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Hits and misses in Budget 2024 for India’s education sector

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lakh crore (over $17 billion) for education, employment and skill sectors, internships with stipends worth INR 5,000 in top companies, to promising education loans upto INR 10 lakhs ($11,949), the central government is eyeing a funding boost for the education space. From announcing INR 1.48 That said, again execution matters.

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The Bombay Club 2.0: How valid are misgivings about branch campuses?

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The sheer number of international vice-chancellors touring the country illustrates the length of the queue at the University Grants Commission’s door. Just five years on from the New Education Policy (NEP) announcement , the rapid proliferation of global university brands in India is ramping up.

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Decentralisation and the case for moving to a tertiary education system

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The latter source grew steadily more important and in 1919 the Treasury established a University Grants Committee (UGC) to rationalise government grants which in the 1920s and 1930s rose to around 30% of individual universities’ expenditure. The system is too large, too bureaucratic and too monocentric.

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Review of The Robbins Report at 60 (HEPI Policy Note 49) by Mike Shattock

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This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Michael Shattock, Visiting Professor at the UCL Institute of Education. Pre-92s with a large swathe of self-financed residences funded by mortgages should be able to present a much lower rental package than post-92s; the post-92s are historically disadvantaged over residential provision.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

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by GR Evans Should higher education providers foster a ‘research culture’? As the body responsible for research under the Higher Education and Research Act (2017), UK Research and Innovation offers its own definition. The inclusion of ‘research’ was still a recent arrival in universities.