Tag: University Grants Commission
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Excellence gained, glory lost
Excellence cannot be thrust upon an institution. It has recently been acquired by Calcutta University through considerable perseverance and tenacity of purpose. The process of attaining excellence involves the recruitment of outstanding faculty, providing them with resources and facilities in terms of laboratories, libraries, and research amenities. Now that Calcutta University has retrieved its lost excellence, it is time to strive further and recover its past glory.
April 22, 2019 -
Continual Learning
The Open Loop University system developed in 2014 by Stanford's Designs School envisages a stretch of six years to be used by a student and whenever he wishes to. He can start college education whenever he feels he is ready, pull out after two years, work for a few years and then loop back into the campus. The idea is that the fresh phase of education would strengthen his potential.
February 22, 2019 -
UGC restores recognition to Himachal Pradesh University’s distance learning centre
Kumar said that the courses would be updated as per the requirement of UGC and most modern facilities would be provided to ICDEOL to make the courses more relevant and vibrant.
December 31, 2018 -
UGC recruitment 2018: Online registration for Consultant to close tomorrow, apply now at ugc.ac.in
UGC recruitment 2018: The candidates can apply online for the above posts at the official website before November 30, 2018, at ugc.ac.in
November 29, 2018 -
UGC invites applications for Junior Consultant posts, apply now at ugc.ac.in
UGC recruitment 2018: Interested candidates should apply online for the above posts on the official website-www.ugc.ac.in
November 25, 2018 -
Anarchy of noise
The Supreme Court (coram: AK Sikri and Ashok Bhushan, JJ) had allowed the firing of ‘green crackers’ on Diwali within a time-frame ~ between 8 p.m and 10 p.m. For Christmas and New Year celebrations, the timeline was from 11:55 p.m to 12:30 a.m. The court also barred the manufacture, sale and bursting of chain …
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November 17, 2018 -
Benefits of tea
The beverage has a plethora of bioactive molecules that possess anti-oxidant, antidiabetic, anti-cancer and anti-arthritic properties.
October 26, 2018 -
HPU to get facelift
These were the promises made by the new Vice-Chancellor of HPU Sikandar Kumar during his first interaction with media persons here on Tuesday.
October 10, 2018 -
UGC NET 2018: Online registration process to end tomorrow, apply now at ntanet.nic.in
From this year, UGC NET will be conducted two times a year. The first one will be conducted from December 9, 2018 and second will be conducted in the month of July 2019.
September 29, 2018 -
Bengal not to celebrate Surgical Strike Day, Education Minister Partha Chatterjee terms it BJP agenda
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has directed universities and higher educational institutions to observe September 29 as Surgical Strike Day.
September 21, 2018 -
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