As first-generation learners seek to crowdfund fees for Western universities, help pours in

With scholarships difficult to come by, Dalit and Muslim students admitted to foreign institutions are finding financial support online.

Akanksha Mishra

· Jun 16, 2021 · 07:30 am

Centre scraps order on seeking permission for online seminars related to India’s ‘internal matters’

The order was taken back reportedly after backlash from scientists.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 24, 2021 · 11:24 pm

Centre says it will modify new webinar rules for universities amid backlash from academic world

In an order issued in January, the Centre said all public universities will require government permission to hold online sessions on India’s ‘internal matters’.

Scroll Staff

· Feb 22, 2021 · 11:45 am

State officials now need Centre’s permission to attend online seminars on India’s ‘internal matters’

The names of all participants in virtual seminars will have to be approved in advance by the government, the Ministry of Education said.

Scroll Staff

· Jan 31, 2021 · 11:42 am

On Teachers Day, a conversation in my head with Premchand on keeping the torch of learning blazing

A Delhi University professor discusses the meaning of a real education.

Apoorvanand

· Sep 05, 2020 · 06:30 am

Cuts in India’s education budget have meant fewer scholarships for students from marginalised groups

In charts: An analysis of pre-matric and post-matric scholarships disbursed from 2015-’16 and 2019-’20.

Protiva Kundu, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 31, 2020 · 01:30 pm

Amendment scrapping no detention policy will weaken the entire Right to Education Act, say experts

The Lok Sabha passed the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017 on Wednesday.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Jul 20, 2018 · 09:00 am

In Gujarat’s isolated Rann of Kutch, ‘tent schools’ offer hope to children of Agariya salt workers

But they are not getting enough government support.

Anjali Mody

· Apr 21, 2018 · 09:00 am

In South Sudan’s cattle camps, mobile schools are introducing children to formal education

Aid agencies are starting schools in the remote settlements amid fears that the latest civil war will create another ‘lost generation’ of uneducated adults.

Stefanie Glinski, Thomson Reuters Foundation

· Mar 28, 2018 · 11:30 pm

Kerala Islamic preacher held for spreading hate through schools says others used the same textbook

MM Akbar’s arrest came a month after the state shut down one of his Peace Schools over ‘objectionable content’ in a textbook.

TA Ameerudheen

· Mar 03, 2018 · 06:30 am

Uttar Pradesh government is itself responsible for the cheating racket it is trying to fix

With just 2,152 government secondary schools, the state has left exams in the hands of an unregulated private sector.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Mar 02, 2018 · 09:00 am

Meet the UP students who dropped out of the school exams because they could no longer cheat

The dropouts came from diverse backgrounds. What united them was they had all bunked classes in school.

Shreya Roy Chowdhury

· Mar 01, 2018 · 07:30 am