UGC May Slash Minimum Land Requirement Criterion for Universities, Academics Fear Privatisation of Education
Basant Kumar Mohanty | 25 January 2025 | The Telegraph
The minimum land requirement criterion for setting up a university may be drastically slashed, with a panel constituted by the UGC recommending the sharing of facilities by institutions.
Some academics have termed the proposals a gateway to the privatisation and commercialisation of education.
The UGC on Friday uploaded the report of the six-member committee headed by Bharat Sharan Singh, the chairman of the Madhya Pradesh Private University Regulatory Commission. The panel was constituted to determine land requirements to establish higher educational institutions (HEIs) such as universities….