Tag: University Grants Commission

Teachers’ Day 2018 | President Kovind, PM Modi pay tribute to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Several other organisations, political leaders and parties remembered the former President and greeted the nation on Teachers' Day

September 5, 2018

UGC seeks proposals from institutions for extension of vocational courses

“The UGC has invited proposals from those institutions which have been running Bachelor of Vocational Courses (BVoc) and community college programmes in order to consider the extension of courses being run under the said programmes,” a senior UGC official said.

September 2, 2018

UGC warning to 21 DU colleges: Appoint regular principal or grants will be withheld

These colleges have time till 31 August to comply

August 28, 2018

Manabadi APSET 2018 results out at apset.net.in | Check now

Manabadi 2018: Andhra University, Visakhapatnam conducted the APSET examination 2018 on behalf of Government of Andhra Pradesh on July 1 in 31 subjects that were approved by University Grants Commission.

August 20, 2018

Applications sought for scholarships to handicapped students

The Social Security, Women and Child Development Department, Punjab, has invited applications for awarding pre and post matric scholarships for the students with disabilities. The Social Security and Women and Child Development Minister, Aruna Chaudhary said all these scholarships are available to the students with 40 per cent disabilities with a proper certificate issued by …

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August 18, 2018

Below benchmark

The students deserve better, as in most conventional universities. It can only work to the detriment of learning if the Indira Gandhi National Open University can ignite a controversy between institutions that offer the course ~ albeit unconventional ~ and the University Grants Commission, the regulatory authority. The terms of engagement ought to have been …

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August 13, 2018

Disbanding UGC

The discourse over the move to put in place a new higher education regulator might linger for some time yet. Suffice it to register that neither the teachers nor the taught are convinced about the Centre’s rationale, but of course, the government seems intent on reinforcing its intervention in matters academic. Sixty-two years after its …

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July 2, 2018

Mishmash of Learning

Reform seems to be the buzzword in the educational sphere and it is in conformity with the University Grants Commission’s suggestion that Calcutta University has decided to go ahead with the Choice-Based Credit System with effect from the next academic session. Calcutta University wants this system to be followed because it allows students “seamless mobility” …

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June 29, 2018

Centre plans to scrap UGC, proposes new Higher Education Commission

HRD Ministry announces repeal of UGC Act, seeking with replace it with proposed Higher Education Commission of India Act, 2018

June 27, 2018

UGC releases list of fake varsities

The University Grants Commission has released a list of 24 “self-styled” and fake varsities across the country, including eight in the  Capital. “Students and public at large are informed that at present following 24 self-styled and unrecognised institutions are functioning in contravention of the UGC Act in various parts of the country,” a notice issued …

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April 24, 2018

Full Freedom

It has been a great day for Jadavpur University as it boasts “full autonomy” in league with Jawaharlal Nehru University and the University of Hyderabad ~ central universities both ~, Homi Bhabha National Institute in Mumbai, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and NALSAR, also in Hyderabad. For Jadavpur, the inherent irony in last Tuesday’s announcement …

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March 25, 2018

‘National’ Psychology

A subject as dense as psychology is best left to professional psychologists and academics in terms of formulation of the course content for the under-graduate, post-graduate, and doctoral levels. Yet as the overarching authority in matters academic, the University Grants Commission, a quasi-bureaucratic entity, appears to have arrogated to itself the right to frame the …

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October 12, 2017

Plagiarised research

The raft of measures unveiled by the University Grants Commission to check plagiarism in research is an oblique admission of a distressing reality that many a thesis lacks originality. This in itself makes a mockery of the stress on research as the hallmark of a university’s excellence. This maxim can be open to question as …

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September 11, 2017

Emphasising accountability

The ministry of human resource development, Government of India had announced to scrap University Grants Commission and All India Council for Technical Education and replace it with a new body named Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency to regulate both technical and non-technical institutions, but in a recent announcement this has been put on hold. The …

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September 5, 2017

‘In a state of disrepair’

Padma Shri Pritam Singh, a leading personality on the higher education scene in India said, over a decade ago, “Laxmi the goddess of wealth, was freed from chains in 1991”, when the government, faced with an imminent default in meeting the country’s Forex commitments, liberalised the economy and amongst other things, de-licensed industrial manufacturing. However, …

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August 15, 2017

Towards freedom

The University Grants Commission has decided to grant autonomy to more colleges even without on-the-spot inspection by an expert committee. This is a major development in the academic sphere under the BJP dispensation. However, the concept still seems to be a mirage as the criteria for granting autonomy have been left rather vague. The establishment …

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March 20, 2017

Panel set up to zero in on UGC chief

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has constituted a search-cum-selection committee for appointing a new chairman for the University Grants Commission, the regulator for higher educational institutions and universities. The committee is tasked with seeking nominations for selection of the new chairman of UGC. According to a notice issued by UGC, eminent persons with substantial …

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February 25, 2017