Speaking at the CHIPS 2026 conclave, Priti Adani called for closer cooperation between industry and universities to build the skilled workforce India's semiconductor ambitions require. Three panel discussions at the event examined key priorities for the sector, including training, research partnerships and preparing students for jobs in chip design and manufacturing.
An opinion piece argues that management education in India would benefit from deeper exposure to the humanities and social sciences. With limited contact with other disciplines, MBA students may form views based on past assumptions and even prejudices. Broader study, the writer suggests, could help future managers think more critically and understand the societies their businesses serve.
Vacancies in senior teaching posts at India's higher education institutions are a growing concern, according to an analysis. Faculty attrition is neither new nor unique to India, but the seniority gap cannot simply be closed through fresh recruitment, since experienced professors take years to develop. The shortfall affects mentoring, research leadership and the overall quality of teaching.
A protest at Jamia Millia Islamia in Delhi turned tense when students and campus security guards clashed. Following the confrontation, the university moved classes online. The incident has drawn attention to campus tensions, and both students and administrators are expected to face questions about how the situation escalated.
In Karnataka, students are missing months of teaching because teachers are being assigned to work as booth-level officers for the electoral roll revision, the census and other non-teaching tasks. A teachers' association says around 70,000 staff have been pulled into such duties. The revision is only the latest government exercise keeping teachers out of classrooms.
A handful of Britain's best-known private schools are setting up in India, drawn by the country's fast-expanding wealthy class. The move offers families an international-style education closer to home, while giving the schools a new source of students and revenue at a time when demand and finances at home face pressure.
PhD enrolment in India has climbed to 3.44 lakh, but research fellowships have not kept up. Many scholars pay for lab work themselves, live on stipends of ₹8,000 a month that have not changed since 2012, and wait as long as 30 months to receive payments. Critics say this threatens the country's wider research ambitions.
Many private universities in India continue to disregard University Grants Commission rules requiring them to refund fees when students cancel admission. Despite regulations and court orders that have helped students recover more than ₹25.51 crore, families often find themselves stuck without their money. The findings raise questions about how well the regulator's rules are being enforced.
BBC News will no longer have a dedicated education editor, with the role merged with social affairs as part of cuts saving £5.5m and affecting 100 jobs. The health editor position is also going. School leaders called the move deeply regrettable, warning of less scrutiny of key public services.
Alan Bennett's The History Boys is returning to London's West End for the first time in two decades. Director Nicholas Hytner, who staged the original and the 2006 film, warned of an 'almost terminal decline' in humanities teaching in state schools, saying the play's themes about education feel especially relevant.