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Wednesday, August 6, 2025
TopicHigher education

Topic: higher education

Tepid response to AAP’s higher education loan scheme, only 19 apply this year

Rajgopal Singh -
The scheme, one of Kejriwal’s prominent poll promises, has seen a mixed response in the four years of AAP rule.

Why middle-aged entrepreneurs are better than young ones

Sukanlaya Sawang -
The probability of success increases once people reach 25, then performance seems steady among people aged between 25 and 35.

St Stephen’s College to head the list as govt pushes to grant autonomy to 130 institutions

Kritika Sharma -
India has 868 higher education institutions, and the plan is to grant autonomy to 15%. A list of 62, including JNU & BHU, was released last month.

India’s central universities have modern sensibilities, but are also deeply conservative

Devesh Kapur -
The extreme degree of centralisation in the UGC system that has grown 60-fold since 1950 has had negative effects on the quality of higher education in India.

After directors’ protest, IIM boards will now need two-thirds majority to remove them

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
Committee to frame the rules of the new IIM Act decides against granting the directors’ demand to give the govt a say in their removal.

Finally, some good news from India’s higher education sector

ThePrint Team -
Girls account for just under half of the total enrolment in higher education, while the numbers for SCs, STs, Muslims and other minorities are rising.

IIT-Bombay jumps into top 10 of BRICS university rankings, IISC Bangalore falls four spots

Sabah Gurmat -
QS rankings gives greater weight to universities with focus on hard-sciences, Chinese universities emerge on top again.

Encouraging signs for economy: India ranks 40th in Global Competitiveness Index

Priyamvada Grover -
India is the top-ranked economy in South Asia, 3rd among BRICS countries, and has improved in infrastructure, higher education, and labour market efficiency.
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New Delhi: While the Indian government has made a measured response to the 25 percent trade tariff imposed by Donald Trump, many in the BJP...

Defence

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National Interest

Pakistan, Dhaka have played Washington well. Back home, Modi ecosystem has an inner conflict

Shekhar Gupta -
To protect ourselves from Trumpian diplomacy, first we must introspect the bipolarity within our establishment discourse.

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