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Is AMU, a Vatican of India’s reactionary Muslim elite?

Continuing an active debate around the dominant politics at the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) this former student questions the latent arcane exclusivism that is affecting both quality, representation and diversity within

DU teachers protest against oppressive policies

DU has decided to appoint guest lecturers for permanent positions, leaving 4,500 ad-hoc teachers in the lurch

HRD Ministry’s response to parliamentary question highlights the lack of transgender participation in higher education

In response to an unstarred question asked in the Lok Sabha with regards to transgender participation in higher education, HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal ‘Nishank’ said there are no trans students in any Indian central universities. He could only offer up empty banalities when asked about planned measures to improve the statistics.

After JNU, its neighbour IIMC protests against fee hike

IIMC officials have said that there is going to be a faculty-student meeting soon

Parents ‘foreigner’, 31 children deprived of education languish in Assam’s detention camps

The Assam Legislative Assembly has been informed that there are total 31 children in detention camps, figures valid till November 20, 2019.

JNU Alumni protest fees hike in Kolkata, gets support from several Universities

Professors, students and parents, who are aggrieved with the fee hike in public education system of India poured in huge number in central Kolkata to show solidarity with JNU alumni demanding fee hike to be rolled back

Student Movement and Public Education

The movement of Students along with other Universities and...

Only work, no pay: 40,000 teachers in K’taka not paid salaries since September

The teachers are getting the short end of the stick between the tussle of the Centre and the states

75,000 student suicides between 2007 and 2016 in India!

Academic pressure, caste-based discrimination found to be major causes

Welcome to Bengal, where there is not one or two, but thirty Muslim Professors who teach Sanskrit

Around 14 were recruited last year through College Service Commission and 12 this year. The most recent recruitment being of Ramzal Ali at the Sanskrit department of Ramkrishna Mission Vidyamandir, Belur

After protests, Sanskrit prof Firoz Khan applies to other faculties at BHU

He was not allowed to teach at the SVDV faculty of BHU after students said a Muslim couldn’t teach them

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