University News

Lucknow, Feb 3: Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik today appointed Vice Chancellors for Sampurnanand Sanskrit University (SSU), Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth (MGKV) and Agriculture and Technology University. While Yadunath Prasad Dubey has been appointed as VC of SSU, ...

Feb 2: China has ordered universities to ban the use of imported textbooks to stem the influence of Western values on the younger generation as President Xi Jinping's ideological tightening expands to campuses, official media reported. "Never let textbooks promoting Western ...

Jamshedpur, Feb 02: Jharkhand government plans to set up a sports university in the state to promote sports activities, Chief Minister Raghuvar Das said. "Jharkhand has a sprawling multi-sports complex in Ranchi but it was not functioning in a ...

Bengaluru, Jan 20: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited is planning to start an aerospace university with an initial investment of Rs 100 crore, its Chairman R K Tyagi said. He said the aerospace sector lacked the much-needed skills to meet its current ...

Lucknow, Jan 20: Uttar Pradesh Governor Ram Naik has said that it was a matter of concern that none of the Indian universities were there in the list of top 200 world educational institutions. "There are 700 universities, 35,000 colleges ...

New Delhi, Jan 12: Australia seems to be back in the reckoning for Indian students pursuing higher education, with the state of Victoria alone registering a 20 per cent increase in student enrolment in 2014 compared to the previous year. ...

Agartala, January 9: The Left Front government will set up a state university in Tripura and this will be taken up in the budget session of the assembly beginning Feb 16, a minister said here Thursday. "A bill to set up ...

New Delhi, Jan 9: UGC has asked all universities to take "quick action" towards semesterisation of course curricula and grading system against the backdrop of states agreeing to adopt choice based credit programme in colleges and universities from the coming academic ...

New Delhi, Jan 7: Taking up a subject of choice and migrating seamlessly from one university to another is set to become a reality from the coming academic session across the country as almost all the states today "unanimously" decided to ...

Mumbai, Jan 5: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has batted for giving universities more academic freedom and autonomy and promised to cut excessive regulation and cumbersome procedures to encourage research. "We want our scientists to explore the mysteries of science and ...

Bhubaneswar, Jan 02: Rashtriya Ucchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) has accepted Odisha government's proposal regarding, university status to Rama Devi Womens' College and a cluster varsity status to Khalikote College in Berhampur, said Odisha's higher education minister Pradeep Panigrahi. The ...

Agartala, Jan 01: The Tripura Government would set up a separate university for the state besides the existing central university, a minister said. We have prepared the State University bill to establish a state university. It would be tabled at ...

New Delhi, Dec 24: University students may soon be receiving tips from medal-winning sports persons about the reasons behind their success that would inspire them and help them build qualities like discipline and perseverance. The University Grants Commission (UGC), pushing ...

New Delhi, Dec 19: UGC has asked universities across the country to observe December 25 as 'Good Governance Day' amid the controversy over organising events on the occasion which requires physical presence of students on campus on Christmas. However, in ...