UGC
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Franchise India Bureau Dec 29 2018 - 1 min readThe University Grants Commission (UGC) has pushed ahead with the strategy of offering autonomous status to India's better-performing colleges. The move is an attempt to boost the quality of teaching and learning in the country’s higher education institutions. The regulator of the higher education sector has given the autonomous status to 37 colleges so far. ...
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Franchise India Bureau Jul 20 2018 - 0 min readThe University Grants Commission (UGC) has formed a committee to suggest examination reforms in institutions of higher learning, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Thursday. "The UGC has intimated that it has constituted a committee under the chairmanship of M M Salunkhe, former vice-chancellor, Central University, Rajasthan to look into matters related to examination reforms," ...
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Franchise India Bureau Jun 29 2018 - 2 min readThe Centre has decided to repeal the UGC Act, 1951 to replace the apex higher education regulator body University Grants Commission (UGC) with Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. "In a landmark decision, a draft Act for repeal of #UGC & setting up #HECI ...
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Franchise India Bureau Mar 22 2018 - 3 min readIn an endeavour to liberalize the higher education, the government has made a landmark announcement to grant graded autonomy to 62 institutions. Prakash Javadekar, Minister of Human Resource Development in an event of FICCI announced the full autonomy given to the institutions which no longer require permissions of the University Grants Commission (UGC) ...
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Franchise India Bureau Sep 29 2017 - 1 min readThe Modi Government is all set to scrap two higher education regulators, the University Grants Commission (UGC) and All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and replace them with Higher Education Empowerment Regulation Agency (HEERA), one higher education regulator.The human resource development (HRD) ministry and the Niti Aayog are working on the new law.A committee ...