The Supreme Court of India’s strong objection to the portrayal of the judiciary in the new Class 8 Social Science textbook published by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT)—under a chapter titled “The Role of the Judiciary in Our Society”—amounts to a stern message to the academic body: you have been casual in your approach to work …
Ahead of the March 12 hearing in the High Court on the Delhi School Education (Transparency in Fixation and Regulation of Fees) Act, 2025, the Delhi government last week announced that it will set up three Project Monitoring Units (PMUs)—each comprising 10 chartered accountants—to conduct comprehensive financial audits of around 1,794 private unaided recognised schools in the national capital. The …
Noida-based Galgotias University (established in 2011), a private multidisciplinary institution with an enrolment of around 30,000 students, found itself at the centre of a national controversy during the India AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi. The university was widely mocked and trolled after appearing to imply that the Unitree Go2 — a commercially available Chinese-made robotic dog — was …
India is poised to become the most strategically important destination globally for the expansion of international higher education, driven by a once-in-a-generation convergence of policy reform, demographic scale and urban readiness, according to a new joint report by Knight Frank India, Deloitte India and QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Titled India’s 155 Million Student Mandate, the report highlights that India is home to the …
The core responsibility of higher education institutions lies in what may be described as reverse engineering society—the deliberate and systematic effort to dismantle, reconfigure, and correct the inequities they inevitably mirror. This involves actively designing institutional cultures and systems that promote community, fraternity, and shared belonging across lines of class, caste, gender, religion, language, and region. Through common spaces, mixed …
Last year’s Union Budget sent a clear signal that education is central to India’s growth story. With a landmark allocation of ₹1.28 trillion and the launch of initiatives such as the Centre of Excellence in AI for Education with a ₹500 crore outlay, the government positioned technology, innovation, and future-ready skills at the heart of learning reform. All eyes are …
