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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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University of Southampton awarded licence to establish India campus 

The PIE News

The awarding of a licence from the University Grants Commission now paves the way for planning to progress for the University of Southampton Delhi NCR campus. “In In the 21st century, no university can be truly global without engaging with India,” said Mark E.

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Teaching and research? Yes, but universities have another important job

SRHE

But those of us fortunate enough to live in liberal societies – being, as the poet Douglas Dunn puts it, “on the pleasant side of history” – cannot be complacent: the institutional structures that we all-too-readily take for granted and which underpin pluralism and support our freedoms are, we have seen recently, desperately fragile.

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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.

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Governance as a topic in Higher Education Studies

SRHE

Introduction Higher Education Studies is not an academic discipline like History, Politics or Sociology but falls naturally within Marginson’s definition of it as a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary field of enquiry (Marginson, 2024).