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Face must be visible, then hijab, burqa, dupatta or attire of choice permitted to TET candidates: MCSE

This clarification from the Maharashtra State Council of Examination (MSCE) came days after the council’s directive for the June 28 examination; the initial instructions stated that candidates will not be allowed to wear items such as dupattas, burqas, masks and caps inside examination centres which triggered a debate among teachers and various social groups

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

Pakistani students march for ‘azadi’

Taking a cue from their JNU counterparts, Pakistani students are to protest the abysmal condition of higher education

Why fee hikes are the death of education in India

With private education costs skyrocketing, public universities are the only refuge the disempowered students of India have

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