University grants commission

Eight-member committee has finally decided to extend the affiliation of all courses offered by GCCBA-50 and BBA course at PGGC-46 read more

Capitation fee refers to the amount charged in cash or kind in excess of the prescribed or approved fees to grant admission to someone who may not otherwise be deserving a seat . read more

The RAO said that the teachers had applied for the process based on the criteria of previous University Grants Commission(UGC) guidelines. read more

In May, 37 faculty members had approached HC arguing that PU has a promotion policy as per the regulations of UGC for other colleges but the same doesn’t apply to them read more

Shunning all material allurements, 26-year-old Balwant Chandrakant Ghorpade of Maharashtra’s Nanded is training to lead a life of Gandhian abstention and simplicity — “a fakir of a type well known in the east”, to quote Winston Churchill’s pejorative... read more

Of the 441 sanctioned positions, around 120 are vacant read more

The HRD ministry’s five-year Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP), which was released in June, called for the need to set up a Higher Education Commission of India (HECI). read more

A plea to the SC highlights continued discrimination, offers remedies read more

According to the official, out of the 14 new institutions that were selected by the University Grants Commission (UGC) on the recommendation of an expert panel, the process has been initiated for 12. read more

As part of the movement, universities and colleges have been asked to make efforts to better the health and well-being of their students, teaching as well as non-teaching staff and achieve physical fitness, mental strength and emotional equanimity. read more

The commission has reiterated the implementation of the ‘One Student, One Tree’ concept, in which college students plant as well as nurture at least one tree during the course of their stay on campus. read more

Strict guidelines, penalties and awareness programmes can help tackle the problem read more

According to a senior official, a review meeting was called by the higher education secretary R Subrahmanyam, which was also attended by Delhi University vice-chancellor Yogesh Tyagi. read more

The universities may constitute panels to look into discrimination complaints received from the Scheduled Caste (SC), Scheduled Tribe (ST) or Other Backward Class students, teachers and non-teaching staff, the regulator has said in a circular issued... read more

The official said the ministry may try to finish the process of going through the suggestions by the end of July and take the draft NEP to the cabinet thereafter. read more