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The recent decision of the rollback of four-year undergraduate programme by the University Grants Commission (UGC) has been welcomed by all the political parties of the country including the opposition, Congress party. They believe that the...
As the Delhi University (DU) and the University Grants Commission (UGC) clash over FYUP, seven colleges have reportedly written to the UGC about their move to support the traditional three-year course on June 23. The UGC received the...
For the first time in Delhi University’s history, principals of all the constituent colleges have decided to defer admissions for 2014-15 amidst the cold war between University Grants Commission (UGC) and Delhi University (DU) over the...
An unrelenting Delhi University Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh resigned amid all-round pressure to withdraw the Four Year Under-graduate Programme introduced by him some two years back. The move which is likely to further complicate the DU-UGC...
The Dental Council of India (DCI) is keen to redesign the dental education system of the country with the purpose to improve the skill of the dental practitioners to ensure safety of patients and improve the...
A recent survey showed that since October 2013, number of student visa seekers from India to study in the United States have increased. Student visa issuance increased by 40 percent as against the same period last year....
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued another directive to Delhi University (DU) to scrap the four-year undergraduate programme (FYUP). This is the second directive sent by the UGC to DU to abolish the FYUP and...
Universities planning to bring in new courses would be required to get mandatory approval from the University Grants Commission (UGC) six months prior to commencement of the degree programme. Moreover, the nomenclature of the new degree...
Punjab Higher Education Minister Surjit Singh Rakhra asked the Secretary, Higher Education, to communicate to all educational institutions that for any incident of ragging in any college or university, the institutional head would be held accountable....
Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Sloan School of Management is planning to invite India’s new Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver the keynote address. Potentially it is the first among the top-ranked American business schools to...
Offering sop for Marathas, the Congress-NCP government in the state has accepted the recommendation that 20 per cent seats in government jobs and educational institutions should be reserved for the Maratha community. “The government is going...
Infrastructure problems continue to hamper the higher education sector even as the government moves ahead on its ambitious plans of ‘one IIT, one IIM in every state’. Problems and delays with infrastructure — construction of campuses...