UGC set to revise National Eligibility Test syllabusThe National Testing Agency (NTA) conducts the UGC-National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) for Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and as an eligi...
Expert panel set up by UGC to ensure non-discriminatory environment for SC, ST students in universitiesA two-member bench of justices AS Bopanna and MM Sundresh raised concern about SC and ST student suicides while adjudicating a public inter...
UGC may allow pursuing multiple degrees simultaneously, sets panel to revisit the ideaThe UGC has set up a panel to examine the issue of pursuing two degree programmes simultaneously.
HRD forms panel on implementing 7th pay commission's recommendations in educational institutionsThe development comes against the backdrop of teachers' associations of various universities threatening to go on strike over the "delay" i...
Wait for UGC approval gets longer for Azim Premji University as 'further compliance' soughtAlthough they are taken aback, APU officials said they will work on the "shortcomings" pointed out by the UGC committee.
University Grants Commission seeks details over LLM coursesThe University Grants Commission (UGC) has sought details from colleges and Universities regarding the one-year LLM course being offered by...
Occupy UGC: Students march to HRD Ministry, demand dissolving of panelThe students camping outside UGC office in protest against the scrapping of non-NET fellowships today marched to the HRD ministry and deman...
Non-NET fellowship row: Govt appoints 5-member review panelAmid unrelenting protests by students against the scrapping of the non-NET fellowship by the University Grants Commission, the government t...
Ambedkar anniversary: Government aims rise in SC/ST student enrolmentThe government aims to increase the enrolment rate of SC/ST students in private universities during the B R Ambedkar's birthday celebration...
HRD ministry, NITI Aayog examine Gautam panel report on UGCThe HRD Ministry and NITI Aayog have begun examining the report of the Hari Gautam panel, which has raised serious questions about the func...
Red ink over two private universities' progress reportFormer vice-chancellor of the Karnataka State Open University, NS Ramegowda told ET: "Without compliance, the degrees of these universities...
University Grants Commission gives a year to 7 deemed varsities to remove deficienciesThese universities had gone to Supreme Court after they were put in the 'C' category in 2009 by the Tandon Committee.
Smriti Irani to decide four-year undergraduate programme's fate on UGC committee suggestionsThe ministry will take a final call on whether the programme is to scrapped, continued or altered on the basis of the observations and sugg...
- UGC behind 'mediocre varsities & colleges', says House panel
A parliamentary panel has found that only 30% of the universities and 10% of the colleges are of high quality.
‘UGC funded undeserving universities’UGC has over the years generously funded the dreams of many a deemed university.
- Govt may find it difficult to undo irregularities
With a HRD ministry-constituted panel has detected serious irregularities in the awarding of deemed to be universities status to institutio...
- Ragging may become a thing of the past
First year students can hope to enter campuses without the fear of ragging if stringent measures suggested by an expert panel are implement...