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  • UGC launches initiative ‘SAARTHI’ to create awareness about NEP May 18, 2023 06:08 PM IST

    UGC launches initiative ‘SAARTHI’ to create awareness about NEP

    Students who are chosen as NEP SAARTHIs will work as ambassadors to promote NEP by undertaking campaigns at university levels and using social media to disseminate information about the same.

  • UGC, AICTE, NCERT must come together to create framework for mapping future skills: Dharmendra Pradhan April 25, 2023 06:35 PM IST

    UGC, AICTE, NCERT must come together to create framework for mapping future skills: Dharmendra Pradhan

    The minister also said ”we need to de-link degrees from competency and envision a future where competency would prevail”.

  • IITs to adopt national credit accumulation and transfer framework April 19, 2023 09:45 PM IST

    IITs to adopt national credit accumulation and transfer framework

    NCrF is a comprehensive credit framework encompassing elementary, school, higher and vocational education and training.

  • Allow students to write exams in local languages even if course is in English medium: UGC to universities April 19, 2023 05:46 PM IST

    Allow students to write exams in local languages even if course is in English medium: UGC to universities

    The Commission has also asked the universities to promote the use of local language in teaching and learning processes as well.

  • Allow students to write exams in local languages even if course is in English medium: UGC to universities April 19, 2023 02:34 PM IST

    Allow students to write exams in local languages even if course is in English medium: UGC to universities

    The commission stressed that it is necessary to strengthen these efforts and "promote such initiatives as writing textbooks in the mother tongue/local languages and encouraging their use in teaching, including translating standard books from other languages".

  • UGC bars Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies from offering distance learning, online courses April 18, 2023 10:09 PM IST

    UGC bars Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies from offering distance learning, online courses

    The University Grants Commission (UGC) has also cautioned potential students against taking admission in any course offered by the institute.

  • Knowledge in Vedas, Puranas to earn students credits under new NCrF report April 12, 2023 10:17 AM IST

    Knowledge in Vedas, Puranas to earn students credits under new NCrF report

    The draft NCrf document was released for public comment in October 2022, and the higher education regulator, UGC, notified it on Tuesday after it had received all final comments.

  • Rise of 188% in number of students leaving country between 2020-22 February 08, 2023 03:03 PM IST

    Rise of 188% in number of students leaving country between 2020-22

    While a total of 2.59 lakh students left the country in the year 2020, the number rose by 80 percent to 4.44 lakhs in 2021 and to 7.5 lakhs in the year 2022

  • ''They will poach our good Professors'': Academics, experts divided over UGC draft norms on foreign varsities January 06, 2023 05:01 PM IST

    ''They will poach our good Professors'': Academics, experts divided over UGC draft norms on foreign varsities

    On January 5, UGC Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar said the foreign varsities and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) would need an approval from the commission to set up their campuses in India.

  • Foreign varsities will need UGC's nod to set up campuses in India January 05, 2023 12:02 PM IST

    Foreign varsities will need UGC's nod to set up campuses in India

    These universities will have the freedom to devise their own admission process and fee structure, Kumar said as the UGC on Thursday announced the draft regulations for 'Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India'.

  • UGC notifies curriculum, credit framework for undergraduate courses under NEP December 12, 2022 07:40 PM IST

    UGC notifies curriculum, credit framework for undergraduate courses under NEP

    The framework has been developed by revising the existing Choice Based Credit System.

  • UGC new draft norms: UG 'honours' degree only after completing 4 years and not three December 10, 2022 08:44 AM IST

    UGC new draft norms: UG 'honours' degree only after completing 4 years and not three

    The draft 'curriculum and credit framework for four-year undergraduate programmes’ prepared in accordance with National Education Policy is likely to be notified on Monday.

  • Online Ph.D programmes offered by EdTech companies with foreign varsities not recognised: UGC, AICTE October 28, 2022 04:19 PM IST

    Online Ph.D programmes offered by EdTech companies with foreign varsities not recognised: UGC, AICTE

    This the second such warning this year to students by the higher education and the technical education regulators.

