The HRD ministry’s proposal is that inspection of institutes for accreditation — may be outsourced to a consortium of IITs and IIMs.

HRD minister Smriti Irani says that PM Narendra Modi’s hard questions leave one with no option but to work diligently and deliver results.

She informed the House that "we are reviewing the (functioning of) UGC, AICTE and also NCTE, the demand which has come from across the stat...

To ensure that each of the 300-odd universities and 13,000-odd colleges in the country’ higher education system is assessed in a transparen...