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Regulating India's Higher Education
India's universities answer to one central regulator, the University Grants Commission, acting under the UGC Act, 1956 and the Centre's Union List power to set standards, while the 2020 education policy rebuilds degrees around credits that travel. A single-regulator Bill is with a Joint Committee, the 2025 draft rules on appointing teachers and Vice-Chancellors are still out for consultation, and 32 institutions sit on the regulator's fake-university list.
Last updated 21 October 20269 min read
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Moves the survey figures and foreign campuses to two new cards, so the regulator, the pending Bill, recognition, appointments, fees and funding are easier to find.
- University Grants Commission
- UGC Act 1956
- fake universities
- Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill
- National Credit Framework
- National Education Policy 2020
- Ministry of Education
- PM-USHA
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