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UGC faculty recruitment rules: The new regulations are silent on leave, teaching days and work-load distribution of teachers. Revised guidelines for teaching posts at HEIs here.
Education ministry’s UDISE Plus 2023-24 report also shows there are close to 13,000 schools with no students but employing over 31,000 teachers between them.
The latest UDISEPlus reports show sharp drops in enrolment and total count of schools. Part of it could be due to the new approach to data collection, correcting previous ‘over-reporting’ but no explanation is provided by education ministry.
West Bengal’s decision to split academic year for Classes 1 to 5 into two terms, despite teacher crunch, raises questions about learning gaps, implementation challenges
After a detection tool flagged 88% of his exam as AI-generated, Kaustubh Shakkarwar sued Jindal Global Law School over allegations of plagiarism and sought rules for AI in academia.
The education ministry has published UDISE Plus data for 2023-24 and 2022-23 together; the new report, in line with NEP 2020, shows enrolment drop for SC, ST, OBC, minority children.
Study Abroad: New visa rules, higher costs, and enrollment caps in destinations like US and Canada, mark significant changes in education policies for international students
Despite space constraints, MNLU Mumbai expands beyond BA LLB to offer specialised LLM courses with SEBI and BSE; plans courses in public health, environmental law
CBSE alleges international-board schools violate RTE Act, other state, UG regulations. The AIU grants equivalence to boards like IB, IGCSE for higher education admissions and employment.
The new rules allow schools to make children repeat classes but says ‘no child shall be expelled’ till Class 8. Change comes 5 years after the RTE Act was amended.
