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Thursday, August 14, 2025
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Topic: colleges

Call researchers, final year students first — UGC issues guidelines for reopening colleges

In its latest guidelines, UGC asks institutes to extend teaching hours in a day and adhere to a six-day schedule so classes can be conducted in phases to ensure social distancing.

Andhra Pradesh to reopen schools, colleges from 2 November in phased manner

Students of classes for 9, 10, intermediate first and second year will be called on alternate days. Classes for higher secondary colleges will be held on a rotation basis.

Only UP is ready to reopen schools, other big states delay move until October-end

In ‘Unlock 5’ guidelines, home ministry has left it up to individual states & UTs to decide on re-opening schools & colleges from 15 October.

UGC now says first year classes will start in November, there will be no winter, summer breaks

UGC revises academic calendar again. To compensate for loss of academic time, it has asked colleges to teach six days a week, without any summer or winter break, until 2022.

College students’ irresponsible partying, bar visits adding to US Covid burden

Students seem to be refusing to police themselves, so even universities that are testing a lot and isolating the sick aren’t able to control the cases.

Moving to college will be lonelier and weirder than ever this year

The back-to-school rituals of US' college-bound have always entailed some drama, but they’re nothing compared with 2020, the year that Covid transformed education.

These colleges want full fees for only online classes. But students say they won’t pay

Students from GGSIPU, DTU and several other institutes are protesting against orders to make payment of full fees, saying they haven't used any campus resources.

Liberal arts universities on par with IITs, IIMs are next on Modi govt’s education plan

The final version of New Education Policy document says the liberal arts institutes will be called Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities or MERUs.

Indian universities don’t acknowledge sex, forget sexual harassment

There is a lot Indian universities can do to check sexual harassment, but they don’t

Medical education mess: CJI Mishra hears over 100 cases in 5 hours

About 50 medical education colleges had moved the apex court in the past few weeks seeking renewal of permission even though the Centre had denied it

On Camera

Asim Munir wants to be guardian of the Middle East. He’s fated to fail at home

Countering insurgency needs the Pakistan Army to demonstrate a political will that ties leaders at the centre with those in the borderlands. But it may not have the imagination.

Slashing GST on waste can unlock Rs 1.8 lakh crore, high tax hurting circular economy goals—CSE

Centre for Science and Environment in new report makes case for rationalising GST on waste material, saying most informal operators can’t afford high tax & it also hinders recycling.

India, US troops to undertake joint military exercise next month, first after Op Sindoor

21st edition of annual joint military exercise will be held from 1 to 16 September, aimed at sharing military tech, operational best practices & disaster relief coordination methods.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.