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20 Years Without a Union, 18 Days of Hunger Strike: Jamia Students Script a Win | Teesta Setalvad
To ensure campus democracy and an elected union, Jamia Millia Islamia's students fought back through an 18-day hunger strike.Teesta Setalvad speaks with Ebin Basil and Mohammad Athnan about the...
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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