In June 2024, a video clip of mass cheating during MA and MBA exams conducted by the Indira Gandhi National Open University in Bihar raised serious questions about the state’s education system. It was ...

For most of history the economies of India and China grew in lockstep. In 1970 the countries were almost identically wealthy. But today China’s GDP per person, at around $13,000, is nearly five times ...

Oxford University student Sophia Howard shares her experience of India’s education system on the sidelines of the 63rd session of the UN Human Rights Council. She highlights the National Education ...

After a hot summer dominated by youth protests that toppled the country’s education minister, attention has stayed on the schools, colleges and universities in which almost 300m Indians are enrolled.

Protests in India are growing as the government and the Cockroach Janta ("People's") Party negotiate over reforms to the education system. Tens of thousands of young protesters in India have been ...

Despite having no training, or even a pair of running shoes, Ramabai Ranveer sprinted barefoot to victory in her first-ever race in August. The 47-year-old widow had entered a 3km (1.86-mile) ...