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4 years later, court calls IIT Guwahati scholar’s expulsion ‘arbitrary’; allows Vikrant Singh to complete PhD

The charges against Vikrant Singh included 'defamatory' Facebook posts on JEE Main. The court has asked him to submit an undertaking stating “he will not cause any disturbance".

Game of Thrones on Gandhi Hills: Lessons from MGAHV Wardha’s years of turmoil

Power politics intertwines with ideology, caste and sleaze to cause chaos at the quiet central university. Headless for over a year, Mahatma Gandhi Antarrashtriya Hindi Vishwavidyalaya finally has a VC

NCTE’s one-year B.Ed, M.Ed plan will dilute teacher training, produce ‘mere technicians’: Experts

NCTE move to truncate teacher training courses from two to one year a regressive move, will lead to decline in quality of preparation, say educators

Analysis: What CBSE’s holding Class 10 board exams twice a year means for schools, teachers, students

Class 10 CBSE Board Exams: Schools foresee shorter teaching time, confusion in schedules, Class 11 admissions. On the plus side, it erases the stigma of compartment exams.

Co-author of TISS report on ‘illegal’ Bangladeshi, Rohingya migrants under scanner for harassment, abuse

Tata Institute of Social Sciences assistant professor denies ‘sexual coercion’ allegations as bid to ‘malign professional, personal integrity’; steps down

NCTE to relaunch 1-year B.Ed, M.Ed with NTA-run admission test; drafts rules on syllabus

NCTE’s draft norms for Bachelor’s and Master’s in Education courses require a centralised admission test for all versions of the programme

‘Used like guinea pigs’: Sarvodaya Vidyalaya parents want IB syllabus withdrawn, write to LG

Parents connected with the 10 Sarvodaya Vidyalayas in which the AAP government had introduced an IB curriculum allege that their children are being treated like ‘guinea pigs’

NCH relaxes teacher norms for PG departments in homeopathy colleges

The rules National Commission for Homeopathy set last year resulted in colleges struggling to hire; now many of the provisions have been reversed.

IIT Kanpur Suicide: No TA-duty for PhDs, review of labs, investigation – students make 11 demands

Students make 11 demands of the IITK administration including suspension of professor, review of all labs and guidelines for a structured, sensitive response to struggling students.

‘Beyond Kota and IIT exams’: Student suicides have more than board exams, academic pressure behind them

While educational stress is a key concern, experts say family expectations, body image concerns, college admissions, and financial woes too drive student suicide crisis