The higher education regulator has amended regulations to give 70% weightage to performance in the written entrance test and 30% to oral interview for the final selection of a candidateThe University Grants Commission (UGC) on Thursday rolled back the selection rules for research students, scrapping oral interviews, or viva voce, as the sole criterion for admission to Ph.D and M.Phil programmes
The higher education regulator has amended the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil/PhD Degree) Regulations 2016 to give 70% weightage to performance in the written entrance test and 30% to oral interview for the final selection of a candidate
The Commission has also relaxed five percentage points in the minimum marks to be scored in the written test taken by SC, ST and OBC candidates. This means that while a general candidate will have to secure at least 50% in the entrance examination to qualify for the interview or viva voce, a candidate from the reserved category will need to score 45%.
Autonomy to 9 more Universities
The higher education regulator has amended the UGC (Minimum Standards and Procedure for Award of M.Phil/PhD Degree) Regulations 2016 to give 70% weightage to performance in the written entrance test and 30% to oral interview for the final selection of a candidate
The Commission has also relaxed five percentage points in the minimum marks to be scored in the written test taken by SC, ST and OBC candidates. This means that while a general candidate will have to secure at least 50% in the entrance examination to qualify for the interview or viva voce, a candidate from the reserved category will need to score 45%.
Autonomy to 9 more Universities
- THE UGC granted autonomy to nine more deemed universities on 24th May 2018.
- While TIFR in Mumbai, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) and Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi, and Bharati Vidyapeeth in Pune were among those given autonomy under Category I,
- BITS-Pilani and SRM Institute of Technology and Science in Chennai were granted autonomy under Category II.
- The graded autonomy regulation gives institutions the freedom to start new courses, new departments, off-campus centres, research parks, appoint foreign faculty, admit foreign students, pay variable incentive packages to their teachers and enter into academic collaboration with top 500 universities of the world without seeking UGC’s permission.
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