UGC NET – Higher Education System MCQ

Indian National Defence University (INDU), India’s first defence university, was inaugurated on May 2013 is proposed to be located at

Indian Institute of Mass Communication is located in

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List-I                                                                                            List-II
(Institutions)                                                                             (Locations)
A. National Law Institute                                                        I. Shimla
B. Indian Institute of Advanced Studies                            II. Bhopal
C. National Judicial Academy                                            III. Hyderabad
D. National Savings Institute                                              IV. Nagpur
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Through which of the following constitutional amendments Article 21A was inserted in the constitution to provide for free and compulsory education to all children of age group between 6 and 14 years as a fundamental right?

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A. Chinmaya International Foundation                                               I. Delhi
B. The Oriental Institute                                                                       II. Baroda
C. Academy of Sanskrit Research                                                      III. Melkote (Karnataka)
D. Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan                                                IV. Ernakulum

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Which of the following was the first private institution to be granted the status of a deemed university in 1976?

Distance Education Council set up the Arjun Singh Centre for Distance and Open Learning in the year 2002 in

The first inter university centre which was established by UGC in 1984 is

The largest university in the world in terms of student enrolment is

Which of the following agency or institution proposed introduction of India Education Index (IEI) for ranking institutes based on academic, research, performance, and other parameters?

University Education Commission recommended the setting up of UGC on the lines of University Grants Commission of

Who was the chairman of University Education Commission set up in 1948?

Mahila Samakhya was born out of the New Education Policy of 1986 which stressed the need for an intervention to create gender equality through women’s education. It was launched in the year

PACER is the acronym for

The main objective of ‘National Mission on Teachers and Training’ is to improve

The foundation training of selected IAS officers is conducted at

Name of the research station on Antarctic set up by India is

SITE means

Which of the following institutions have been set up by the MHRD?

Which of the following satellite channel was launched on 26 January, 2003 for the spread of technical growth and development of distance education in India?

There is a proposal to establish innovation universities aiming at world class standards. The proposed number of such institutions is

Who among the following was the first Education Minister of independent India?

Aligarh Muslim University was set up in the year

In which year was the NBA set up?

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(Institutions)                                                                                (Locations)
A. Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Centre                          I. Thiruvananthapuram
B. Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology                      II. Hyderabad
C. Indian Space Research Organization                               III. Bengaluru
D. The Energy and Resources Institute                                IV. New Delhi

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The first virtual university of India came up in
[December 2013]

Networking of libraries through electronic media is called [June 2007]

The number of universities at the time of independence was

The course content of professional degree emphasizes on

The major concept underlying distance education is

In which of the following countries, the Humboldtian Concept of University Education originated?

The universities with NAAC ‘A’ Grade and 10 years of standing can get financial support from UGC for innovative teaching or educational programmes; these universities are known as

The concept of Meta University was first propounded by

The concept of a countrywide network for higher education that would allow students the flexibility to design their own curriculum and combine subjects of their choice is basically of

The National Knowledge Commission, a high level advisory body to Prime Minister of India, with the objective of transforming India into a knowledge society was set up in the year

The rank of India in terms of enrolment in higher education institutions is

The first university in India to start correspondence course was

The first open university in India was

Which of the following personalities was the first chairman of UGC?

Government has set a target to increase the gross enrolment ratio in higher education to 30% by the year

The Ministry of Human Resource Development was created in the year

The ex-officio chairperson of Distance Education Council (DEC) is

The apex body for open and distance learning (ODL) system in the country is

IGNOU was set up in the year

CABE was set up in the year

Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya is located at

Faculty Improvement Programme of UGC aims at

Which of the following universities in India has Prime Minister as its chancellor?

UGC gets its funding from

Under which of the following constitutional amendments, education was transferred to the concurrent list?

Which of the following regulatory bodies does not enjoy a statutory status as a professional body?

Which of the following days is celebrated as National Education Day?

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology is located in

Which one of the following Councils has been disbanded in 2013?

The Vikram Sarabhai Space Research Centre is located at

The South Asian University is located at

Which of the following project(s) is/are funded by external agencies?

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A. National Council of Rural Institutes                                      I New Delhi
B Indian Council of Historical Research                                  II Hyderabad
C Indian Council of Philosophical Research                           III Shimla
D Indian Institute of Advanced Study                                      IV Bangalore

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Which of the following languages was assigned the status of classical language in 2013?

Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha is located in

The number of Central Universities in India is

Which of the following universities has been assigned the status of central university in 2013?

The name of pilot project to provide education through massive satellite connectivity up to grass-root level is

Which of the following is a specialized agency of UN to deal with copyright and other intellectual property rights?

In which of the following year National Commission for Minorities Educational Institutions (NCMI) was set up

Which article of the constitution provides for the rights of minorities to establish and administer the institutions of their choice?

The first Committee to be constituted after independence by the Government of India on Women’s Education was

Which of the following institutes is/are funded by central government?

