A shift in favour of academic courses deemed ‘popular’ by students, combined with an instrumental attitude towards higher education, may be inimical to the future of a nation aspiring to b...

According to the annual reports of the UGC, funding for the scheme has been declining over the past five years as it has been declared “closed”. The number of existing beneficiaries has b...

Teachers’ organisations on Tuesday expressed concern over the University Grants Commission (UGC) advice to varsities to offer courses based on student “demand” and “numbers&rdq...

The University Grants Commission has advised the central universities to teach courses based on student “demand” and “numbers”, raising the spectre of a gradual elimination of ...

The University Grants Commission has “advised” all universities and colleges to have their students perform the Surya Namaskar as part of the 75-year celebrations of India’s independ...

The three BTech programmes are for Computer Science, Electronics and Communications, and Electrical Engineering...

The central universities have decided to admit PhD scholars through the all-India National Eligibility Test (NET) instead of their own individual entrance exams, prompting some academics to contend th...

The University Grants Commission is set to be left without its top two functionaries from this week, entering a phase of what academics described as “ad hocism”. With UGC chairperson D.P....

Central universities will select candidates for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses through common entrance tests from the next academic year. The University Grants Commission (UGC) i...

A free coaching programme for Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, minority and women students that the UPA government had started at a central university in Lucknow has been stalled for the past four ye...