Last month, the University Grants Commission (UGC) issued a landmark circular that promises to transform the postgraduate education landscape in India. By allowing Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) already approved for two-year Open and Distance Learning (ODL) and Online postgraduate (PG) programmes to offer a one-year version in the same discipline, the UGC operationalized a major vision outlined in the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. For students holding a four-yea

The University Grants Commission’s fresh advisory urging universities and colleges to adopt nearby Anganwadi centres marks a significant shift in how India thinks about early childhood care and education. By asking higher education institutions to integrate these community-based centres into academic programmes, the UGC is attempting to bridge a long-standing gap between classroom theory and grassroots reality. Early childhood education, especially for children aged three to