Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan resigned on July 25, 2026, after weeks of nationwide protests over examination malpractices. Pradhan cited the unrest and disruption in the education sector — which he said were affecting students’ lives and damaging the country’s reputation — as his reason for stepping down, saying he hoped his resignation would help […]
The National Education Policy 2020 pushed schools to embrace multilingual learning through its three-language policy, a move meant to keep Indian languages alive and give students more to choose from. But on the ground, a lot of schools are running into the same basic problem: there just aren’t enough Sanskrit teachers to go around. In […]
Students and parents came out together this week to protest the alleged leak of the NEET exam paper, calling for real changes to how national-level entrance exams are run. The protest captured something that’s been building for a while now, frustration among candidates who feel like one controversy after another is chipping away at the […]