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JNU Students Lathi-charged, Injured, first detained during protest over V-C remarks, UGC Equity guidelines, now Jailed

Fourteen of hundreds of protesting students from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) were sent to Tihar Jail on Friday, February 27 after a late night brutal lathi charge by the Delhi police on February 26, attacking a student protest and long march aimed to march towards the Ministry of Education; protesters were demanding the resignation of Vice Chancellor (VC) JNU Ms Pandit who had made derogative remarks against Dalits and Blacks recently

Politics in education or politics of education?

New courses in universities, schools stressing on ‘patriotism’ or adding works of right wing ideologies narrow spaces for diversity and questioning

Student leaders demand reopening of colleges, deem online education inadequate

Student representatives from JNU, JMI, AMU come together on the call of the SIO to discuss the urgent need to reopen campuses

Sikkim: Indefinite hunger strike continues as ad-hoc teachers demand service extension

Sick of waiting for the re-interview process to complete, Sikkim’s ad-hoc teachers have asked for an extension of their contract if not immediate interviews

Is Indian education being tainted by communal politics?

The last three months recorded many controversies in Indian education that hint at the sectarian attitude of college administration.

OC has violated the democratic process of syllabus-making: DU teachers

In response to the Delhi University’s press release notifying syllabus change, English teachers published a detailed response to the DU Registrar

Visva Bharti college row: Calcutta HC orders no protests within 50 metres of campus

University students have been protesting the decision to expel three students on disciplinary grounds

Myanmar refugee children can now go to school in Mizoram

The north-eastern state permitted admission to school for the children on humanitarian grounds

DU should apologise to Bama, Sukirtharani and Mahesweta Devi: Dalit Intellectual Collective

The Collective says the exlusion of these women writers once again highlights the bigoted attitude in higher education

Maharashtra: Is setting up medical institutes under public-private partnership a good route?

The government has decided to set up new medical colleges, super-speciality hospitals across the state on a public-private partnership basis

Censorship in learning tarnishes India’s international image: DTF member Dhusiya

AC, DTF and concerned experts heavily criticise the Oversight Committee’s call to remove three significant Dalit women writers from the English literature syllabus.

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