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Who are Gujarat’s Agariyas? The salt workers of Kutch now set to benefit from ‘School on Wheels’

Gujarat's new "School on Wheels" initiative is converting 28 retired buses into mobile, smart classrooms. The project brings continuous, digital education directly to the children of the migratory Agariya salt-farming community living across the remote Rann of Kutch.

Uttar Pradesh: Yogi government to organise ‘Nipun Sankalp Workshops’ across all districts to improve learning outcomes in schools

The workshops will feature in-depth deliberations on the academic strategy for the 2026-27 session, the prescribed academic calendar, school-level activities, and 'Nipun Vidyalaya' targets.

Makeshift classrooms, lecturers getting Rs 500 per class: Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee promised Chicago-Harvard-like universities, delivered a mockery of education

An Indian Express ground investigation revealed that most of these varsities depend on guest faculty working at the UGC-mandated rate of Rs 500 per class.

UGC releases names of 32 fake universities across India, Delhi tops the list with 12

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has identified 32 fake universities operating across 12 states in India, according to its latest update released in February...

Budget 2026: Here are 5 major steps taken by the Modi govt to strengthen education in India

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Budget 2026 announced major education and skill reforms, including AVGC labs in schools and colleges, girls’ hostels in every district, industry-linked university townships, a new design institute, and a panel to link education with employment.

UGC’s equity regulations risk turning campuses into DEI laboratories that India can’t afford

What the UGC has proposed is not a modest reform but a sweeping bureaucratic architecture that closely resembles Western DEI frameworks, models that promised inclusion but instead delivered polarisation, litigation, and institutional paralysis. India is at risk of importing a failed ideological export at precisely the wrong moment.

India has boarded the ‘Reform Express’, 2025 marks decisive shift towards next generation reforms and Viksit Bharat: PM Modi

Highlighting tax relief, labour code consolidation, expanded MSME norms, trade agreements and nuclear and maritime reforms, the Prime Minister said governance has shifted towards trust, technology driven administration and sustained, inclusive growth across sectors.

Christian groups object to Assam govt’s move to regulate fees in minority-run schools, want unilateral right to keep hiking fees in the name of...

In a move aimed at curbing arbitrary fee hikes and promoting educational equity, the Assam government on Wednesday tabled a bill in the assembly...

Kerala govt asks Christian institution to allow Muslim student to wear hijab, Edu Minister calls St Rita school’s dress code implementation ‘unconstitutional’

The management of the CBSE-affiliated school, run by the Latin Catholic Church, had declined the female student's request to be allowed to wear a hijab, citing the school dress code.

‘Sex education should be included in curriculum from younger age, not IX to XII’: SC while granting bail to 15-year-old boy accused of sexual...

The Supreme Court of India on Wednesday noted that sex education must be included in curriculum at a younger age, observing that such instruction...

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