Four-year degree imbroglio spurs action

The Economic Times 11 July 2014

The Delhi University undergraduate imbroglio appears to have speeded up the government's decision to restructure the higher education regulatory set-up, writes Urmi A Goswami for The Economic Times.

In reply to a written question in the Rajya Sabha, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani said that the government was considering setting up a high level committee of experts to suggest a comprehensive restructuring and revamping of the higher education regulator, the University Grants Commission.

Ministry sources said that the ministry would be focusing on a “clean-up” and “restructuring” of the University Grants Commission, or UGC, in the wake of the controversy over the roll-back of the four-year undergraduate programme at Delhi University. The restructuring efforts would not be limited to the UGC – sources indicated that the All India Council for Technical Education and the National Council for Teacher Education would also be looked into.
Full report on The Economic Times site

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