The Union cabinet on Wednesday approved the new National Education Policy (NEP) and renamed the HRD ministry as education ministry, officials said. A panel led by former Indian Space Research Organis...

Final-year undergraduate and master’s students will have to appear in exams to get their degrees, the government announced on Monday, while relaxing the earlier July schedule by saying these tes...

The human resource development ministry on Monday called senior JNU officials to discuss Sunday’s large-scale campus violence, allegedly led by the ABVP, but vice-chancellor M. Jagadesh Kumar was ab...

The Centre has overturned a decision taken by a common forum of the IITs to introduce a system under which entry-level teachers would have had to remain on probation for five years before their servic...

Central government departments are continuing to hire people on contract without implementing reservations a year after the social justice minister proposed that contractual appointments in government...

The Jawaharlal Nehru students' union (JNUSU) on Thursday said they will hold a protest outside the HRD ministry and demand that the recommendations of a committee, constituted to restore the smooth fu...

A high-power committee constituted by the HRD ministry will visit the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus on Friday to meet the students and find a solution to the current issues concerning the v...

The human resource development ministry has revised its draft National Education Policy, introducing a host of policy measures that include differential salary packages for teachers of the same rank a...

Normally, governments would be expected to govern. The Indian government, however, considers its office-bearers experts in all spheres of activity, especially education. The Bharatiya Janata Party-led...

All the vacant faculty positions in central higher-education institutions will be filled in the next six months, the government assured Parliament on Friday.Human resource development minister Ramesh ...