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BJP president Nitin Nabin meets UP MPs, seeks ground pulse ahead of 2027 assembly pollsBJP president Nitin Nabin met with Uttar Pradesh MPs to discuss upcoming elections. Discussions focused on caste equations and strengthenin...
DU seeks UGC intervention in reappointment of John Varghese as principal of St Stephen's CollegeIn a letter to the secretary of the University Grants Commission (UGC), DU assistant registrar noted that the varsity is "constrained" from...
SC reserves order on holding final year degree exams during Covid-19Many students and groups have filed petitions seeking court intervention to stop final year examinations and pass the students on the basis...
States can't decide to confer degrees without exams, July 6 directive not a diktat: UGC to SCThe bench, also comprising Justices R S Reddy and M R Shah, observed that the issue is if the state disaster management authority has decid...
Arvind Kejriwal writes to PM seeking cancellation of DU examsIn a letter to the Prime Minister, Kejriwal said "unprecedented decisions" need to be taken during the prevalence of a pandemic such as COV...
Eminence list to be slashed to 20 institutesThe new list had put that government in a fix as it had planned and secured approval for only 20 institutes.
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.
Modi government's world-class institutes plan faces autonomy hurdleConcern was raised on how it would be ensured that such autonomous institutes will not end up creating more JNU like ‘Kanhaiyas’, sources s...
Top universities will be free to prepare curricula: Prakash JavadekarThe decisions have been taken in line with reforms worked out for regulatory authorities like University Grants Commission and All India Co...
TISS seeks HRD Ministry help on funding tussleThe development comes barely a year after the Mumbai-based institute was forced to take bank loans to pay staff salaries while the governme...
1,445 cases of ragging redressed by UGCIn a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha, HRD minister Smriti Irani said the "remaining 100 cases are at an active stage of investigat...
DU VC Dinesh Singh defying government order on appointments, alleges DUTADUTA accused Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh of defying government order regarding the freeze on appointments three months before his tenure e...
TISS flounders as government fails to bolster it with fundsIn a letter dated April 29, 2015, Parasuraman told the higher education secretary that funds were insufficient even to pay salaries.
Has UGC run its course?When the UGC Act was enacted in 1956, no one had foreseen that higher education would eventually grow outside the public system.
Do not adopt 'Make in UGC' approach on CBCS: DU teachers to Vice ChancellorA section of Delhi University teachers has asked the Vice Chancellor not to adopt a "Make in UGC" approach for the implementation of the Ch...
FYUP issue: DUTA, DU employees, student bodies stage protestStudents under the banner of All India Students' Association (AISA) and Students' Federation of India (SFI) also participated in the protes...
- In N-war, allies mean more than education
The government is treading with care on the proposed National Commission for Higher Education so as not to upset any of its allies.