Education

Classroom realities may send India’s robotics dreams crashing 

Classroom realities may send India’s robotics dr...

August 31, 2026

Even as India supposedly races to prepare its children for an AI and robotics-driven future, the country’s schools continue to struggle with the basic conditions needed for effective learning, mainly due to the amount allocated for education in Union and State budgets each year...

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Academic freedom in India falls to lowest level since 1900

Academic freedom in India falls to lowest level si...

August 25, 2026

India’s academic freedom has fallen to its lowest level since 1900, ranking below Pakistan, Iraq, Sudan, Syria and Yemen and placing it among the bottom 10-20 pc globally.  Academic and research freedom in Indian universities and educational institutions has fallen to its lowe...

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Stalemate continues as student protest in Jharkhand enters fourth week

Stalemate continues as student protest in Jharkhan...

August 16, 2026

The Jaipal Singh Munda Stadium in Ranchi, capital of Jharkhand, has turned into a semi-permanent camp of tents, hunger-strike beds and hand-painted placards. On Sunday, the sit-in by thousands of job aspirants against alleged irregularities in the state’s recruitment examin...

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India’s shrinking classrooms expose cracks in school education 

India’s shrinking classrooms expose cracks in sc...

August 14, 2026

Even as the Union government claims overall improvement in the education system in India, highlighting the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and claiming increased budgetary allocations and improvements in learning outcomes, its own school database shows that enrollment has c...

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46 million children out of school as India’s education spending stays below 6 pc target: UNESCO

46 million children out of school as India’s edu...

August 11, 2026

Carrying the fate of nearly 250 million children, the most in the world, India’s education system continues to struggle with persistent gaps in access, retention and learning despite its vast scale. Around 46 million children aged 6 to 17 remain out of school, while public spen...

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As Pradhan resigns, students say battle for education has just begun

As Pradhan resigns, students say battle for educat...

July 25, 2026

After over a month of maintaining a total silence on his own responsibility in fiasco of leaks of numerous examination papers of tests conducted by the Union Government, including notably the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET), Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradh...

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Class 12 On-Screen Marking (OSM) rollout exposes cracks in India’s evaluation systems

Class 12 On-Screen Marking (OSM) rollout exposes c...

June 2, 2026

The Central Board of Secondary Education’s (CBSE) abrupt introduction of the On-Screen Marking (OSM) system for Class 12 board examinations on February 9 has triggered a nationwide backlash after thousands of students reported unexplained score drops, unchecked answers and str...

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Need to ground India’s ambitions as global education hub in reality

Need to ground India’s ambitions as global educa...

March 29, 2026

Almost ever since the independence, Pune, a big city near Mumbai, has been known as the education hub of India as it houses some of the most unique and avant-garde colleges as well as centres of research, like the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, the Inter-University...

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UGC flags 32 fake universities across India

UGC flags 32 fake universities across India

March 14, 2026

As the beginning of admission cycle for higher education across India approaches, thousands of students are preparing for entrance exams, counselling and university applications. However, alongside legitimate institutions, a troubling reality persists organisations posing as univ...

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Guru Nanak College holds National Conference on Indo-Pacific maritime order

Guru Nanak College holds National Conference on In...

February 13, 2026

The Department of Defence and Strategic Studies at Guru Nanak College (Autonomous), a socially-inclusive educational institution in Chennai, organised a national conference on Evolving Indo-Pacific Maritime Order: Perspectives on Security and Stability on Thursday, bringing toget...

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