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ICF Team
Scientists and Rationalists Respond to IGNOU’s New Astrology Course
04 Aug 2021
In an extremely shocking move, the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has launched a two-year Master’s course on Astrology (Jyotish) for the academic year 2021-22. Established in 1985 a
Saurav Kumar
Bihar: Once Likened to Cambridge, Koshi College Faces a Crippling Staff Shortage
22 Jan 2021
The acute faculty crunch has affected thousands of students from the college with 35 of the 56 sanctioned posts – nearly 62% – lying vacant.
Harsha Bajpai
Surveillance on Students Raise Privacy Concerns on Online Education Platforms
16 Aug 2020
The author examines the day-to-day aspects of surveillance in a simulated classroom environment and how pupils, teachers, administrators and other members of the school community observe and…
Newsclick Team
NEP Will Lead to Commercialisation of Education
01 Aug 2020
Professor Abha Dev Habib, treasurer of the Delhi University Teachers' Association, talks about the National Education Policy that was approved by the government recently.
Mohd Kumail Haider
Coerced Exams During Pandemic Is Ludicrous
22 Jul 2020
The Union Ministry of Human Resource Development and the University Grants Commission (UGC) are bent on worsening the students’ plight.
Saumyajit Bhattacharya
Online Open Book Exams During Pandemic -- A Revenge on Students?
07 Jul 2020
There are serious accessibility and equity concerns that this process entails.
Newsclick Team
Open Book Exam: ‘Based on Injustice and Discrimination’
07 Jul 2020
The lockdown imposed across the country to control the spread of COVID-19 had had a severe impact on the academic sessions and examinations of the students.
Abdul Alim Jafri
COVID-19: BHU Students Protest after University Asks Them to Vacate Hostels in 48 Hours
22 May 2020
While the students fear being sent to quarantine centres in their respective states on their arrival, the administration insists that will not happen.
Viswanathan V.
The 1918 ‘Spanish’ Flu Pandemic in India and Eerie Similarities to COVID-19 in 2020
01 May 2020
The author delved into archives on the MHRD’s advice and discovered a story similar to the one playing out more than a century later.
Neelambaran A
Pondicherry Varsity: Students Protesting Against Fee Hike Detained by Forces
25 Feb 2020
The detentions took place ahead of the Vice President's visit tomorrow to the campus for the graduation ceremony.