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The Bombay Club 2.0: How valid are misgivings about branch campuses?

The PIE News

As delegates reflect on the vast array of speakers and insights at The PIE Live India last week, they will be left in no doubt that the country is at a watershed moment in its history. The sheer number of international vice-chancellors touring the country illustrates the length of the queue at the University Grants Commission’s door.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

Funding for an institutional ‘research culture’ goes beyond higher education providers Taxpayer-funding for universities began to be allocated by the academic-led University Grants Committee (UGC) from 1919. It was to take the form of a block grant, which the recipient university might allocate as it chose.