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India’s higher education sector expanded sharply over the past decade, with more universities, colleges, students and teachers. Women and disadvantaged communities recorded stronger participation, while placements and salaries improved. SBI Research urged higher public spending, research investment, vocational training and examination reforms

Academic freedom in India is “severely restricted”, according to Scholars at Risk’s ‘Free to Think 2026’ report. It cited growing government influence over higher education, restrictions on student expression, protests and cases involving faculty members, while India’s academic freedom score declined sharply

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said India added nearly 650 universities over the past decade and more than doubled medical colleges since 2014. He highlighted the new education policy, foreign universities, Atal Tinkering Labs and growing opportunities for young entrepreneurs and startups

Educational institutions in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut and Ghaziabad will remain closed till August 12 due to heavy Kanwar Yatra movement. Authorities cited student safety and traffic management, while exempting examinations already scheduled by schools, colleges and universities

Only 55 per cent of universities participated in the NIRF rankings, while 56 per cent introduced four-year undergraduate programmes, according to the AISHE 2023-24 report. Higher education enrolment rose to nearly 4.5 crore, reflecting gradual implementation of the National Education Policy

Despite nearly two years in power, the Telangana Congress government has failed to constitute full-fledged Executive Councils (ECs) for the State universities. Except for the Kakatiya University, no State conventional and technical university has a full-fledged EC.

IISc Bengaluru has bagged the second spot in the “overall” category followed by IIT Bombay while IIT Delhi, which was at the third spot last year in the category, has slipped to the fourth position.

Many universities in the US have expanded their STEM offerings, created new STEM programs, and invested in STEM research and infrastructure

The UoH's best performance is in Sociology and English Language & Literature, biological sciences, chemistry subjects

The Governor’s act of holding Common Recruitment Board Bill is purely political and will only hamper students’ future

The United States' higher education system is a complex and diverse landscape, comprising various types of institutions tailored to meet the needs of students and fields of study.

In colonial era, religious denominations set up colleges to train ministers, religious leaders

DEI initiatives help support international students

Countries like UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others have become go-to destination for graduate courses.

India spends just about 0.7% of its GDP on research, compared with over 2% by China.

As per UGC (Setting up and Operation of Campuses of Foreign Higher Educational Institutions in India) Draft Regulations, 2023, the foreign universities wishing to set up their campuses in India should have been ranked within top 500 of over/subject-wise global rankings.

The Telangana State Council of Higher Education (TSCHE) and Commissionerate of Collegiate Education have decided to conduct a comprehensive study on the evaluation process being implemented in higher education and entrusted the work to the ISB, Hyderabad.

New Delhi: The University Grant Commission (UGC) has approved the draft guidelines for engaging ‘Professor of Practice’ in Universities and colleges, officials said on Tuesday. The decision came after the 560th meeting of the UGC and will be soon made public for feedback by stakeholders. The decision was taken as a measure to promote the […]

Hyderabad: Higher educational institutions in Telangana will be given rankings based on their performance in different parameters soon. To start with, the rankings of the universities and engineering, pharmacy, and degree colleges will be released followed by other professional colleges in a phased manner. The idea is to encourage institutions to go for rankings besides […]

Hyderabad: The State government has constituted a common board for centralized recruitment of teaching and non-teaching staff posts in State universities except for the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences. The Higher Education department on Thursday issued an order constituting the board which will be headed by the Telangana State Council of Higher Education […]