As many as 25 crore people below the primary definition of literacy, notes Dharmendra Pradhan...

'It is a happy coincidence that the motion is being brought on the second anniversary of the scrapping of Article 370'...

Under the plan the govt expects to cover 1.16 million schools, over 156 million students and 5.7 million teachers of government and and aided schools...

Academics said this was not surprising because the Short-Term Training programme was superficial, short and often at odds with the industry’s demands...

Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, G Kishan Reddy, along with party’s general secretary and Karnataka in-charge Arun Singh are expected to attend the interaction...

The National Education Policy 2020 recommended setting up of the HECI as a single umbrella body for higher education, excluding medical and legal education...

The test, earlier scheduled on July 3, was postponed in view of the Covid-19 situation...

NEP envisions it as an umbrella body with four independent verticals to perform distinct functions of regulation, accreditation, funding, and academic standard setting...

This has disappointed some academics who said it was the Union government’s responsibility to implement its push for online education...

In a written reply to an unstarred question in the Lok Sabha, Dharmendra Pradhan said the majority of institutions were under the domain of the states or UTs...