  • Universities to use 'normalised' CUET scores for preparing merit lists, not percentile: UGC chief September 16, 2022 02:06 PM IST

    Universities to use 'normalised' CUET scores for preparing merit lists, not percentile: UGC chief

    Kumar told PTI that the scores have been normalised to provide a level playing field to students who wrote the exam in the same subject on different days or in different shifts.

  • UGC issues cautionary guidelines for students seeking admission in distance learning programmes September 12, 2022 09:14 PM IST

    UGC issues cautionary guidelines for students seeking admission in distance learning programmes

    The Commission has also notified a list of 17 programmes that are prohibited to be offered under ODL and online mode.

  • UGC declares 21 universities fake, maximum in Delhi; here are the details August 26, 2022 04:46 PM IST

    UGC declares 21 universities fake, maximum in Delhi; here are the details

    The state-wise details of fake universities are available on UGC's website ugc.ac.in

  • 25% extra seats,no entrance test for foreign students: UGC's plan to increase international outreach August 21, 2022 06:24 PM IST

    25% extra seats,no entrance test for foreign students: UGC's plan to increase international outreach

    There will be no entrance tests for these admissions, Kumar said, adding that the decision was taken at a meeting of the University Grants Commission (UGC) held last week to discuss ”internationalization of UG and PG programmes in India.”

  • JNU planning to set up centre to study 1947 partition August 21, 2022 05:00 PM IST

    JNU planning to set up centre to study 1947 partition

    The varsity will send a proposal in this regard to the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Ministry of Education (MoE).

  • With unfilled faculty positions, central universities descend into ad hocism July 29, 2022 03:01 PM IST

    With unfilled faculty positions, central universities descend into ad hocism

    The elite Delhi University leads the pack with 900 vacancies. It is followed by roster of (dis)honour: JNU, BHU, AMU, and more. No wonder Indian varsities continue to languish in global rankings

  • Set UG admission deadline after CBSE announces class 12 results: UGC to universities July 13, 2022 05:07 PM IST

    Set UG admission deadline after CBSE announces class 12 results: UGC to universities

    Noting that some universities have started their admission process even though the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) was yet to declare the class 12 results, Kumar said this will lead to the board’s students being deprived of a seat in these institutes.

  • Student admissions | Nine central universities get exemption from UGC's common entrance test May 20, 2022 05:02 PM IST

    Student admissions | Nine central universities get exemption from UGC's common entrance test

    State governments wrote to the Union Education Ministry and sought exemption from CUET this year even as UGC wanted to make CUET-UG mandatory.

  • UGC forms committee, finalising rules to allow foreign universities to open campuses in India May 16, 2022 08:28 PM IST

    UGC forms committee, finalising rules to allow foreign universities to open campuses in India

    The higher education regulator has already been approached by a few foreign institutions to open their campuses in India, says UGC Chairman Jagadesh Kumar

  • MC Exclusive: UGC to allow undergrads to do immersions with scientists, industrial R&D labs May 11, 2022 01:56 PM IST

    MC Exclusive: UGC to allow undergrads to do immersions with scientists, industrial R&D labs

    An institutionalisation of research internship and immersions at under-graduation levels will play a key role in catalysing inter disciplinary research culture as envisaged in the new education policy, the UGC draft guidelines say. NEP 2020 has a provision that allows students to avail multiple entry and exit during a four-year degree course.

  • India allows universities to offer joint, dual degrees with foreign varsities through automatic route April 19, 2022 08:11 PM IST

    India allows universities to offer joint, dual degrees with foreign varsities through automatic route

    UGC chairman Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar has said all the arrangements will be done via conventional mode—these partnerships won't be allowed for online, open or distance-learning courses

  • MC Interview | Apprenticeship-embedded degree enhances labour productivity, builds talent supply chain: Sumit Kumar of Teamlease April 13, 2022 11:07 AM IST

    MC Interview | Apprenticeship-embedded degree enhances labour productivity, builds talent supply chain: Sumit Kumar of Teamlease

    Data suggests that 98 percent of apprentices after completion of the training program get into formal employment, 37 percent get absorbed by the same employer, where they underwent apprenticeship training. They get a wage premium of around 45 percent in their compensation post getting absorbed into employment, says Sumit Kumar of Teamlease.