Apart from few short-term programmes, academic staff colleges set up for teachers’ training basically offer

In order to achieve the 12th Five Year Plan’s Inclusive and Qualitative Expansion of Higher Education, the number of proposed women universities is

According to Vision Paper of 12th Five Year Plan, the targeted staff strength (in terms of teacher–student ratio) envisaged for social sciences, humanities, management and arts subjects in higher education courses is

According to Vision Paper of 12th Five Year Plan, the targeted staff strength (in terms of teacher–student ratio) envisaged for science and technology in higher education is

The purpose of National Education Policy is

Which of the following days is celebrated as National Education Day?

In which of the following years ‘The National Policy of Education’ was revised and a ‘Programme of Action’ was also attached to it?

The National Board of Accreditation (NBA) was set up in the year 1987 by

Which of the following agencies or institutions set up the Accreditation Board (AB)?

The number of representatives of Central Government in UGC is

The title of the Yashpal Committee Report (1993) is

NUEPA is mainly concerned with

National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is headquartered in

Which of the following organizations set up the National Assessment and Accreditation Council?

National Council of Educational Research and Training was established in

The main aim of National Council for Teacher Education is

National literacy mission was established in

API stands for

EHEI stands for

As envisaged in the 12th Five Year Plan, under the concept of College Cluster Universities, a minimum number of colleges in the vicinity of a city or district can establish a university. What is the minimum number of such colleges?

Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) is the only official Commonwealth agency located outside Britain. It is located in

Institute of National Importance is an institution in higher education which serves as a pivotal player in developing highly skilled personnel within the specified region of the country or state. This status can be conferred upon them by

According to Times Higher Education’s research findings to rank the world’s higher educational institutions, which of the following educational has top rank in India?

The state with most deemed universities is

The state with most universities is

Which of the following pairs of authorities are at the top of hierarchy in the case of a Central University?

The university that telecasts interactive educational programmes through its own channel is [June 2007]

Which of the following agencies provide funding to Indira Gandhi National Open University?

Universities having central campus for imparting education are called  [June 2007]

Which among the following constitute the majority of enrolments within the university system?

Which among the following constitute the majority of institutions within the university system?

How many universities were set up under Central Universities Act, 2009?

Which of the following authorities is not empowered to bring a university into existence?

In which year was the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) originally set up?

Which of the following institution or organization publishes Universities Handbook?

Which of the following states has the maximum number of central universities?

Which of the following percentage figures was recommended by both Kothari Commission and National Policy that should be spent on education (1986)?

Which of the following personalities headed the committee recommended setting up of 1500 universities so as to achieve the target gross enrolment of 30%?

Chairman of UGC committee appointed in 1969 for the purpose of administrative legislation of the universities was

Which of the following committees recommended the setting up of National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) for prescribed standards of academic quality and defining policies for advancement of knowledge in higher educational institutions?

A committee was set up in 1990 to review NPE (1986). Its report titled as ‘Towards an Enlightened and Humane Society’ stated that system of higher education encourages memorization of facts and regurgitation rather than creativity. The head of the committee was

National knowledge commission (NKC) was headed by

The committee set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development which recommended autonomy of IITs was headed by

Which of the following committees recommended the spending of `500 crores to be spent on research in basic sciences every year by UGC every year?

The following commissions were set up by the government or its agencies after independence. Arrange the following in a chronological order (in terms of their occurrence).
I University Education Commission
II Secondary Education Commission
III Education Commission
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National committee on 10 + 2 + 3 education structure set up in 1972 was headed by

Which of the following commission’s report is titled as education and national development report?

Which of the following commissions recommended setting up UGC and is also known as the University Education Commission?

Which of the following is a precursor to 10 + 2 + 3?

Which of the following is regarded as the first policy measure regarding higher education in India?

Which of the following is known as Calcutta University Commission?

Inter University Board was set up in 1925 to promote university activities, by sharing information and cooperation in the field of education, culture, sports and allied areas. Now, it is known as

It is said that the present higher education system has its origin in Mountstuart Elphinstone’s minutes, which stressed upon the need for establishing schools for teaching English and European sciences. This reported was presented in the year

Which section of the UGC Act provides for the promotion and coordination of university education and for the maintenance of standards of teaching, examination, and research?

The report of central advisory board of education on post war educational development in India is also termed as

Which of the following institution was set up in 1945 to look after the functioning of three Central Universities of Aligarh, Banaras and Delhi?

The University of Allahabad was founded in the year

In which of the following years, Presidency Universities of Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras were set up following the recommendations of Woods’ dispatch?

Which of the following documents is termed as the Magna Carta of English education in India?

Which of the following agencies or organizations was constitutionally assigned the task of coordination and determination of standards of institutions in higher education?

Educational TV was first introduced in India in the year

CHEER stands for

‘Destiny of India is being shaped in her classroom’. This is stated in

Which of the following agency put forward the concept of proactive university?

The name of the plan to increase enrolment in the higher education institutions is

The idea of Four Pillars of Education was suggested by

Which of the following is the regulator of higher education?

The tertiary education includes

The Government established the University Grants Commission by an act of Parliament in the year
[June 2007]

The main governing body at the tertiary level of education in India is