The UGC has made it mandatory for universities and higher education institutions to disclose on their websites details of fee structure and refund policy, hostel facilities, scholarships, rankings, and accreditation, according to top officials.
The move comes after the higher education regulator observed that the websites of several universities lack not only in providing basic minimum information but that many of these are not functional and updated.
Details of patents, foreign and industry collaborations, internal quality assurance cell, internal complaint committee, anti-ragging cell with helpline number, and equal opportunity cell, are also part of a checklist issued by the University Grants Commission (UGC). “We have found that the websites of several universities lack not only in providing basic minimum information related to their university but also at many times their websites are not functional and updated. This causes a lot of inconvenience and uncertainty for the stakeholders.
“At this defining moment, when we are celebrating the third year of National Education Policy 2020, it would be prudent to request from the universities that they provide the basic minimum information and updated content on their website. We have prepared a check list of this information to be provided by the universities on their websites,” said UGC chairman Jagadesh Kumar.