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...
08 Feb, 2024, 11.46 PM IST
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...
11 Oct, 2023, 03.32 PM IST
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 ...
20 Mar, 2023, 11.48 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
Merger of education regulators will happen this year: AICTE"All regulatory bodies including the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), University Grants Commission (UGC) and National Cou...
18 Mar, 2021, 08.13 PM 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
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
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.
25 Sep, 2019, 12.35 PM 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
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...
24 Jul, 2018, 07.34 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
MCI and UGC completely outdated, worst kind of institutions: Amitabh Kant"We have reached a stage where you can’t get into a 9% to 10% growth unless you restructure your institutions. Many of our institutions are...
05 Jul, 2018, 11.49 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
Why Modi government is replacing UGC with a new higher education regulatorHECI will be a new avatar of UGC with a different vision, focus and powers. While UGC has been vested with grant-giving powers, HECI will h...
29 Jun, 2018, 06.34 PM 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