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Commentators point out, that, while Ramabai's winning the race is a matter of pride for her daughters, it is a shame for India.

Ramabai's struggle to help fund her daughter's education, shows that government education schemes are not reaching people adequately," Sukta Otho Rudd, a former chairman of India's University Grants Commission, told the BBC.

As the BBC noted, the viral media attention to Ramabai's run reveals a wider sense of frustration among young Indians over education, jobs and the increasingly uncertain promise of a secure future.

RD is also studying for the Maharashtra civil service exams, hoping to pursue a career as a government officer.

there's a very current flashpoint.

The University Grants Commission issued regulations this year on caste discrimination in higher education, and the Supreme

Court stayed them.

That stay is significant.

It's a huge roadblock, and Scholars at Risk frames this not just as a series of isolated incidents, but as a structural shift in academic labor.

They specifically claim that the University Grants Commission, the UGC, is being used to casually erode academic labor by removing caps on non-permanent faculty.

Right, shifting professors onto short-term contracts.

Exactly.

Sir, I am also the General Secretary of Bharatiya Samajkariya Parishad, that is a national level association of social workers working towards decolonization and Indianization of social work.

And recently, sir, in the last year, I was nominated by University Grant Commission, that is the regulatory body of India.

As a member of the expert committee to draft the learning outcome curriculum-based social work that you can say, sir, it is a kind of review committee by the University Grant Commission to redraft the curriculum.

And I was also a member of that.

And even I am also associated with many universities of India in their board of studies, including the Tata Institute of Social Science, and trying to contribute little bit whatever possible towards Indianization of social work.

And recently, that is the, that NCP's, you know, that major recommendation, that job is to give major recommendations towards the formulation of the National Education Policy.

But I'm directly coming to... our social work education.

Sir, last year, university grant commission constituted the LOCF learning outcome curriculum framework to indigenize the social work education in India.

Birkbeck receives final UGC clearance to open Bengaluru.

Campus Birkbeck, University of London, has received the letter of approval from the University Grants Commission, giving the UK-based institution formal clearance to establish and operate its Bengaluru campus.

The approval follows the letter of intent issued earlier this year and completes the regulatory process under the UGC's 2023 framework for foreign higher educational institutions.

Located at Satva Tech Park, the campus will offer undergraduate and postgraduate programs in business management and business analytics, with degrees awarded by the University of London.