Education

MBA and Law entrance exams redefine India’s graduate testing season

MBA and Law entrance exams redefine India’s grad...

October 31, 2025

With major competitive exams like CAT, XAT, NMAT, and the All India Bar Exam fast approaching, coaching centres and aspirants across India are feeling the pressure. These entrance tests are critical gateways to coveted MBA programs and legal careers and their evolving formats ref...

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Chevening Scholarship: India’s gateway to global leadership and local impact

Chevening Scholarship: India’s gateway to gl...

October 27, 2025

For most Indian students, the dream of pursuing higher education abroad is driven by the promise of global exposure, better academic opportunities and improved career prospects abroad. However, financial barriers often come in the way. Scholarships like the Chevening Scholarship ...

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Teacher training and retention in India: Balancing tech advances and burnouts

Teacher training and retention in India: Balancing...

October 25, 2025

One of the biggest challenges, of the many that India faces in education sector, is the quality of its teachers, especially in terms of their continuous training and upgrading of their skills. Teachers also face issues of immense workload and responsibilities that go beyond teach...

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Missing placement cells in Kashmir universities undermine job prospects for students

Missing placement cells in Kashmir universities un...

September 19, 2025

In recent years, a worrying trend has emerged in most university departments across Kashmir that are struggling to fill postgraduate seats. If this persists, some faculties could be forced to shut down. In 2023, at the University of Kashmir’s main campus in Hazratbal, Srinagar,...

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Foreign university campuses in India reshape student choices and standards

Foreign university campuses in India reshape stude...

September 17, 2025

Over the past year, a growing number of foreign universities have begun establishing campuses in India, marking a significant shift in the country’s higher education landscape. This trend, facilitated by policy changes under India’s National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, offer...

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Community service projects by students improve lives, but momentum often fades

Community service projects by students improve liv...

August 20, 2025

Community service projects are organised efforts aimed at improving the well-being of neighbourhoods by addressing pressing social issues such as hunger, environmental degradation, education gaps and healthcare shortcomings. Typically led by local volunteers, schools and communit...

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CII, EHL launch global diploma aligned to India’s NSQF

CII, EHL launch global diploma aligned to India’...

August 14, 2025

In a landmark development for vocational education in India, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and EHL Hospitality Business School, Switzerland, formally launched the Vocational Education & Training (VET) by EHL Diploma (Advance) under the National Skill Qualificatio...

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Between facts and politics: The new NCERT history controversy

Between facts and politics: The new NCERT history ...

August 8, 2025

The latest revision of NCERT’s Class VIII Social Science textbook has ignited intense debate across academic and political circles. Released in 2025 under the framework of the New Education Policy (NEP) and the National Curriculum Framework for School Education (NCF-SE), the ne...

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Broken at the base: India’s schools are failing their youngest learners

Broken at the base: India’s schools are failing ...

July 28, 2025

On July 1, 2025, India received a stark reality check from its classrooms. The country’s top educational body, National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT), released results of its survey, Performance Assessment, Review, and Analysis of Knowledge for Holistic ...

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End of summer break: Students return to school after two months

End of summer break: Students return to school aft...

July 13, 2025

“I am excited to see my friends again, but I am also a little nervous about catching up with schedule after a long break,” Aarav Sharma, a Grade VII student in New Delhi, tells Media India Group, as he packs his bag for the first day back after a two-month break. Across the c...

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