Ugc News

Kolkata, Aug 28: To learn about the rich diversity of India, students from Nepal, Australia, UK and USA will study at the University of Calcutta campus. Under the 'Connect to India Programme' started this year by the Union ...

New Delhi, Aug 27: Amid a raging controversy over its directive to the IITs to align their degrees with recognised ones, UGC has made it clear that the communication should not be "misconstrued" as an encroachment on the autonomy ...

New Delhi, Aug 22: The HRD Ministry has favoured a joint review of IIT degrees both by the UGC and the premier technical institute following a fresh controversy over the commission's directive to align IIT courses along the lines ...

Symbiosis International University (SIU), Pune has refused to follow the University Grants Commission (UGC) directive to scrap the Four-Year Undergraduate Programmes (FYUP). SIU has written a letter to UGC that "We desire to continue with the FYUP". ...

New Delhi, August 20: The UGC will now direct universities offering open distance learning (ODL) outside their territorial jurisdiction to transfer all the students to the state open university in that jurisdiction. However, in the absence of such state ...

New Delhi, August 18: In June, Delhi University's four-year undergraduate programme was scrapped and restored to three years after an ugly tussle between DU and the University Grants Commission (UGC). The university regulatory body has also ordered several ...

New Delhi, Aug 14: After the Supreme Court acknowledged the transgenders as the 'third gender' earlier this year, Delhi University has introduced an option of choosing the transgender category in the admission forms for the post graduate courses. ...

University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi has allowed the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore to continue 4-year Bachelor of Science (BS) programme. Earlier, UGC had asked IISc to drop this 4-year programme. The IISc had sent a ...

After the scrapping the 4-year undergraduate degree course at Delhi University, University of Grants Commission (UGC) has asked the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, Symbiosis International University, Pune and Shiv Nadar University, Noida to drop the 4-year degree ...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has issued directive to the Delhi University to introduce environmental science as a mandatory subject in its undergraduate course curriculum this academic sessions onwards. The 2014-15 sessions commenced from July 21. Increase ...

The NDA government will constitute a new panel 'National Education Commission', to revise higher education curriculum across the country, said UGC chairman Prof Ved Prakash. In Lucknow, to inaugurate the academic session of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University ...

After so many failures faced by the University of Grants Commission (UGC) in conducting the National Eligibility Test (NET), the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board bagged the opportunity to conduct NET examination from this year. But ...

New Delhi, July 24: A total of 6,251 teachers' posts are lying vacant in the 39 central universities under the purview of the UGC, parliament was informed Wednesday. Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, in a written reply ...

New Delhi, July 22: There are 274 universities and 7,070 colleges in India which have been accredited by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), HRD Minister Smriti Irani said Monday. Citing information provided by the University Grants ...