The PIE News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The sheer number of international vice-chancellors touring the country illustrates the length of the queue at the University Grants Commission’s door. The scale of opportunity in India is astounding by any measure; 1.4 We are told the backlog for campus licence approvals grows daily.

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The PIE News

JULY 23, 2024

Though the government’s move to offer financial support up to Rs 10 lakh for domestic education, can be seen as a way to make students stay in the country, experts believe it should not be seen as a disadvantage to ones wishing to study abroad. The budget for Central Universities has been kept at Rs.

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HEPI

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Government had been alerted to the future funding dilemmas posed by the likely increase in the demand for student places in higher education by the Treasury through the University Grants Committee (UGC) and appointed Lord Robbins as a safe pair of hands (with a strong Treasury background as well as holding a leading university position).

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SRHE

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The latter source grew steadily more important and in 1919 the Treasury established a University Grants Committee (UGC) to rationalise government grants which in the 1920s and 1930s rose to around 30% of individual universities’ expenditure.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

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.

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