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Can online education become India’s great equaliser?

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Education (HT File)
Published on Aug 27, 2025 05:07 PM IST

UGC directs not to offer online, ODL psychology, nutrition, healthcare courses

Psychology, nutrition, healthcare courses can't be offered in distance learning, online mode: UGC
Updated on Aug 24, 2025 04:09 PM IST

UGC proposes papers on leaders, thinkers

UGC proposes papers on leaders, thinkers
Published on Aug 22, 2025 04:28 AM IST

Students urge SPPU to reinstate UPSC, MPSC special batch

This year, SPPU introduced what it calls ‘add-on batches’ with 40 seats each for UPSC and MPSC preparation. (HT FILE)
Published on Aug 10, 2025 05:36 AM IST

Observe Aug 12 as anti-ragging day: NMC to medical institutes

Observe Aug 12 as anti-ragging day: NMC to medical institutes
Published on Aug 07, 2025 10:09 PM IST

Professor Badri Narayan Tiwari takes charge as VC of TISS

Professor Badri Narayan Tiwari takes charge as VC of TISS
Published on Jul 31, 2025 06:10 AM IST

Govt in process of drafting bill for unified higher education body: Minister

Govt in process of drafting bill for unified higher education body: Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar
Published on Jul 24, 2025 09:34 AM IST

Central varsities have 26% vacant posts: Govt

Central varsities have 26% vacant posts: Govt
Published on Jul 24, 2025 07:24 AM IST

KIIT suicides: UGC issues show cause notice to university after probe panel finds serious lapses

KIIT suicides: UGC issues show cause notice to university after probe panel finds serious lapses
Published on Jul 21, 2025 08:48 PM IST

MoE in process of drafting bill for unified higher education body: MoS to Lok Sabha

MoE in process of drafting bill for unified higher education body: MoS to Lok Sabha
Published on Jul 21, 2025 04:20 PM IST

UGC team arrives in Odisha to probe Balasore student's self-immolation case

Congress workers blocked a railway track during a bandh called by several opposition parties in protest over the death of a college student in Odisha.
Published on Jul 19, 2025 05:57 AM IST

Panjab University to continue NRI quota for 2025-26 session

PU has reduced the fees for those coming from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries or from underdeveloped countries. (HT File)
Published on Jul 18, 2025 10:38 AM IST

SC issues notice after TN challenges HC stay on its power to appoint VC

A bench of justices PS Narasimha and R Mahadevan sought the responses while hearing an appeal filed by the MK Stalin-led government against the May 21 interim order passed by a vacation bench of the high court. (PTI)
Published on Jul 05, 2025 06:26 AM IST

SC seeks Centre, Governor’s response on TN appeal over VC appointment row

The HC’s May 21 ruling had come on a PIL filed by a lawyer who challenged the constitutional validity of state’s amendments. (File photo)
Published on Jul 04, 2025 12:18 PM IST

Four IITs, 3 IIMs, AMU on UGC's defaulter list for non-compliance of anti-ragging norms

Four IITs, 3 IIMs, AMU on UGC's defaulter list for non-compliance of anti-ragging norms
Published on Jun 29, 2025 01:46 PM IST

Delhi: NDTF seeks UGC rule change, recognition for ad hoc DU teachers

Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan. (PTI)
Published on Jun 26, 2025 08:33 PM IST

UGC NET Admit Card 2025 for June 26 exam out at ugcnet.nta.ac.in, direct link

UGC NET Admit Card 2025 for June 26 exam released at ugcnet.nta.ac.in
Published on Jun 23, 2025 08:13 AM IST

Academicians seek extension of deadline for submitting OBC certificates to DU

Academicians seek extension of deadline for submitting OBC certificates to DU
Published on Jun 23, 2025 05:26 AM IST

Bringing Scotland to Mumbai: Aberdeen University’s India move explained

Acting Chairman University Grants Commission (UGC) Shri Vineet Joshi Grants Letter of Intent to the Professor Siladitya Bhattacharya, Vice-Principal Global Engagement of the University of Aberdeen.
Updated on Jul 07, 2025 12:45 PM IST

Pune’s GIPE demands administrator for Servants of India Society

The University Grants Commission (UGC), which governs GIPE, has reportedly instructed the institute to halt any further financial transfers to SIS and to submit records of all past dealings. (HT FILE PHOTO)
Updated on Jun 12, 2025 10:59 PM IST

Anti-ragging rules: UGC show-cause notices to 89 institutions on non-compliance

The UGC directed the institutes to submit their anti-ragging compliances. (X)
Updated on Jun 12, 2025 12:48 PM IST

SIS holds AGM amid turmoil at GIPE; president urges full-time V-C appointment 

Among the key issues discussed were alleged administrative irregularities at GIPE, a pending criminal case, and the urgent need to appoint a full-time Vice Chancellor—a post that has remained vacant for months, contributing to uncertainty and disruption at the institute.  (HT)
Published on Jun 10, 2025 10:26 PM IST

University of Liverpool gets UGC nod to open campus in Bengaluru by 2026

The formal UGC approval was given to the University of Liverpool for opening its new campus in Bengaluru during an event attended by the Union Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan on Monday. (Handout)
Published on May 26, 2025 06:51 PM IST

Chandigarh: Seminar on higher education reform held

Punjab governor and UT administrator Gulab Chand Kataria emphasised the transformative goals of NEP 2020, underlining the importance of empowering colleges to achieve academic excellence, institutional flexibility, and responsiveness to the evolving demands of students and society. (HT Photo)
Published on May 23, 2025 10:12 AM IST

HC slams college founded on Gandhian principles for keeping professor on probation for 7 years

HC slams college founded on Gandhian principles for keeping professor on probation for 7 years
Published on May 13, 2025 08:30 AM IST

State universities to produce employment ready students through AEDP

Campus of TISS Deonar, Mumbai Pic: Kedar Bhat
Published on Apr 30, 2025 09:06 AM IST

Ludhiana: Panjab University directs affiliated colleges to implement revised pay rules

The university warned that disciplinary action would be taken against colleges that continue to defy its orders. (HT File)
Published on Apr 29, 2025 05:54 AM IST

SC allows UGC to notify anti-discrimination rules in colleges, universities

The 2019 petition urged the court to enforce robust anti-discrimination mechanisms across higher education institutions, citing the failure in implementing UGC’s 2012 equity regulations.
Published on Apr 24, 2025 03:15 PM IST

SIS committee to meet in Pune today after secretary’s arrest; police seize documents to trace money trail

GIPE was set up by SIS in 1930 with the latter being considered parent body. (HT)
Published on Apr 08, 2025 05:26 AM IST

New UGC rules to recognise foreign degrees in 15 days

The “University Grants Commission (Recognition and Grant of Equivalence to Qualifications obtained from Foreign Educational Institutions) Regulations, 2025”, notified in the Gazette of India on Friday, establishes a standardised framework for recognising foreign degrees through an online portal. (HT Photo)
Published on Apr 06, 2025 07:10 AM IST