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UGC’s 2026 Equity Regulations: A New Push To Tackle Caste Discrimination On Indian Campuses

UGC’s 2026 Equity Regulations: A New Push To Tackle Caste Discrimination On Indian Campuses

The UGC’s Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions Regulations, 2026 aims to curb caste-based discrimination on campuses through strict...

10.03.2026 10

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Campus Reality: Government Push To Dilute Organised Student Politics Sparks Debate At TISS

Changes to the student representation framework at TISS Mumbai, including replacing the Students’ Union and restricting political affiliations, have...

17.02.2026 10

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Revisiting 2025: How India’s Universities Were Turned Into Spaces Of Control, Not Inquiry

A review of 2025 shows mounting pressure on Indian universities, with repeated incidents of student detentions, event cancellations, faculty action...

28.01.2026 9

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Foreign Universities In India: New Islands Of Exclusion

This change is supposed to be not only a step towards integrating Indian higher education with global institutions but also an attempt to convert the...

13.12.2025 10

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Snapshot Of The State Of Higher Education Institutes In India

A total of 8863 institutions registered to participate in the rankings, and finally, 7692 institutions submitted their data in different categories...

20.11.2025 10

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Annual Report On Ranking Of Higher Education Institutions

The 2025 report is the tenth edition of this exercise. Throughout this period, the scope of rankings has been gradually broadened to include...

19.10.2025 20

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Teachers On Clock-Hour Basis Cannot Build India’s Future

For associate professors, around 65% of sanctioned posts (199 out of 307) for STs, 51% (324 out of 632) for SCs and 69% (608 out of 883) for OBCs were...

01.10.2025 20

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Hostility Towards Students: The Dismal Scenario In Institutions Of Higher Education

Clearly, increasingly and alarmingly, the faculty are seen to abuse their enormous power over students, and safety mechanisms and processes—even...

15.08.2025 20

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Higher Education In India: 28% Youth Enrolled, But Disabled Students Still Left Behind

Our institutions of higher education have no place for students with disabilities, and there is hardly any presence of foreign students....

14.06.2025 20

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Higher Education Survey: A Diversified Network Of Institutions

The survey was necessitated because while enormous changes had taken place in higher education since independence, no source gave the complete picture...

18.05.2025 10

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The Menace Of Ragging In Higher Educational Institutions

For years now, every year, unfailingly, when the new academic year begins across the country, newspapers report horrifying examples of ragging in our...

24.04.2025 10

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The Draft Regulations, 2025 Of The UGC: A Brief Review

UGC has released the new draft of the UGC (Minimum Qualifications for Appointment and Promotion of Teachers and Academic Staff in Universities and...

23.02.2025 20

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Caste And Sexual Repression In Higher Education: A Disturbing Trend

Caste-based discrimination and sexual repression persist in India's premier educational institutions, unchecked.

15.01.2025 20

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