These regulations have come into force after the HRD Ministry notified by UGC (Promotion of Academic Integrity and Prevention of Plagiarism in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations, 2018 this week.

The UGC will be replaced with the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) that will deal only with academic co-ordination, determination, and maintenance of the standards of university education.

Newly formed National Testing Agency (NTA) would- now conduct the national- level examinations -- NET, NEET, JEE (Mains) -- that were organised by the CBSE, HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said.

SBI in process to shut 9 foreign offices as part of rationalisation: MDState Bank of India (SBI) has closed six foreign branches and is in the process of closing down another nine branches as part of rationalisation of overseas operations, said Managing Director Pravin K Gupta. SBI, country's largest lender, has operations in about 36 countries with nearly 190 branches. Not all the branches in the foreign locations are full-fledged offices, he said, adding that in countries like B...

HECI would focus solely on academic matters. Monetary grants would be the purview of the ministry, according to the draft.

The Union Cabinet yesterday cleared revised pay scales for about 7.58 lakh teachers and academic staff of higher educational institutions following the implementation of the 7th Pay Commission.

This revision would register an entry pay growth in the range of 22 per cent to 28 per cent. The measures proposed in the revised pay structure are expected to improve quality of higher education, and also attract and retain talent

Come September and the Indian Institute of Ahmedabad, (IIMA) gets a new director - in-charge, Errol D'Souza. His appointment has been welcomed by many.

It also gave its nod to the Human Resource Development Ministry's plan of creating 20 world-class institutions in the country.

Policy analysts and experts have advocated the replacement of AICTE and UGC with a more efficient regime for a long time.

The varsities have been asked to identify all transactions being carried out in cash currently and find ways for replacing them with digital modes.

The Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's announcements in higher education are being seen as an important signal from the government, on the need to up the quality of higher education in India.

The headline indices rallied tracking negative trend seen in Asian markets after investors got rattled by a report flagging the possible withdrawal of global stimulus measures.

Going by the complaint made by Delhi-based NGO Citizens Forum for Civil Liberties (CFCL), the recent decision of the University Grants Commission (UGC) could be the first pain point that needs to be addressed by Prakash Javadekar, who replaced Smriti Irani as Union Human Resource Development (HRD) minister on July 6.

This memoir of the author's time as India's chief economic adviser is loaded with lessons in economics and has fascinating stories.

Ashish Nanda, the director of IIMA says, \"The Union Budget identifies education as one of the key pillars on which its transformation agenda is built. The budget offers support to education in three dimensions.\"

The decision to cooperate in the area of food safety and standards becomes interesting in the backdrop of the recent controversy regarding the sale of European food major Nestle's instant noodles 'Maggi' in India.

Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani, in a written reply to the Lok Sabha, said that so far, 85,335 government and government-aided, secondary and higher secondary schools have been approved for coverage.

\"All IIPM campuses now only have old students and these campuses are being shut down as and when old batches finish their courses,\" IIPM said on its website.

In a notification issued on Wednesday, the UGC has listed 21 fake universities - eight in UP, six in Delhi and one each in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and West Bengal.