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Why only 2% of colleges in India are autonomous | India News – Times of India

Academic autonomy is under threat. At least in some states of India where the public university and colleges under it seem to be on the warpath over freedom. Of the 45,000-plus colleges across India, only about 995 are autonomous.The University Grants Commission (UGC) has been promoting autonomy for decades. But it has been an arduous long walk to self-rule.For one, autonomy is not uniformly spread across the country: states like Jharkhand, Manipur, Rajasthan and Goa have the lowest count of autonomous colleges with the largest pool in Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh.Secondly, academic autonomy in its truest sense is still uncommon, even though it is a proven fact that academic autonomy has an impact on performance in higher education. It is supposed to allow colleges to func...

The rot in India’s higher education system

Image for representation. File | Photo Credit: PTI The academic year of 2022-23 was marked by unprecedented delays in admissions to all university programmes because of the introduction of the National Testing Agency (NTA)-run Common University Entrance Test (CUET) regime for both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Initially, a CUET for PhD admissions had also been envisaged by the NTA for 2022-23, but that plan was summarily dropped in mid-September 2022. University administrations that had disregarded the serious internal critique by teachers and students of the blind ceding of this core aspect of university autonomy were left in the lurch.One such university was Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) whose tryst with the NTA is indicative of all that Central universities have suffer...

UGC NET Exam 2024 on June 18: Section-wise important topics you must revise – Times of India

UGC NET Exam 2024: The University Grants Commission is all set to conduct the National Eligibility Test (NET) on June 18 2024, Tuesday. The UGC is expected to release the admit cards for the UGC NET June 2024 exam on 15th June, while the exam city information slip has been released today, 7th June. The UGC NET exam acts as a uniform examination to determine a candidate's suitability for an assistant professor post in Indian colleges and universities.Additionally it acts as an eligibility test for the Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), or for both the JRF and the assistant professorship.The UGC NET exam consists of Papers 1 and 2. According to the official UGC NET 2024 exam schedule, both papers have offline multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Candidates have three hours to finish both pape...