Central Universities News

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the Central Universities - Common Entrance Test (CUCET) admit card 2021. Candidates who have registered for the entrance exam can download CUCET admit card 2021 on the official website - cucet.nta.nic.in. One should submit ...

Central Universities will be filling up 6,000 vacant positions by October 2021. The decision was made during the first meeting between Dharmendra Pradhan, the new Education Minister, and the vice-chancellors of the central universities, which took place on Friday. ...

The National Testing Agency (NTA) has started the online registration process for the Central Universities Common Entrance Test (CUCET) 2021. Interested candidates who satisfy the eligibility conditions can apply online for CUCET 2021 till September 2 (11:50 pm). The CUCET 2021 ...

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 ...