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Topic: Education

Over 33 lakh Indian students enrolled in schools with just one teacher; issue most stark in UP, Jharkhand

UDISE+ data for 2024–25 reveals a stark reality. Schools with low enrolments are now being merged to ensure optimal utilisation of educational infrastructure, say officials.

Parents’ spend on school education highest in Haryana & Manipur, lowest in Bihar—latest govt survey

Comprehensive Modular Survey reveals that Indian parents, on average, spend Rs 12,616 per child on school education each year; it also highlights gender divide in education spending.

Why Delhi HC said Modi’s degree is exempt from RTI, can’t be disclosed to ‘satisfy public curiosity’

Ruling sets aside a Central Information Commission order that allowed an examination of Delhi University records of students who completed BA in 1978, when Modi says he graduated.

Why CBSE making APAAR mandatory for board exam registration has sparked privacy debate

Automated Permanent Academic Account Registry or APAAR contains a student’s academic record from pre-primary to higher education level. It is part of NEP 2020.

UK’s University of Bristol, 3 Australian universities get UGC nod to start India campuses 

They were given Letters of Intent during an event held in Delhi to mark 5 years of NEP 2020. They will set up campuses in Noida, Greater Noida, Mumbai & Bengaluru. 

Disinformation campaigns are getting stronger. We must go beyond educating youth

Media and information literacy efforts remain fragmented. Most initiatives focus on formal education, leaving significant gaps in adult and lifelong learning.

Centre’s school education assessment flags learning gaps—Maths least favourite, govt schools lag behind

PARAKH survey, conducted for 21 lakh+ students across Class 3, 6 & 9, showed average performance in Mathematics & Language fell as students moved to higher grades. Rural-urban divide evident.

CUET-UG 2025 results announced, only 1 candidate scores 100 percentile in 4 of 5 subjects

New Delhi: One candidate has scored 100 percentile in four out of five subjects, reveal this year's CUET (Common University Entrance Test) Undergraduate results,...

Free education is mere jugglery of words. A hangover of anti-rational pre-Partition days

‘There is no such thing as free education. Money paid to teachers comes ultimately from people, as taxes if not as tuition fees,' wrote Professor Om Prakash Kahol on 1 January 1959.

SubscriberWrites: India Produces 4 million Engineers a Year. Why Are We Still Struggling with Advanced Value Engineering?

Why does a country producing more engineers than some nations' populations still rely on others for semiconductors, defence tech, and advanced industrial tools?

On Camera

Chinese memes, videos & commentaries say Modi overshadowed other leaders at SCO

On Douyin, many videos highlighted how Modi was all smiles during his China visit. Others focused on his handholding with Putin and Trump’s supposed irritation.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.