Cluster universities on waiting list with single regulator planThe idea of the scheme, first announced in the union budget of 2021-22, was to consolidate and optimally utilise human and infrastructural ...
02 Jun, 2022, 11.42 PM IST
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 ...
11 Sep, 2021, 11.14 PM IST
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...
26 Jul, 2021, 09.57 AM IST
View: National Education Policy 2020 offers transformative road map for colleges and universitiesThe long-term plan as per the policy is to do away with the current system of colleges affiliated to universities. Each college would becom...
19 Aug, 2020, 10.19 AM IST
View: The success of the groundbreaking NEP will fully depend on its implementationGoI must ensure that this becomes a truly collective national endeavour. The state governments, irrespective of which political party is in...
10 Aug, 2020, 11.02 PM IST
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...
03 Aug, 2020, 11.54 AM IST
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...
31 Oct, 2019, 08.07 AM IST
Government reworks Higher Education Bill to gain political consensusHigher education panel to have more academics and state representations.
27 Sep, 2019, 07.42 AM IST
The caravan of reforms keeps moving in full pace: Arvind PanagariyaThis is a budget that, despite the temptation and a good enough excuse, doesn’t stray from the Modi government’s agenda to maintain fiscal ...
05 Jul, 2019, 11.50 PM IST
Nirmala Sitharaman’s Union Budget for 2019-20: Key HighlightsAt first glance, it looked like Union Budget 2019 has disappointed Dalal Street.
05 Jul, 2019, 08.00 PM IST
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.
16 Aug, 2018, 07.31 AM IST
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 ...
01 Aug, 2018, 09.55 AM IST
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...
17 Jul, 2018, 07.35 AM IST
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...
05 Jul, 2018, 09.44 AM IST
Modi government to dissolve UGC, set up new Higher Education CommissionThe govt today announced a complete overhaul of the apex higher education regulator - UGC, repeal of the UGC Act, 1951 and a fresh legislat...
28 Jun, 2018, 07.45 AM IST