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What draft rules on VC appointments say, why states are upset

What are UGC’s new draft rules on Vice-Chancellor appointments and why are states upset?

January 14, 2025 1:31 pm

The Chancellor – or Visitor in a central university – appoints the VC from among the recommended names.

New draft UGC guidelines: Are we in step with the best practices in the world?

January 13, 2025 11:37 am

Regulations could remove some ambiguities in VC selection process. But resisting external interference, raising research standards, could pose challenges

Express View on draft UGC guidelines: Campus unfreedom

January 13, 2025 7:15 am

Liberalising appointment rules in universities is welcome. But giving Raj Bhavans decisive say in VC appointment goes against NEP’s objectives.

P Chidambaram writes: Vice chancellors will become viceroys

January 12, 2025 9:39 am

Under the present dispensation, governors are political appointees rewarded for loyalty to the RSS/BJP’s ideology or trusted retired civil servants. In Opposition-ruled states, the governor is instructed to act as the Viceroy of the central government and to shackle the state government. In effect, there is a Dyarchy in the states: the elected government and the unelected governor

UGC recognition granted to Bihar's first sports university

January 12, 2025 9:40 am

Retired IAS officer Shishir Sinha was recently appointed the first vice chancellor of the Bihar Sports University by the state government.

Leader of Opposition VD Satheesan said the draft regulations of the UGC were revised with the purpose of misusing the universities for political agenda in a letter to Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. (Express File Photos)

'Fitting if Kerala passed a resolution against UGC draft regulations': Cong urges Pinarayi govt to push back

January 11, 2025 4:33 pm

In a letter to the CM, Opposition leader VD Satheesan said the draft regulations were revised to ‘misuse the universities for political agenda’.

Tamil Nadu Higher Education Minister Govi Chezian

‘UGC draft rules (on picking V-Cs etc) are dictatorial… destroys federalism’: Tamil Nadu Education Minister

January 11, 2025 10:16 pm

“The resolution passed by Tamil Nadu Assembly exhorts the Centre to withdraw it (UGC draft regulations)… If not, this will turn into a people’s protest. We will even pursue a legal route against it,” Govi Chezian tells The Indian Express

In a post on 'X,' Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin said, "I had written to the Union Education Minister requesting the rescheduling of the UGC NET exams. It is a rightful decision that the exams have now been postponed!(Representational Image, File Photo)

UGC draft regulations on appointing VCs is assault on federalism, state rights: TN CM

January 08, 2025 8:53 am

The regulations prescribe minimum qualifications for appointments and promotion of teachers and academic staff in universities and colleges and measures for the maintenance of standards in higher education.

UGC eases hiring contract teachers, opens VC post to non-academics too

January 08, 2025 9:23 am

The 2018 University Grants Commission regulations had limited contract teacher appointments to 10 per cent of an institution’s total faculty positions. The new draft regulations have also removed the cap on such appointments.

Caste bias: UGG told to submit data on Equal Opportunity Cells

January 04, 2025 4:27 am

Hearing a PIL filed by the mothers of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi alleging caste discrimination in educational institutions, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjal Bhuyan asked the University Grants Commission to file a counter affidavit in four weeks.

Caste discrimination in universities: SC asks UGC for data on Equal Opportunity Cells, number of complaints

January 03, 2025 5:24 pm

The mothers of Rohit Vemula and Payal Tadvi had filed a PIL alleging caste discrimination in higher educational institutions. They have also alleged institutional apathy to caste discrimination.