Students at Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi have been protesting for over ten days, calling out the Head of the Department of Fine Arts for alleged sexual harassment, displays of regional bias, and more. They have been beaten up and groped by goons, yet have successfully pushed the administration to send him on temporary leave, […]
TMC student activists brutally attack and injure students at Surendranath College, Kolkata, for protesting against privatisation of higher education, scrapping of UGC and ruling party corruption in admissions across colleges in the state. Two students seriously injured. Police yet to arrest anyone though FIR has been filed. GroundXero report. Today, students belonging to a left […]
Last week, before going off on a spree of tweets about his Australia trip he expects would save the future of Indian education system, Minister of HRD of India, Prakash Javadekar announced scrapping of the University Grants Commission, and declared what he called the Higher Education Commission of India as it’s ‘replacement’. The HECI is […]