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Sunday, September 14, 2025
TopicHigher education

Topic: higher education

Revise Higher Education Financing Agency, says parliamentary panel as loan scheme misses target by over 50%

HEFA was supposed to fund projects worth Rs 1 lakh crore by 2022. However, as on 31 December 2022, projects worth Rs 46,700.03 crore had been approved, according to parliamentary panel.

11,050 teaching posts vacant in central higher education institutes — DU, IIT-Kharagpur top list

Ministry of Education data in Rajya Sabha shows University of Delhi has 792 teaching positions lying vacant, IIT-Kharagpur has 819, and IIM-Tiruchirappalli has 51. 

How successful IIT, IIM grads are teaming up to launch universities — ‘collective philanthropy’

Hyderabad's Indian School of Business was 1st higher education institution set up through collective philanthropy, followed by Ashoka in Sonepat, Krea in Sricity & Plaksha in Mohali.

There’s a big gap between higher education and jobs. Here’s an alternative learning model

Classical higher education has many attributes that must be preserved. But academic leadership needs to come up with some answers first.

19% jump in Indian students studying in US in 2021-22, finds Open Doors report

Indian students heading to the US are likely to surpass China in 2022-23, with 82,000 visas issued between June and August this year — the highest among all countries.

Phase out English intelligently. But prepare Indian languages for the difficult task first

Thanks to English, we have produced an elite that is culturally illiterate and devoid of creativity.

CUET prioritises learning by rote, skimming texts. Knowledge cannot be just skin-deep

Campus Voice is an initiative by ThePrint where young Indians get an opportunity to express their opinions on a prevalent issue.

Can’t go to US college? Turkey wants you — here’s what it can & can’t offer Indian students

Although cheap tuition and job opportunities in Europe work in its favour, education consultants say Turkey's low world rankings for higher education could be a drawback.

Practice makes perfect? How you can be a professor with just your work experience

Professionals with 15 years of experience may be initially hired in universities and colleges for up to one year and their term can later be extended to a maximum of 4 years, says UGC.

Pakistan’s universities are living in past glories. Only Aladdin’s lamp can save them now

There's a degenerative cycle behind corruption and incompetence in Pakistan's universities. History has some answers.

On Camera

Russian-style socialism dominated Nehru’s imagination. It was disastrous

It is necessary to break the spell of socialist dogma on the imagination of those attracted by its Utopia as the only scientific way of progress, wrote MA Venkatarao in 1963.

What’s behind bond yields’ logic-defying spike? The market’s concern over the future

While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.

Navy gets first Tata-made Spanish 3D surveillance radar for its warships, 19 more to come

It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.

Gen Zs have taken down the Nepal regime. Here’s why this will never happen in India

To be truly functional and durable, even eternal, a state doesn’t just need a leader, a party or an ideology. It needs functional and robust institutions.