edunews.todayIndependent news and analysis on higher education - policy, campus, research, and careers.https://edunews.today/enThe degree, unbundled: how India's credit-banking rules are pulling the bachelor's model aparthttps://edunews.today/policy/four-year-degree-unbundled/https://edunews.today/policy/four-year-degree-unbundled/The UGC's 2024 micro-credential rules let students earn up to half a degree in short skill courses and bank the credits. Nearly two years on, the bachelor's model is being reshaped by regulation, not just by the market.Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyStop calling it a skills gap. In India it is a wage gaphttps://edunews.today/opinion/skills-gap-wage-gap/https://edunews.today/opinion/skills-gap-wage-gap/Employers say graduates lack skills. The government's own data says most graduates are working below their qualifications, on pay that has not kept pace with their degrees. That is a different problem.Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionNIRF penalised bad research this year. The deeper fix is self-reported datahttps://edunews.today/opinion/ranking-system-broken/https://edunews.today/opinion/ranking-system-broken/India's ranking framework added a penalty for retracted papers in 2025, its first real admission that the scores can be gamed. The unaudited, self-reported data underneath is the part still waiting for reform.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTopinionThe four-year degree is now the default: what India's FYUP framework asks of students and collegeshttps://edunews.today/policy/fyup-four-year-undergraduate/https://edunews.today/policy/fyup-four-year-undergraduate/UGC's curriculum framework makes the four-year honours degree the main undergraduate track, with multiple exits, a research year, and a direct route to a PhD. The three-year degree is no longer the centre of the system.Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyIndia's IT giants stopped hiring in bulk. The jobs moved, they did not vanishhttps://edunews.today/careers/grad-job-market-cooled/https://edunews.today/careers/grad-job-market-cooled/Entry-level hiring at the big services firms has thinned sharply. But global capability centres and specialist roles in AI and green energy are absorbing graduates the old campus pipeline no longer does.Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcareersFree university tuition works in a dozen countries. The bill is the catchhttps://edunews.today/funding/college-wiped-out-tuition/https://edunews.today/funding/college-wiped-out-tuition/Germany, the Nordics, Argentina and others run tuition-free public universities. The model is real, and so is its constraint: someone always pays, and capacity is rationed instead of price.Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTfundingIndia bet its research future on private money: inside the Anusandhan National Research Foundationhttps://edunews.today/research/anrf-research-funding/https://edunews.today/research/anrf-research-funding/The ANRF plans a ₹50,000 crore research corpus over five years, with roughly 70% expected from industry and philanthropy. It is a deliberate break from how Indian science has been funded, and its biggest risk.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchIndia's retraction surge forced a reckoning with how research gets checkedhttps://edunews.today/research/peer-review-breaking/https://edunews.today/research/peer-review-breaking/The country now ranks third in the world for life-science retractions. Regulators have scrapped an old journal list and funders are demanding disclosure, but the harder repair is peer review itself.Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchSmaller classes help, but not the way policymakers keep hopinghttps://edunews.today/research/class-size-earnings/https://edunews.today/research/class-size-earnings/The Tennessee STAR experiment gave the field its cleanest evidence that small classes raise early achievement. Decades of follow-up show why cutting class size is still one of the most expensive ways to buy it.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTresearchHalf of India's graduates are now employable, and the other half is the storyhttps://edunews.today/careers/graduate-employability-gap/https://edunews.today/careers/graduate-employability-gap/The India Skills Report 2025 puts graduate employability at 54.81%, a record. But a widening gender gap and a persistent skills mismatch mean the headline hides where the work still is.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTcareersThe world is quietly copying Australia's student loan. India is a step behindhttps://edunews.today/policy/aid-formula-rewrite/https://edunews.today/policy/aid-formula-rewrite/Income-contingent loans, where repayment tracks earnings and pauses when income falls, have spread from Australia to the UK and beyond. India's education-loan model still leans on fixed EMIs and collateral.Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTpolicyForeign universities have opened in India, and the first intakes are tinyhttps://edunews.today/campus/foreign-universities-india/https://edunews.today/campus/foreign-universities-india/UGC's 2023 rules let top-500 global universities run independent campuses in India. The two Australian pioneers opened in GIFT City with cohorts you could fit in a seminar room, a careful first step rather than a flood.Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcampusThe residential campus is a Western ideal. Most of the world already commuteshttps://edunews.today/campus/commuter-university-returns/https://edunews.today/campus/commuter-university-returns/Rising rents and cost pressure are pushing students back toward living at home and commuting. For India, that was never a retreat - the day scholar has always been the norm.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTcampus