Central Universities News

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The University Grants Commission (UGC), constituted a Committee under Prof. J.A.K. Tareen on the norms for teachers to student ratio for various programmes and teaching to non-teaching in Central Universities and UGC-maintained institutions deemed to be universities. The recommendations of the ...

A panel of several vice-chancellors appointed by Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal have submitted their final report regarding the common admission procedure that has been recommended for all the central universities in India.The panel headed by former Jawaharlal Nehru ...