University Grants Commission Chairperson M Jagadesh Kumar says amendments will be made to 2018 regulations which were released before National Education Policy 2020.
M. Jagadesh Kumar said over 72,000 students are enrolled in 371 online programmes offered by 4 central, 20 state, 12 private and 30 deemed-to-be universities across India.
According to draft UGC regulations, higher education institutions in India can collaborate with foreign counterparts for credit recognition and transfer, twinning arrangements.
UGC has been planning this move for a long time, received a go-ahead for it in 2020. Guidelines were finalised and made official Tuesday by UGC chairman M. Jagadesh Kumar.
UGC chief M. Jagadesh Kumar says CUET will be used by all 45 central universities for undergraduate admission. For PG admissions, universities can choose to use CUET scores.
In an interview to ThePrint, JNU vice-chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar spoke about the university’s online mode of education, the arrests of students and 5 January violence.
JNU faculty members and other scholars associated with Special Centre for Disaster Research write to Chancellor V.K. Saraswat, saying ‘centre is in crisis’, like ‘the rest of JNU’.
In the storm around Sinauli, many academics dismissed claims of chariots being found. And the public misinterpreted the chariots as a device planted by the govt to fortify Hindutva.
Naidu’s summit brings in MoUs on same scale as Jagan’s, but CM says his plans built on speed, certainty & investor trust, with escrow accounts, simplified incentives & real-time oversight.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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