It is crucial to realise that foreign investment is one of the possible remedies, but not a panacea for the present challenges India's higher education sector is facing.

As the fall comes along, the choice, for many American colleges is between a potentially fatal reopening and the inevitability of cuts, furloughs and layoffs for employees. Amid this, the most sensible approaches have come to include a variety of hybrid models.

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta argued that not conducting exams will not be in the interest of students and degrees may not be recognised if the states would act unilaterally.

The NEP is a futuristic document that looks forward to the knowledge economy of the 21st century, one in which India’s participation has been intermittent at best. Will faculty members of these potentially impressive multiversities be able to shape the kind of research that molds not only their productivity, but also their very identities as visionary and effective teachers at the postsecondary level?

The National Education Policy 2020 recognises the need for better teaching and learning methods, better teacher training and more meaningful exams. But it does not provide a realistic way in which private institutions can raise funds to meet the needs of their students and their communities.

PM Narendra Modi said NEP 2020 emphasises on inter-disciplinary study which will ensure that the focus is on what the student wants to learn.

The UGC told the top court that nobody should remain under the impression that since the Supreme Court is examining this issue, the final year /semester examination will be stayed.

Among the changes proposed in the National Education Policy 2020 is there will be special focus on foundational literacy and numeracy in early stages of schooling. Read some of the highlights of NEP 2020 here.

The HRD Ministry set up a committee under University Grants Commission chairman to prepare guidelines and measures to ensure that 'more and more' Indian students 'stay in India and study in India'.

For admissions in the NITs and other CFTIs, general category students are required to have secured a minimum 75% marks in Class 12 board exams or figure among the top 20 percentile holders in the qualifying exams, apart from clearing the JEE-Main.

The massive blow suffered by the global middle class in the post-pandemic economic depression, will severely shrink the movement of students to western universities, says author Saikat Majumdar

National Education Policy aims at keeping higher education on a tighter corporate-government leash in the name of promoting autonomy, says Professor Nandita Narain

Fee hike during times of privatisation coupled with debates over ideology, caste-exclusionary elitism and gender equality are among the main reasons why university students are up in arms

State quotas are defeating the very purpose of the all-India medical entrance examination (NEET). Domicile, not merit, is ruining the dreams of thousands of aspiring doctors

A glance at the NEP report, that promises radical changes

The draft New Education Policy can be a gamechanger as it aims to address binary of research and training

Developing vocational courses, and integrating them with higher education, is improving career prospects

The New Education Policy, which focuses more on development of core capacities and life skills, will help students become more well-rounded. Effectively, they will improve their chances in the job market

Buoyed by the world's largest population in the 6-17 age bracket and expansion of digital learning, the education market will double and can be valued at $180 billion by 2020. It will be a challenge for the Narendra Modi government to streamline the sector