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India’s UGC rolls out framework for recognising international qualifications

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Indian students who have studied abroad and wish to return to India for further education or employment can now apply for an equivalence certificate through the UGC s dedicated portal by paying the prescribed fee.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

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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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What is a ‘research culture’?

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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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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

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Higher education is now formally regulated by a government body, the OfS, while in 1974, the university sector, as it was then, was self regulated and had an intermediary body, the University Grants Committee (and later the Higher Education Funding Councils), to withstand possible political encroachments on autonomy from the government or elsewhere.