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UGC asks central varsities to revise their curricula

Wednesday, February 8, 2017, 23:36 [IST]

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 ...

Common Entrance Test For All Central Universities, HRD Ministry

Thursday, September 8, 2016, 14:55 [IST]

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 ...

What is Swayam? Learn More About UGC's Online Short-Term Courses

Monday, August 1, 2016, 13:13 [IST]

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 ...

Central Universities Announce CUCET 2016 Exam Dates, Apply Now!

Tuesday, March 22, 2016, 08:30 [IST]

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 ...

Govt To Provide Wi-Fi To All Central Universities

Wednesday, December 23, 2015, 11:38 [IST]

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, ...

HRD Ministry Proposes Free Wi-Fi For 38 Central Universities

Monday, November 16, 2015, 12:37 [IST]

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 ...

More Than 38 Percent Faculty Positions Vacant In Central Universities

More than 38% faculty positions vacant in Central Universities

Thursday, December 18, 2014, 11:01 [IST]

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 ...

Centre Planning Schools Minorities Minister

Centre planning schools for minorities: Minister

Friday, February 21, 2014, 09:49 [IST]

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 ...

Strive Be World Leader Education Exhorts President

Strive To Be A World Leader in Education, Exhorts President

Friday, February 7, 2014, 09:43 [IST]

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 ...

Signing Mou Between Ministry Hrd Prasar Bharati

Signing of MoU Between Ministry of HRD & Prasar Bharati

Friday, December 20, 2013, 10:57 [IST]

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 ...

UGC's notice on reservation policy for Central Universities

Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 16:15 [IST]

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 ...

Cucet 2013 Candidates Confused Over Displayed Results

CUCET 2013 Candidates Confused over the displayed results

Tuesday, July 9, 2013, 17:25 [IST]

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 ...

List of Central Universities In India- Ranking 2013

Friday, April 19, 2013, 14:16 [IST]

A Central University or a Union University in India is established by Act of Parliament and are under the purview of the Department of Higher Education in the Union Human Resource Development Ministry. In general, universities in India are recognized by ...

Higher education predicted to be expensive

Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 15:14 [IST]

Affording higher education wont be pocket friendly any more, with vice-chancellors (V-Cs) of the central and state universities recommending 10% fee hike every three years to be implemented soon.The suggested changes is on cards, and is recommended as a measure to ...