{"id":28758,"date":"2024-12-15T10:25:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T04:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=28758"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:53:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:23:22","slug":"tata-institute-of-social-sciences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tata-institute-of-social-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>multi-campus, public funded research university in Mumbai<\/strong>, India.<\/li>\n<li>TISS is <strong>Asia&#8217;s oldest institute for professional social work education<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>founded in 1936<\/strong> in the then Bombay Presidency of British India a<strong>s the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Wor<\/strong>k by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1944,<\/strong> it was <strong>renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1964,<\/strong> TISS was <strong>declared Deemed to be a University under<\/strong> Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (<strong>UGC<\/strong>), 1956.<\/li>\n<li>TISS&#8217;s <strong>academic programs focus on the Social Sciences<\/strong> and offer doctoral degrees in Management and Labour Studies, Disaster Studies, Development Studies, Education, Gender Studies, Health Studies, Law, Media and Cultural Studies, Public Policy, Rural Development and Social Work.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Since its inception, TISS has <strong>had a focus on field activities,<\/strong> including in responding to disasters such as the Partition of India, the Bhopal disaster and Uttarakhand floods.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is the University Grants Commission Act (UGC)?<\/h3>\n<p>The University Grants Commission (UGC) came into existence on 28th December, 1953 and became a statutory Organization of the Government of India by an Act of Parliament in 1956, for the coordination,determination and maintenance of standards of teaching, examination and research in university education.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/mumbai\/selection-committee-to-interview-10-shortlisted-candidates-for-tiss-vice-chancellor-post\/article68985472.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Selection Committee to interview 10 shortlisted candidates for TISS Vice-Chancellor post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tata Institute of Social Sciences is a multi-campus, public funded research university in Mumbai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28759,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}