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Nikita Farhin chose to fund her education in Australia with a study-abroad loan rather than rely on her parents. She is pursuing a dual-degree in business analytics and also holds a scholarship
The new regulations for the undergraduate Homeopathy degree course add Biotechnology to the list of subjects, increase emphasis on core subjects and change evaluation processes.
New UGC regulations will ‘dilute quality’, create scope for bias, curb university autonomy, allow privatisation, say teachers. What the draft rules say and the likely impact.
UGC’s proposed changes in teacher recruitment norms will lead to exploitation and job insecurity; affect quality of education and career growth, feel teachers
UGC faculty recruitment rules: The new regulations are silent on leave, teaching days and work-load distribution of teachers. Revised guidelines for teaching posts at HEIs here.
Education ministry’s UDISE Plus 2023-24 report also shows there are close to 13,000 schools with no students but employing over 31,000 teachers between them.
The latest UDISEPlus reports show sharp drops in enrolment and total count of schools. Part of it could be due to the new approach to data collection, correcting previous ‘over-reporting’ but no explanation is provided by education ministry.
West Bengal’s decision to split academic year for Classes 1 to 5 into two terms, despite teacher crunch, raises questions about learning gaps, implementation challenges
After a detection tool flagged 88% of his exam as AI-generated, Kaustubh Shakkarwar sued Jindal Global Law School over allegations of plagiarism and sought rules for AI in academia.
The education ministry has published UDISE Plus data for 2023-24 and 2022-23 together; the new report, in line with NEP 2020, shows enrolment drop for SC, ST, OBC, minority children.
