Pritha Roy Choudhury
Pritha Roy Choudhury is a special correspondent and covers overseas education for the news website and magazine. She writes on the aspirations and experiences of the lakhs of students who leave India to study abroad each year. She writes on changing visa and other policies of study-abroad destinations, living and working abroad, financing foreign education, popular programmes, scholarships, trends and more. Based in Kolkata, she also covers education and institutions in and around West Bengal. Her previous stints included work with a multimedia news agency and a citizen reporting initiative. She can be reached at pritha.roychoudhury@careers360.com. On X,, she is @pritharoyc
Latest From Pritha Roy Choudhury
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So far, International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore has had only postgraduate (MTech) and research programmes.
Of the 10 new NITs established in 2010, Meghalaya and Manipur have already made their way to the top 100. Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim to soon catch up.
2024 Election: School, college teachers are a large part of polling staff and schools and some colleges serve as polling stations.
S Sundar is implementing reforms, increasing NIT Mizoram’s contact with foreign institutions and hoping to shift to the permanent campus by 2026.
Easy availability of loans, scholarships and a stable post-programme life are factors driving more Indian students to go for higher education abroad
VC of ICFAI University, Tripura, talks about NEP 2020, its new course structure, programmes offered, placements and more during an interview.
Baba Saheb Ambedkar Education University cancelled affiliation of 253 private teacher training colleges for breaching NCTE regulations.
Caught in the West Bengal-Raj Bhavan tussle and the teachers’ recruitment scam, DHU has gone without a permanent VC for over three years.
North-Eastern Hill University (NEHU) colleges are dealing with the burden of implementing NEP in a system without enough teachers, books, classrooms
