Terming it as a sensitive issue, the Supreme Court on Friday said it will devise an effective mechanism to combat caste-based discrimination in educational institutions in the country. IMAGE: A......
'Till a few years ago, girls wouldn't take an autorickshaw alone. Now, things have improved.' IMAGE: Delhi Chief Minister Atishi holds a roadshow in Hisar, October 3, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo......
Terming higher education a 'sick child', Human Resources Development Minister Arjun Singh on Wednesday lamented it was not serving the cause of young people and asked vice-chancellors to work on a......
'Providing funds and autonomy to a few institutions that may not have the intent to excel must not become a case of trying to feed those who are not hungry and starving those who are famished,'......
'Everything will be decided by the Centre.''Universities will have no autonomy to start a new course or introduce a new syllabus.' IMAGE: With the Higher Education Commission of India Act 2018,......
Private and foreign corporate investment may soon get to flow into Indian higher education with the government considering a move to reform policy that hinders such financing. Currently, it is......
Days after Congress president Sonia Gandhi said that she personally favoured private sector participation in education, a Group of Ministers on Tuesday cleared a proposed legislation that will......
University Grants Commission Chairman Sukhadeo Thorat talks on the state of higher education in the country. The Eleventh Five-Year Plan aims at increasing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in......
'The government should come back as a job creator as it did in the 1960s and the 1970s.' Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com According to the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE),......
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's goal of making India a high-income economy by 2047 is unlikely to be achieved, but the country should become an upper middle-income nation by then, Financial Times......