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Union Budget 2021: School education budget cut by close to Rs 5,000 crore

Budget 2021: Major schemes such as Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan have seen funds cut after the 2020-21 revised estimates saw amounts reduced.

Union Budget 2021: Higher education outlay drops by over Rs 1,000 crore

Budget 2021: Overall, the education ministry is facing cuts to the tune of Rs 6,000 crore.

Union Budget 2021: Centre’s education infra loan project gets just Rs 1 cr

Budget 2021 has given the Centre's ambitious higher education funding reform project, HEFA, just Rs 1 crore.

Budget 2021: HECI, ‘umbrella structure’ of institutions in 9 cities

Union Budget 2021: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has also announced Rs 50,000 crore for five years for the National Research Foundation

Budget 2021: 15,000 schools to be strengthened for NEP 2020

Union Budget 2021 has allocated funds for 750 Eklavya Model Residential Schools in tribal areas.

Budget 2021: Medical students, teachers demand emergency fund

Union Budget 2021: Students, teachers of medicine, at the forefront of battling COVID-19, demand an emergency fund for medical colleges.

Centre planning steps to launch virtual universities: Pokhriyal

Education minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ has also suggested having nodal persons in every ministry involved in implementing NEP 2020.

Budget 2021: What higher educational institutions hope to see in it

Expectation from Budget 2021: Educational institutions hope for increased public funding in education in general, digital infrastructure and research

Padma Awards 2021: 26 win Padma Shri for 'literature and education'

Padma Awards 2021: The list includes at least two former vice-chancellors.

The Week In Education: Reopening schools, board exams, budget

This week, the UGC released its draft regulations for the academic bank of credit, proposed by the NEP 2020.