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This is at # 96 in the list of UGC approved degrees in the Gazette notification of July 5, 2014 . That's all.

The very first thing to note is the shameful silence of the science academies which championed the cause of a four year bachelors program in...

Several newspaper editorials have come down hard on UGC, and asked it to back off from its highhanded actions against FYUP at many instituti...

Symbiosis University in Pune is one of the institutions to receive the love letter from UGC, and it hated it so much that it took UGC to cou...

Ask the UGC to send its diktat to the IIT Council , which is chaired by the HRD Minister, and has as its members some of the most respected ...

Here's an interesting speculation based on what some UGC insiders have said: UGC's problem is not with IISc/IITs/Universities, but ...

To be filed under "I learn something new everyday": Guwahati University appears to be the first one to have started a four-year UG...

I have no new insights into UGC's actions (which include writing to the IITs and asking them to get their degrees aligned with the UGC n...

A letter from S. Ramasesha in Current Science : ... While wilful plagiarism should be punished exemplarily, it may also, in some cases, be ...

We saw Ramanujan's grade card last week. It's Einstein's turn this week.

Infosys Science Foundation donates Rs. 20 crores to IISc for chaired professorships in mathematics and physics. The Lower Ambitions of Hig...

Over at The Conversation , Vishwesha Guttal, a colleage in the Centre for Ecological Sciences, has a piece on Indian higher ed with a speci...

This post has some updates at the end. * * * Basant Kumar Mohanty reports in The Telegraph (also check out Prof. Dheeraj Sanghi's ...

On this the World Elephant Day, you should enjoy this cute overload video shared by Sanjeeta in our Institute's Ecological Students Soc...

Two former directors of IISc have been quoted in the press about this issue. The first, of course, is Bharat Ratna C.N.R. Rao, in a CNN-IBN ...