Central Universities

The University Grants Commission (UGC) announced on July 18 that there will be no common entrance test for admission to central universities this year. According to the Commission, the Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET) could be adopted in the academic ...

The Central Sanskrit Universities Bill, 2020 was passed by the Parliament in the Upper House, i.e., Rajya Sabha. Earlier, the Lok Sabha had already passed the Bill in December 2019. The Bill will make three existing Sanskrit universities - Rashtriya Sanskrit ...

The central varsities have been asked by the University Grants Commission (UGC) to review and revise their curricula, at least once in every three years, to make the college and university students more employable. "In a recently held meeting of the ...

With an aim to ease the burden of high cut-offs in university admissions across various colleges in the country, the HRD Ministry has come up with a new idea of implementing a common entrance examination for all central universities. This attempt ...

Aiming to improve higher education in India, the UGC has started a new and innovative way of providing convenient and integrated plan of education for higher studies. What is Swayam? Swayam is an integrated platform for online courses to ...

The exam dates for Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET 2016) has been announced recently. CUCET 2016 is held jointly by the Central Universities of Haryana, Jammu, Jharkhand, Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Punjab, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu. CUCET is held for admissions ...

The government will provide Wi-fi connectivity to all central universities under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) programme. The government announced the plan in Lok Sabha on December 21. In a written reply in Lok Sabha, ...

Students of around 38 central universities will finally be able to access free Wi-Fi in university campuses in places including libraries, hostel, canteens and study areas. The high-speed network will have a bandwidth of 2Gbps allowing students to download data from ...

While the central government proudly claims near total student enrollment in primary education with Right To Education (RTE) and Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan. The story on its higher education counterpart is grim. There is huger difference when it comes ...

The Centre is planning to set up schools for minorities on the pattern of central universities in minorities-dominated areas, Union minister K Rehman Khan said. Union Minister for Minority Affairs Khan, who was in Alwar, to inaugurate a ...

The President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee addressed the Conference of Vice Chancellors of Central Universities (CUs) at Rashtrapati Bhavan. Speaking on the occasion, the President said, "India can be a world leader in education, if only we ...

In a move to promote educational content through satellite, an MoU was signed between Shri Ashok Thakur, Secretary, MHRD and Shri Jawahar Sircar, CEO, Prasar Bharati at New Delhi. In the first phase 50 DTH channels will be launched for ...

The UGC- University Grants Commission has hereby noticed that, in-spite of instructions issued by the UGC for implementation of SC/ST/OBC/PWD reservation in admissions and appointment, a number of complaints have been received by the officials. The complaints were made by ...

Several candidates who appeared for the Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET) -2013 were in for  shock and surprise after they found the results notified twice, with different marks, on the CUCET website. While a few were lucky to get ...