UGC

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission has framed a set of new rules which could make a college ineligible to receive grants for charging capitation fee. The UGC (Fitness of Colleges for Receiving Grants) Rules, 2019, which has been…

New Delhi: The Union Cabinet is likely to clear a proposal in the first week of October for the merger of UGC and AICTE into a single body regulating both technical and higher educational institutes in the country. Once the proposal is…

Sambalpur: The Odisha government on Thursday ordered a probe into the brutal ragging of junior students of Vir Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), in Burla after a video of the indiscriminate and inhumane torture by the seniors…

Bhubaneswar: The University Grants Commission (UGC), in pursuance of the directive of the Supreme Court, has directed all the union territories and states, including Odisha, to take immediate steps to checking ragging on the campuses of the…

New Delhi: A UGC committee has proposed the return of the 4-year undergraduate courses. In its report on “Promoting and Improving the Quality of Research in Indian Universities/ Colleges”, the committee has proposed re-introduction of the…

New Delhi: The UGC has recommended 'Institute of Eminence' (IoE) status for Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) here so as to help it become a world-class teaching and research institution. The recommendation came after the…

New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has reiterated its advisory to universities to stop incidents of caste-based discrimination on their campuses and strengthen the redressal mechanism. In a communication issued to…

New Delhi: The quality of PhD thesis for which doctoral degrees have been awarded in the last 10 years by universities across the country is likely to come under the scanner. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has decided on the move in…