Tezpur University (esb 1994) in Assam, envisioned as a model employment-oriented, interdisciplinary central university tailored to the needs of the Northeast, is today finding itself in a full-blown crisis of governance. What began as an emotional reaction to the death of beloved Assamese singer Zubeen Garg in mid-September has evolved into a sweeping indictment of the university’s administration. Students, faculty …

The politicization and backlash over admissions to the 50 sanctioned MBBS seats at the newly established Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Institute of Medical Excellence (SMVDIME) have opened a deeper national debate—one that extends far beyond this single institution. The controversy raises fundamental questions about whether religious identity or community funding can or should influence access to educational institutions that operate …

The recently concluded three-day DIDAC India 2025, the 15th edition of India’s flagship education exhibition organised by the India Didactics Association (IDA), ended not with the promised bang but with what can best be described as a damp squib. Despite the grand announcement of the debut edition of DIDAC Skills 2025 and the association’s claims of participation by “over 500 …

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 The recent controversy at Panjab University (PU) — over the Union Ministry of Education’s now-withdrawn notification restructuring the university’s …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, …