UGC Gazette 2016

JNUTA statement on HRD Minister’s Observations

JNUTA is disappointed at the statement by the Minister of Human Resource Development regarding the number of research scholars working with each faculty in JNU, and considers his remarks as unbefitting of the Minister of Human Resource Development. First of all, the claim that there are JNU teachers guiding more than 20/25 registered students is … Continue reading JNUTA statement on HRD Minister’s Observations

The Struggle to Save the JNU Act – The Student Standing Counsel’s response to UGC 2016: Pratiksha Baxi

Guest post by PRATIKSHA BAXI The growing global mistrust and derision of the intellect and all that is the intellectual, is a political trd that displaces reason, method, contemplation, experiment, reflexivity and critique as valued traits in education. This politics colonises the University Grants Commission (UGC) in specific ways.

JNU VC misleads media on research vacancies: Ayesha Kidwai

Guest post by AYESHA KIDWAI The JNU VC has fed this information to the Times of India. The title of the table below, published in the Times of India, should be Get the Numbers WRONG, as barring two rows, all the numbers are incorrect. And the interpretation that our VC gives to these numbers is … Continue reading JNU VC misleads media on research vacancies: Ayesha Kidwai