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DAVV gets centre with potential for excellence

Edit The Times of India 20 Apr 2016
Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) might have missed the opportunity to secure University with Potential for Excellence (UPE) status from the UGC, but the varsity got a reason to cheer on Tuesday ... regulatory body, UGC, gave its approval for setting up the centre at School of Social Sciences....

Amended UGC norms may help fill vacant faculty posts

Edit Indian Express 20 Apr 2016
With the higher education sector facing a serious faculty crunch, the decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC) on relaxation of minimum eligibility conditions for appointment of assistant professors in universities and colleges has been welcomed by majority of academicians in the region ... HC seeks counter-affidavit from UGC,CentrePhD students demand relaxation in UGC norms....

After UGC move, state to amend eligibility norms

Edit The Times of India 20 Apr 2016
UGC's recent amendment relaxing the eligibility norms for selection process of assistant professor posts may hamper MPPSC examination scheduled for filling 2,400 vacancies in the state ... However, the selection process was cancelled in September last year after the UGC made NET qualification mandatory for candidates who had obtained or registered for PhD degrees....

National Assessment and Accreditation Council officials to inspect Khallikote, Berhampur varsities

Edit The Times of India 20 Apr 2016
Berhampur. After a long gap, two educational institutes in Berhampur are vying to get National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) accreditation. For this, separate teams of the council will start their evaluation from Wednesday ... Basing on their assessment, the NAAC will grade the educational institutes, the sources said ... The UGC has threatened to stop funding unless they get NAAC accreditation, the sources said ... ....

SC nod to deemed varsities to move NAAC for up-gradation

Edit Deccan Herald 19 Apr 2016
Institutions graded A, B and C are considered very good, good and satisfactory respectively, and are accredited as deemed universities with the UGC ... Prior to this, the court had rapped the UGC over the physical verification of infrastructure and faculty strength of deemed universities which were black-listed by a government-appointed committee....

First ever NAAC check of Vidyapith begins

Edit The Times of India 19 Apr 2016
The University Grants Commission (UGC) had threatened to stop grants to Vidyapith if proper quality assessment of its courses was not undertaken ... "There was an observation that Gandhian Studies at Vidyapith, the only basis for UGC not insisting on an assessment of the university, were actually taking a backseat ... They said that the Vidyapith rules existed much before it was recognized by UGC....

HRD panel recommends Rs 10 cr grant for starting Dept of Yogic arts

Edit Indian Express 19 Apr 2016
It is learnt that the panel has also suggested that experts from institutes such as Ramdev’s Patanjali Yogpeeth be invited as guest lecturers to different institutions as UGC norms for various courses ... “The committee has also recommended that UGC provide grants of Rs 10 crore to universities and colleges for creating Departments of Yogic Art and Science and to run them for a few years,” the member added....

Institute of Chemical Technology in Matunga in race to become world-class?

Edit The Times of India 19 Apr 2016
MUMBAI ... But this can be possible if the Centre decides to consider the recent rankings released by the ministry of human resource department (MHRD) under the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) ... The Centre is currently contemplating two parameters, said H Devaraj, vice-chairman of University Grants Commission (UGC). "The UGC had selected a few universities with potential for excellence (UPE) under the previous five-year plans ... ....

Relief for varsities

Edit The Telegraph India 19 Apr 2016
Forty-one deemed universities facing de-recognition got a reprieve today with the Supreme Court accepting the gradation given by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council and approved by the UGC ... ....

College governing body approves new courses for next academic session

Edit The Times of India 19 Apr 2016
... Council President Satyajit Singh Majithia after holding a meeting with council's honorary secretary Rajinder Mohan Singh Chhina, UGC representative Dr Vibha Chauhan, GNDU nominee Dr Paramjit Singh Judge....

TMC minister's 'plagiarism' turns poll issue

Edit Deccan Herald 19 Apr 2016
The allegation against Chatterjee in the middle of poll season has turned into a campaign issue for Opposition parties, who pose this as “another example of the ruling party’s corruption” ... Ghosh’s daughter Atrayee, a research scholar pursuing PhD from Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University, said, “Besides being plagiarised, the format of his paper is also does not follow guidelines laid down by UGC ... ....

PU flashes ‘no entry’ sign for outsiders

Edit Indian Express 19 Apr 2016
Checking of outsiders vehicles at Panjab University Chandigarh on Monday. Express Photo by Sahil Walia. Panjab University on Monday restricted entry to the campus for those not possessing any ID cards. Security was beefed up and checks were conducted at gate numbers 1 and 2 ... Share This Article. Related Article. ‘For now, we have restricted entry to the university’. Panjab University Registrar UGC norms violated at Panjab University ... 1 ... 3....

Panel recommends Rs 10 cr grant for new Dept of Yogic arts

Edit The Times of India 18 Apr 2016
New Delhi, Apr 18 () A committee constituted by the HRD ministry to prescribe modalities for Yoga education in universities has suggested that UGC should provide grants of Rs 10 crore to institutions for starting new departments of Yogic Art and Science ... A sub-committee of UGC will work on texts on the subject which will form the basis of these courses....
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