The Telangana government has constituted a Cabinet Sub-Committee to draft recommendations for the proposed Rohit Vemula Telangana Bill, 2026, aimed at preventing identity-based discrimination in higher educational institutions. The move comes a day after the Karnataka cabinet approved a similar bill.
The government has amended the rules for admission to higher educational institutions in the State, doing away with the 15 per cent non-local reservation and keeping it entirely for students from the State.
The UGC rolled out the new initiative as it noticed that a few HEIs admitted students in unrecognised ODL and online programmes, putting the future of students at stake
This was one of the key takeaways from the inter-regulatory authority meeting conducted by UGC Chairman Prof M Jagadesh Kumar to review the effective and timely implementation of the NEP 2020
The reforms have been recommended by the Ministry of Education Committee headed by Dr. K Radhakrishnan, Former Chairman ISRO and Chairperson, Standing Committee IIT Council
The move comes following a letter from the ICMR that suggested for inclusion of sickle cell disorder in the curricula of both school and higher educational institutions
Asking the HEIs to make their state-of-the art resources available to the needy ones, the UGC has authorized the HEIs i.e., host institutions to charge a nominal amount from the guest institutions
As HEIs are pushed into industry-academic linkage to ensure accountability and measurable contributions to society, a host of questions flutter out from the shady groves of academia.
Hyderabad: Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) Chairman, Prof. R Limbadri requested the University Grants Commission (UGC) to increase funding for the higher educational institutions in the State besides support to undertake research and teaching programmes. TSCHE Chairman along with Vice Chairman, Prof. V Venkata Ramana and Osmania University Vice Chancellor, Prof. D Ravinder […]
Warangal: The National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal, has slipped to the 59th position in the overall rankings of the higher educational institutions (HEI) as per the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings in 2020-21. Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan released India Rankings 2021 instituted by the NIRF, in New Delhi on Thursday. In the […]
