Education
The West Bengal Assembly’s passage of the University Administration Amendment Bill grants the state unchecked powers to transfer college and university staff. While pitched as a reform to aid newer institutions, the move strikes at the core of campus autonomy, raising fears that punitive transfers will be used to silence critical academic voices.
The Ministry of Education has clarified that the Chairperson of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is not legally bound to personally answer questions raised by a parliamentary House panel.
On Sunday, June 21, 2026, over 20 lakh medical aspirants successfully retook the high-stakes NEET-UG re-examination at 5,440 centres across India and 14 locations abroad to secure undergraduate medical admissions.
The rupee breached 90-levels against the greenback for the first time on Wednesday, falling 6 paise to 90.02 in early trade, as banks kept buying US dollars at higher levels and FII outflows continued. However, a weaker dollar index and a fall in global crude oil prices cushioned against a steeper decline, according to forex traders.
The newly appointed Vice-Chancellors (VCs) of six state universities in West Bengal by Governor C. V. Ananda Bose signify a significant change in the management of higher education in the state and the long-running stalemate on the appointment of the important leadership roles.
The highly awaited School Innovation and Reform (SIR) The project, which was supposed to be launched in West Bengal this October, has suddenly taken a stunted start. Despite initial enthusiasm on the part of teachers and students, the Education Department has now officially denied that the program would commence this month as scheduled, owing to “administrative and logistical reasons.
The director of the Indian Institute of Management Raipur, Ram Kumar Kakani resigned in July 2025 which is raising questions about the autonomy of the institute.
While the United States is about to accept approximately six lakh (600,000) Chinese students for postgraduate studies, it still signifies the two nations’ educational friendship and global diplomacy.
A Parliamentary Standing Committee has urged the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) and the Union government to retain the Bachelor of Elementary Education (B.El.Ed) programme, warning against replacing it with the new Integrated Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020.
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