The UGC will be entitled to hold a single PhD entrance test through which all universities and colleges must fill 40 per cent of their PhD seats in every subject. The rest of the 60 per cent seats will be filled on the basis of students’ scores in the National Eligibility Test that is held mainly for the post of assistant professors.
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October 10, 2021The registration for postgraduate diploma in cyber security and law will begin on May 18. While, registration for PhD and MPhil programmes will begin on May 20.
May 15, 2018An integrated M Phil and PhD course student from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) who had been reported missing for the last four days, has “returned” on Thursday, police said. The student “returned” on Thursday and said that she had “gone out”. She is yet to give further details, they said. Earlier, a case was registered under …
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March 15, 2018Post-graduates and doctorates from premier institutes are going to teach undergraduates in engineering colleges in backward regions of 11 districts in Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Andaman & Nicobar as part of an HRD Ministry initiative. This is being done under the third phase of Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP). HRD Minister …
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February 1, 2018The latest trends in higher education reveal more instances of women dropping out from hard sciences — after completing their post-graduation (PG) and not pursuing a doctorate — than men, while more men did their doctorate even in courses where they were outnumbered by women at the PG level. According to the All India Survey …
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January 10, 2018If a university or higher educational institution does not figure among the top 50 in the national ranking or has a poor NAAC grading, admissions in PhD courses offered by it may get tougher as UGC has proposed making NET mandatory for the same. According to the new draft regulations by University Grants Commission (UGC), …
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June 7, 2017The University Grants Commission (UGC) has warned universities against offering research degrees like PhD and MPhil through the distance mode. The commission had earlier issued a circular stating that research degrees offered in the distance mode would not be recognised. “The UGC regulations on minimum qualifications for appointment of teachers and other academic staff in …
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June 2, 2017The University Grants Commission (UGC) has warned universities against offering research degrees like PhD and MPhil through the distance mode. The commission had earlier issued a circular stating that research degrees offered in the distance mode would not be recognised. “The UGC regulations on minimum qualifications for appointment of teachers and other academic staff in …
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June 2, 2017Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee will not be hiring its own PhD students as faculty members on completion of their course despite their academic and research credentials. “We are not open to hiring our own PhD students as faculty members and would prefer to hire best faculty from across the country and the globe. Hiring …
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March 26, 2017Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee will not be hiring its own PhD students as faculty members on completion of their course despite their academic and research credentials. “We are not open to hiring our own PhD students as faculty members and would prefer to hire best faculty from across the country and the globe. Hiring …
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