The University Grants Commission was established with which of the following…
2015
The University Grants Commission was established with which of the following aims?
(a) Promotion of research and development in higher education
(b) Identifying and sustaining institutions of potential learning
(c) Capacity building of teachers
(d) Providing autonomy to each and every higher educational institution in India
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Answer: B. (a), (b) and (c) — ConceptRegulatory bodies in higher education pursue system-wide quality and capacity goals. A universal claim must be tested separately: support for research,…
- A.
(a), (b), (c) and (d)
- B.
(a), (b) and (c)
- C.
(b), (c) and (d)
- D.
(a), (b) and (d)
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Correct answer: B
Concept
Regulatory bodies in higher education pursue system-wide quality and capacity goals. A universal claim must be tested separately: support for research, institutions, or teachers can be sector-wide aims, whereas a benefit said to apply to every institution requires an explicit universal mandate.
Application
(a) concerns research promotion and development in higher education, a sector-wide quality function.
(b) concerns identifying and sustaining institutions with potential, an institutional-development function.
(c) concerns building teachers' capacity, a faculty-development function.
(d) asserts autonomy for every higher-education institution; UGC autonomy is not an automatic universal grant to every institution.
Contrast
The set (a), (b), (c) and (d) adds the universal-autonomy assertion.
The set (b), (c) and (d) omits research promotion and adds universal autonomy.
The set (a), (b) and (d) omits teacher capacity-building and adds universal autonomy.
Result
Therefore, the supported set is (a), (b) and (c).