Across India, the past decade has seen a quiet but unmistakable centralisation of higher education policy — through the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the creation of umbrella regulatory bodies, and expanding ministerial oversight over institutions once defined by their autonomy. The recent controversy at Panjab University (PU) — over the Union Ministry of Education’s now-withdrawn notification restructuring the university’s …

After Islami Chhatra Shibir’s (ICS) landslide victories in both DUCSU and JUCSU this September 2025, observers expect Bangladesh’s student politics to take a decisive turn. ICS, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, is likely to push harder for cultural Islamization on campuses, with hijab campaigns emerging as an early front. Winning Dhaka University Central Students’ Union was not merely about securing …

The annual NIRF Rankings 2025 arrived this September—four months late, shrouded in rumors that the exercise might be scrapped altogether. For weeks, skeptics, global lobbyists, and their local collaborators whispered that India’s decade-long experiment with homegrown rankings had collapsed. And yet, the NIRF survived. Not just survived, but expanded—marking ten uninterrupted years of a project often derided as bureaucratic, opaque, …

The NCERT’s new Partition modules—one for Classes 6–8 and another for Classes 9–12—released on Partition Horrors Remembrance Day (Vibhajan Vibhishika Smriti Diwas) this August 14, have ignited headlines and debate. By offering a more candid analysis of 1947, they mark a shift in how the tragedy of Partition is taught to schoolchildren. Predictably, the modules have become a political flashpoint. …

After 52 years of unchecked private school fee hikes, Delhi finally stands on the cusp of reform. The passage of the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Bill, 2025 in the Assembly on August 8 marks a turning point in the city’s education landscape. It is a long-overdue attempt to rein in arbitrary fee increases, restore …

The visa and other curbs coupled with the MAGA mandate are bound to have a significant impact on international student enrollment in the U.S. this year. For India, which surpassed China in 2024 as the top sender of international students to the U.S. for the first time since 2009, this is a moment of both achievement and uncertainty. Indian students …