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Promised, but missing: Five years on, National Digital University reduced to a budget item, with no funds

Finance minister Sitharaman earmarked Rs 100 crore for the university, to be headed by UGC ex-chair M Jagadesh Kumar. 5 years on, there’s neither budget, nor university

Amravati University drops Marathi novel on Covid lockdown from syllabus; ‘targeting literature,’ says author

Pawan Bhagat’s Te Pannas Divas, on 3 workers – Brahmin, Muslim, Dalit – travelling during pandemic, deemed anti-government, removed weeks before exams

JNU, TISS Mumbai, BHU: Student unions vanish from universities with elections scrapped, councils taking over

JNU disciplinary action, TISS Mumbai’s council model, and long gaps in elections at BHU, Jamia Millia Islamia, and Calcutta University show a wider shift in student representation

Students in University of Aberdeen, Mumbai, get credential exactly the same they’d get in Scotland: COO

University of Aberdeen Mumbai launches business management, computing science, data science, economics courses; MBA, MSc in AI; offers Rs 2 lakh scholarship

‘IIMC to upgrade all journalism and mass communication courses to MA degrees, phase out PG diplomas’: VC

IIMC, now a deemed-to-be university, plans to launch 3 new MA courses; offers part-time PhD, fellowships for working journalists

Rebuilding Calcutta University: VC Ashutosh Ghosh’s priorities are recruitment, fixing finances, reforms

CU Kolkata spent years headless, its finances in shambles. New VC Ashutosh Ghosh plans fixes and also new courses, academic reforms, NAAC accreditation

PARAKH’s Foundational Learning Study 2026 to cover 1 lakh Class 3 students across 10,000 schools

NCERT PARAKH’s FLN survey supports the NIPUN Bharat Mission to ensure universal foundational literacy and numeracy by Class 3

Telangana: Government Degree College Vikarabad moves out of school and into DIET campus

Osmania University’s Vikarabad college had 19 classes of students packed into 5 school rooms. Telangana assembly speaker inaugurated the new temporary campus on Friday

‘Shouldn’t open universities like shops’: Odisha higher education expands but students rue plummeting quality

Odisha has announced 4 new universities while students at Sambhalpur University, Utkal University and elsewhere face shortage of teachers, facilities

Dual degrees, faculty exchange: States bet on foreign university tie-ups, but fine print tells another story

UGC regulations ease dual, joint degrees as immigration rules, NEP accelerate foreign university pacts, but barely half of them deliver results