Ugc News

It seems like Central Universities of the country, are going through a tough time when it comes to faculties. The latest audit report, reveals that currently, there are 15, 573 teaching faculties in 39 central universities across the country. ...

University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi releases the list of universities, which is accredited by National Assessment of Accreditation Council (NAAC). Only 179 universities are accredited by the NAAC for the year 2014. A total of 651 ...

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 ...

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), invites applications for its National Eligibility Test (NET) 2014. CSIR conducts this examination jointly with University Grants Commission (UGC), in order to select lecturers and researchers. Eligible candidates can apply online ...

University of Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, has proposed that all Universities in the country must have centres offering Certificate Courses in Spoken Sanskrit. UGC officials has suggested that this idea of introducing the new course will impart ...

Department of Foreign Languages, Bangalore University is set to introduce Postgraduate (PG) / Master Degree course in German and Spanish from the next academic year 2014-15. According to the Coordinator of Department of Foreign Languages, Jyoti Venkatesh, there ...

The fate of 44 deemed universities, which were recommended to be blacklisted by the Centre, hangs in the balance with the Supreme Court directing the government to take a fresh look at them after taking advice from the UGC. ...

University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi invites applications for the award of 100 Fellowships under the scheme of "Post Doctoral Fellowship for Scheduled Caste & Scheduled Tribe Candidates" for the year 2013-2014. The objective of the scheme is ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) was the regulatory body for business schools, thus clearing the path for continuation of their autonomy. The apex court, in its Jan 16 order, was ...

Thiruvalluvar University, Vellore, gets 12-B status from University Grants Commission (UGC), New Delhi, under section of 12 (B) of the UGC Act 1956. On 10th January 2014, at New Delhi, decision was taken at the 497th meeting with ...

The Ministry of Human Resource Development has announced the new rule to regulate the B-schools and management programmes by UGC and AICTE. After Supreme court quashed the powers of AICTE, the decision was taken to change the powers ...

Minister of Human Resource Department (HRD) has called for a meeting with the officials of UGC, B-schools and AICTE to restore the powers of the AICTE regulations. A senior ministry official said, "There is an internal meeting to ...

University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi has approved the grant of Rs 46.20 lakh to the Centre for Distance Education (CDE), Shivaji University for the academic year 2013-14. UGC had sent the approval letter to CDE in the ...

One of the oldest University in the country, Osmania University, Hyderabad is facing the shortage of faculties in various departments. Recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had asked University Grants Commission (UGC) to look into the faculty shortage in ...