education is preparing to take to cabinet a Bill to set up the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI)- which will come...
National Education Policy idea clashes with HECI’s sole regulator planWhile the NEP advocates a decentralised regulatory model with four autonomous bodies, the proposed Higher Education Commission of India (HE...
Government reworks Higher Education Bill to gain political consensusHigher education panel to have more academics and state representations.
Bill to scrap UGC, AICTE to be placed before cabinet in October: HRDHRD had last year announced its decision to replace the University Grants Commission (UGC) by repealing the UGC Act, 1951.
Looking back: The potentially game-changing reforms that governments dropped at the last mileKey reforms are hanging fire, but whether Modi govt has the will to go the whole yard is the question.
HECI Bill not to be moved in ongoing sessionThe Congress was quick to slam the move and both DMK’s working president M K Stalin as well as AIADMK’s M Thambidurai have also spoken out ...
Autonomous body to fund higher education institutesThe provision for imprisonment of three years for heads of institutions will kick in only if an institute does not comply with penalties im...
ABVP questions move to replace UGC with HECIThe ABVP has now gone on to term the Centre’s move to repeal UGC without waiting for the National Education Policy as “premature and unwarr...
View: HECI Bill can uplift Indian higher education, but requires some correctives before enactmentWhile focussing on certain legitimate but correctible shortcomings in the HECI Bill, the commentary has entirely missed numerous path break...