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Saturday, January 3, 2026
TopicHigher education

Topic: higher education

SubscriberWrites: Crisis in Indian higher education. Rethinking research and publication pressures

India's higher education faces a critical crisis fueled by excessive research demands and publication pressures. It's time to prioritize quality learning over quantity in academia.

The promise of Ambedkar University Delhi is in tatters. Professors are quitting & suing

Ambedkar University Delhi has thrived, stagnated, and now declined. Staff are voting with their feet.

University of Southampton has 10-yr plan for Gurugram campus. ‘Lower fee than if students go to UK’

Campus to open in Gurugram next year, website to be launched this October with details on admission process & scholarships. University will take in 150-200 students in the first year.

Dress code in works for state-run colleges in MP, Oppn asks what about use of ‘hijab, kada & kalava’

Oppn terms it tactic to divert from core issues, while others welcome move while adding it should be followed by measures to improve quality of education in state-run colleges.

Smart classrooms, AI tools, e-libraries — how higher education in Odisha govt schools is levelling up

Inititiative's goal is to modernise 8,679 high schools in eastern state. Rural areas, were electrictiy supply is not steady as in cities, are were it faces challenges.

US, UK, Canada & Australia top study destinations for Indian students, shows Immigration Bureau data

Other sought-after destinations include Germany & Russia, among others. However, many countries like Australia, Canada & UK have introduced visa restrictions for students in past yr.

Mouldy walls, ‘delayed classes’, falling rank — crisis at Delhi govt’s Ambedkar University

Ambedkar University was set up in 2008 by Delhi govt to focus on research in social sciences & humanities. Fifteen years later, grave questions surround its functioning.

Which class did you teach, how many students came? Bihar govt order to keep tabs on college teachers

Teachers will now have to fill out forms with details of classes they taught. There is a general complaint among college students that teachers don't complete syllabus, says official.

Women occupying permanent faculty positions in higher education institutions up by 61%, govt tells LS

Number of female PhD candidates has also increased to 95,088 in 2020-21 from 59,242 in 2016-17, Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan tells Lok Sabha, credits it to UGC initiatives.

SubscriberWrites: Time to revisit governance of state universities

it is worthwhile to reflect back on the issue and ensure a more satisfactory governance at state-level universities, much required for raising the standards of higher education.

On Camera

Indian bureaucracy should be given incentives and rewards: MH Mody

Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.

India’s urban co-op banks are turning the page—crisis to cautious revival, one metric at a time

With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.

Greece looking at TATA’s WhAP infantry combat vehicle for army procurement

If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.