For many Indians, academic and career ambitions have been inseparable from the practice of going overseas. Will the Coronavirus pandemic radically alter this reality?

What will it mean for teaching and learning 'in a world of Corona'? The solution that most people around the world are seeing as the default and safest option is technological - online teaching, writes Mousumi Mukherjee.

As we stand now, we’re lucky if it’s just a Corona-shaped hole in the form of a single semester. On the other end, it can change the structure and the texture of careers forever for students worldwide.

The key challenge before the holistic admission process is to keep itself open and sensitive to a socially diverse group of students.

The three key areas highlighted in the Union Budget 2020 are vocationalisation, digitization, and enhanced foreign direct investment in education in India. However, these measures should not be privileged at the expense of the core concerns of higher education in India.

No private university, no matter how excellent, can fulfil the staggeringly vast and demanding responsibilities that only a public university can address.

What is urgently required is a goodwill of the government that would ensure the right to dissent of the students is protected.

In a country like India, where primary education remains a luxury for many, higher education is a crucial avenue of serious upward mobility, not least because so few get access to it.

Universities in India still function as if serving the administrative needs of a colonial empire.

The conflict between parental pressure and personal choice in higher education should now be an antiquated problem left behind in the 20th century.

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