UGC allows re-opening of universities, colleges on phases | Check guidelines
Education | Nov 05, 2020, 11:21 PM ISTThe University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday issued guidelines for the reopening of colleges and universities across India.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday issued guidelines for the reopening of colleges and universities across India.
The new academic session of both undergraduate (UG) and postgraduate (PG) colleges and universities in West Bengal will begin from December 1.
Shiv Sena MP from Worli and son of Maharashtra chief minister Uddhav Thackeray, Aaditya Thackeray has written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in wake of UGC, other universities wanting to conduct exams amid pandemic situation in the country saying it will risk lives of many.
The Supreme Court verdict on the University Grants Commission (UGC) guidelines to the state universities on conducting final year exams by September end is expected to be out soon. The top court had reserved its order on August 18, 2020 on whether the central commission be allowed to conduct final year exams in state universities across the country.
Foreign Universities will now be able to set up campuses in India to raise the level of Indian Education, after the Centre on Wednesday introduced the new National Education Policy, to bring a complete and overhaul change in the Indian education system with a number of reforms to create more job providers and not job seekers.
The Rajasthan government has decided to cancel all examinations of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in universities, colleges and technical educational institutions in the state in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said on Sunday.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday announced cancellation of college and university examinations in the state in view of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The final year/semester exams for graduate, post-graduate, and other courses for all universities in Madhya Pradesh will be held between June 29 and July 31, the state government said on Monday.
Universities, colleges and professional courses' institutes in Jammu and Kashmir reopened for administrative works with 30 percent staff, a day after the Higher Education Department allowed them to reopen, but not run any classes till May 30.
Universities may conduct semester exams in July either online or offline depending upon the feasibility and the COVID-19 situation and reduce the exam duration from three hours to two hours, the University Grants Commission (UGC) has recommended.
The technical and management education regulator of the Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry has said Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) courses can be run by standalone institutions, which are neither universities nor affiliated to any university, similar to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs).
A total of 105 students -- 50 from undergraduate, postgraduate or PhD programmes and 30 from Class 10 and 25 from Class 12 -- were selected. However, only 87 of them attended the programme.
In an exclusive conversation with India TV News, Phil Baty talked about the students' protests against the amended citizenship law across the country at various universities
University of Oxford: Situated in the United Kingdom, the prestigious Oxford University has the evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation after the University of Bologna.
"Since the founding of New China 70 years ago, China has achieved great success in modernizing its higher education. Some of China's cutting-edge research areas have started to assume global leading positions," said Dr. Christina Yan Zhang, China director of QS. Among the top 500 institutions assessed, China has the highest number, 165 in total (118 from the Chinese mainland). India follows with 101, Japan with 87 and South Korea with 71.
The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh has refuted claims of banning the use of mobile phones in colleges and universities in the state.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has released a list of 23 "self-styled, unrecognised" universities, eight of which are in Uttar Pradesh. The higher education regulator has warned students against taking admission in these institutions.
Networks representing over 7,000 higher education institutions from across the world on Thursday declared a climate emergency and agreed to undertake steps to address the crisis.
The draft NEP that proposes sweeping reforms in the country's education sector, has been placed in the public domain for suggestions from public till July 31.
Universities are autonomous bodies and there is no compulsion on them to teach any particular subject, the University Grants Commission (UGC) on Wednesday said.
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