Why government should not have interfere in running of the IIMsIndia must learn from Singapore and China. Both have built excellent educational institutions by providing funds on a no-questions-asked ba...
31 Aug, 2023, 11.24 PM IST
New deemed universities to get 'lighter regulations' next monthThe Centre will bring in new 'lighter' regulations for deemed to be universities in June, also making way for a new category of degree-gran...
30 May, 2023, 12.17 AM IST
UGC drops cap on contractual faculty for autonomous collegesThe University Grants Commission (UGC) in India has introduced revised guidelines under the UGC (Conferment of Autonomous Status upon Colle...
15 Apr, 2023, 08.04 PM IST
Indian universities eyeing African and Gulf nations, Thailand, Vietnam to set up offshore campuses: UGC chairman M Jagadesh KumarIn an interview to PTI, Kumar said several countries are coming forward to provide infrastructure to Indian universities to set up campuses...
16 Mar, 2023, 06.27 PM IST
Kerala: Bills to remove Governor as Chancellor, up tax on foreign liquor in Assembly sessionThe session was convened in the wake of the ongoing tussle between Governor Arif Mohammed Khan and the ruling LDF over functioning of unive...
04 Dec, 2022, 09.19 PM IST
DU's Sri Venkateswara College to Andhra Pradesh? Why teachers aren’t amusedAndhra Pradesh chief minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy has written that to “operationalise this, the government of AP intends to amend the AP ...
27 Feb, 2021, 10.09 AM IST
No ‘university’ tag for deemed varsities: SCThe Education Promotion Society for India, representing 57 deemed universities, had argued that the UGC Act implied that deemed universitie...
02 Dec, 2017, 12.16 AM IST
Cabinet nod to scrapping of no-detention policy till Class 8It also gave its nod to the Human Resource Development Ministry's plan of creating 20 world-class institutions in the country.
02 Aug, 2017, 11.10 PM IST
Modi government to replace UGC, AICTE with one higher education regulatorOne senior official said replacing UGC and AICTE by a single regulator will be the “cleanest, most sweeping reform” that will “eliminate al...
06 Jun, 2017, 07.54 AM IST
JNU, Jamia teachers join agitation against new UGC normsThe UGC has decided to organise a consultation with stakeholders including representatives from teachers associations across the country ov...
03 Jun, 2016, 07.20 PM IST
Third eye: Western influence in Smart City initiativeThe MP from Bihar said that though all knowledge is concentrated in east and south India, western cities have been favoured.
12 May, 2016, 02.38 AM IST
Central Institute of Buddhist Studies gets deemed university statusCentre declared the Leh based ‘Central Institute of Buddhist Studies as a deemed to be University in the de novo category on the advice of ...
27 Jan, 2016, 09.25 PM IST
UGC likely to allow PhD enrollment under distance educationThe development comes against the backdrop of IGNOU teachers reminding UGC about its assurance to relax norms in context of research progra...
21 Jun, 2015, 01.33 PM IST
NAAC moves towards autonomy, to come out of UGC's shadowAt the NAAC's 66th executive council meeting, it was decided that the country's accreditation body for higher education institutions would ...
26 Jul, 2014, 11.36 AM IST
Colleges await Delhi University decision to go ahead with admissionsEver since UGC directed DU to roll back FYUP, there has been uncertainty over the admission process that involves the fate of over 2.7 lakh...
25 Jun, 2014, 08.35 PM IST
UGC sets 2015 deadline for accreditation by Indian varsitiesUniversity Grants Commission (UGC) has warned higher educational institutes across the country about getting themselves accredited by June ...
18 Dec, 2013, 08.28 PM IST
Top colleges may offer degrees, UGC sets up panel to study proposalThe committee headed by former education secretary RP Agarwal will look into the proposal that would require amendment of the University Gr...
11 Dec, 2013, 09.09 AM IST