The UGC in India is different from any grant-giving agency in any country of the world in one significant respect. It is possibly only in India that the UGC has been vested with two powers simultaneously. One is the power to provide funds and the other is the power to determine and coordinate standards. In […]
Foundation and Role of UGC | India | Agencies | Education
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Higher Education and Social Change in India | Sociology
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Higher Education and Social Change in India! Higher education in India stands as an immobile colossus-insensitive to the changing contexts of contemporary life, unresponsive to the challenges of today and tomorrow, and absorbed so completely in trying to preserve its structural form that it does not have the time to consider its own larger purposes. […]
Universities in India | Sociology
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Universities in India are creatures of the Acts of Parliament/State Legislatures. There are no non-statutory universities; none can be recognised according to the University Grants Commission (UGC) Act, 1956. There are, however, some non-statutory institutions like the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay or the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Pune which are recognised as ‘deemed to […]