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Panel wants NTA CUET results on time, pen-paper tests; UGC recognition for Sonam Wangchuk’s HIAL

Digvijaya Singh-led panel has also asked UGC to allow HEIs with NAAC grades below A+ to launch online, distance courses and NAAC to launch binary accreditation

As IIM Guwahati takes shape, Assam Institute of Management retools itself for Northeast’s MBA mission

AIM Guwahati plans BSc data science and five-year integrated BCA-MCA courses, shifts focus to tech programmes and entrepreneurship as Assam prepares to get its first IIM

IIM Ahmedabad, Kozhikode, others see enrolment in PhD courses rise as students eye more faculty roles

Newer IIMs such as IIM Kashipur, Ranchi and Udaipur see the most expansion with significant growth in part-time ‘practice-track’ PhD courses, reveal NIRF data over 5 years

Assam Agricultural University Jorhat enrolled excess students for 5 yrs despite 41% vacant faculty posts: CAG

AAU Jorhat wrongfully excluded 44 teaching candidates, has only 12% functional equipment, spent Rs 2.8 crore on abandoned fisheries college, finds CAG

AICTE Approval Process Handbook: From 2026-27, more foreign-student seats, minor specialisation in diploma

AICTE has added an “addendum/corrigendum” to its 2024-2027 policy for technical institutions, including engineering colleges, business schools

'We refuse to be forgotten’: Students boycott classes at film school govt opened, and then abandoned

First batch of SRFTI Kolkata’s extended campus, FTII Itanagar, refuses to return for semester-2 citing non-functional studios, lack of basic infrastructure; wants time-bound action plan

ISB fees high due to quality, 50% students should get some scholarship: Dean

ISB dean speaks on new programmes, slow growth in placements and average package, the flexible curriculum and why an MBA degree will always be relevant

‘Teaching through logins’: School teachers waste time on ‘data-entry’ as apps become integral to monitoring

School attendance, mid-day meals, training, infra are tracked digitally. Data entry on apps and portals – UDISE Plus, DIKSHA, MDM, SATS – eats into teaching time

Not even 30% of central university teachers are women; 25.4% posts vacant: Education ministry data

The ministry has told Rajya Sabha that 8,320 reserved posts have been filled over 3 years; about 24% posts in the ministry itself empty

Public policy, social impact courses boom despite tepid job scene

XLRI, IIT Bombay, MDI Gurgaon offer MSc, MA, MBA courses in public policy but foreign fund cuts, market slowdown leave graduates with limited job options.