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University Grants Commission (UGC) of Pakistan, is the sole body in the country with the responsibility to ensure quality education. UGC supervises the overall functioning and the grant of funds to all the public sector universities in Pakistan. There are many regional offices of UGC all over the country. There are many inspection teams of the UGC, which inspect the institutes, and then give them the letter of recommendation or vice versa.
University of Calcutta (also known as Calcutta University), located in the city of Kolkata (previously Calcutta), India, is the first modern university in the Indian subcontinent.
As the first modern university in the Indian sub-continent the University saw its direction being steered by the first Indian vice-chancellor, Sir Gooroodas Banerjee and later by the Indian vice-chancellors Sir Ashutosh Mukherjee and his son Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee (also a vice chancellor).
On 30 January 1858, the Syndicate of the Calcutta University was constituted.For several years, afterwards the meetings of the Senate and Syndicate were held in a room of the Writer's Building.
The report observed, "The UniversityGrantsCommission (UGC) was established in 1974 by an act of Parliament for maintaining standards of education and uniform policy aimed at bringing about national unity and cohesion.
The setting up of Higher Education Commission by the cabinet to guide, support and facilitate the universities is believed to bring about a positive and effective change in the environment of higher learning institutions, besides enabling them to be more responsive to the demands of the country.
Grant of charter to private universities would be provisional on scholarship to meritorious needy students, she added.
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