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VBSA Bill: Parliamentary committee meeting to adopt draft report cancelled without explanation; no new date

The JPC for VBSA Bill was to adopt its report on July 20, day-one of the monsoon session of parliament. As per sources, NDA alliance members have objected

NMC: No ‘routine’ queries on teacher eligibility; PGMEB to consider ‘exceptional cases’ for Rs 25,000 fee

National Medical Commission asks medical colleges to handle ‘routine cases’ as its faculty regulations (MIQF) are detailed. The PGMEB will not issue ‘eligibility certificates’

VBSA Bill: Exemption to IITs ‘not desirable’; scrap deemed-university tag, plan separate funding, says panel

The JPC on VBSA Bill wants more representation to states, UGC’s bar on government officials serving as chair; education ministry responses suggest it will hold the purse strings

VBSA Bill: Panel flags excessive central control; recommends safeguards for HEIs, timely filling of vacancies

Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill 2025 proposes an overhaul of India's higher-education sector by dissolving the UGC framework, AICTE, and NCTE to create a single regulatory commission

NMC drafts rules to sideline states on medical college approvals, gets tougher on infrastructure norms

NMC rules make fully-built medical college and hospital must before approval, opens doors to for-profit firms; experts say move could help pvt colleges cluster in profitable areas

VBSA Bill: Joint Parliamentary Committee to finalise, adopt draft report on July 17

The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill seeks to set up a higher education regulator replacing UGC, AICTE, NCTE. It is expected in the monsoon session of parliament

NCAHP push for uniform allied healthcare education slowed by missing state councils, implementation gaps

Uncooperative states, doctors, funding doubts, even degree and diploma course names complicate NCAHP’s efforts to standardise allied and healthcare programmes

'Diagnosed with SLD by accident’: Adults fighting ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia have neither measure nor relief

Low awareness means many living with specific learning disorders discover their conditions as adults. India has nothing for them – neither tools to assess, nor support

Maharashtra to bring bill to regulate private coaching classes, says school education minister

Maharashtra Higher and Technical Education Minister Chandrakant Patil said schools, colleges and universities have been given a structured roadmap to implement the new policy.

AISHE Report: SC, ST faculty at just 10% and 3%, women drop from 44% at entry level to 27% at professor rank

Reserved faculty posts largely vacant despite mandated SC, ST quotas; just 18% women professors at IITs, NITs, shows education ministry’s AISHE 2023-24 data