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Maharashtra eases university teacher recruitment norms; academic weightage cut to 60% from 75%

Maharashtra University Recruitment: NIRF top 100 replace IITs, IISERs, IIMs in top tier for candidates’ marks; interview, teaching performances carry 40% weightage

UP Budget 2026-27: Vocational education funds up 88%; 14 new medical colleges; school outlay highest

UP Education Budget 2026-27: State announces new cancer institute in Lucknow, mental health policy in higher ed, Kasturba Gandhi Schools in every block, AI labs in ITIs

3 yrs after UGC guidelines, 80% central universities yet to appoint professors of practice, private ones lead

Just 1,841 PoP engaged in 349 higher education institutions, Tamil Nadu universities lead; UGC portal shows only 18,724 experts and 539 HEIs are registered

NMC approves record 20,098 new MBBS, PG medical seats, 777 after initial rejection

With NMC nod, PG courses grow 11.33% with 8,416 new seats – highest in 5 years; medical college add 11,682 MBBS seats despite vacancies

2 years into paramedical courses, students find themselves in vocational training; 300 protest in North Bengal

The ‘paramedical institute’ admitted students from non-science backgrounds promising paramedical diploma courses. Now, students told they’ll get ‘invalid’ vocational certificates

Vidya Pravesh: 4.2 crore students across 8.9 lakh schools covered, but numbers now falling consistently

Despite increase to 8.87 lakh schools, Vidya Pravesh student coverage dropped to 1.29 crore from 1.8 crore; MP, Mizoram, Odisha, West Bengal only states showing rising numbers

Over 7 lakh Kendriya Vidyalaya students assessed via education ministry’s TARA app, 1.46 lakh on career tool

TARA app assessed reading fluency in Hindi, English of students from Classes 3 to 8 across 1,289 KVs; Punjab leads with over 44,000 enrolments on career guidance tool

Caste on Campus: The shape of discrimination in universities and why many back UGC equity regulations

SC, ST, OBC student lives tainted by discrimination – in exams, interviews, classrooms, and from peers, teachers, university officials. It’s why they back UGC equity regulations 2026

Across Telangana’s new government medical colleges, 26 depts empty, 31 with single teachers: Doctors’ survey

The state’s GMC count has nearly doubled with National Medical Commission approving 32 more in 4 years – sharpest growth of all states; teacher shortage most acute in new medical colleges

‘No TET’: School teachers’ jobs at risk, hundreds in Delhi to rally against mandatory eligibility tests

School teachers across states, even those close to retirement, will lose jobs if they don't clear CTET or state TETs (STET). They are in Delhi to protest