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A major student-loan company is being punished for preventing over 460,000 borrowers from accessing cheaper monthly payments
The Education Department placed a second penalty on student-loan company MOHELA over failure to pro…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Kerala government implements 'Fake News detection' in school textbooks
In a move to empower school children, the Kerala government to include the identification of fake n…
ANI
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10 key education sector expectations for Union Budget 2024
The 2024-25 Interim Budget saw a historic increase in funding for education.
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Disability affairs department receives hike of 0.02%, allocated Rs 1,225 crore in budget
The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities has been allocated a total of Rs 1,225.2…
PTI
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Budget: Rs 13,539 cr allocated to social justice department, 37% higher than last year
This increase is primarily focused on enhancing welfare programmes for marginalised communities and…
PTI
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Wall Street tried getting into higher education. Disaster ensued.
Private equity firms made billions off of higher education. Students were left with worthless degre…
Ryann Liebenthal
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Biden's Education Department is considering avenues to make 450,000 more workers eligible for a key student-debt cancellation program
The Education Department issued a request for information on expanding Public Service Loan Forgiven…
Ayelet Sheffey
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A California police department spent at least $140,000 on a custom Cybertruck: report
Elon Musk has expressed support for Cybertruck cop cars, but it's unclear how effective they'd be.
Tom Carter
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Govt making efforts to recognise bright teachers adopting innovative methods: PM Modi
The teachers awarded were selected after a long process as their efforts can be useful in the new N…
PTI
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Canada to cut study permits for International students by 35%, Indian students to be impacted
Canada has announced a reduction in study permits for international students, impacting many Indian…
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RG Kar incident: Agitating junior docs defy SC order to rejoin work, reject Mamata's offer for talks
Junior doctors in West Bengal defied a Supreme Court order to resume work, continuing their protest…
PTI
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AI is entering classrooms in Italy, new learning tools to be tested in 15 classrooms across four regions
Italy is integrating AI in schools to improve digital literacy, starting with 15 classrooms. The in…
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Key student-debt relief programs are at risk if Congress doesn't boost Education Department funding, 25 Democratic lawmakers say
Following a botched FAFSA rollout and rocky return to student-loan repayment, Elizabeth Warren is c…
Ayelet Sheffey
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Flood alerts persist over Andhra-Telangana for the second consecutive day; authorities amp up rescue, relief measures
Telangana has reported 15 fatalities, while Andhra Pradesh has seen 12 lives lost as rivers in both…
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Wages of Assam tea workers "meagre"; welfare scheme implementation has "several shortcomings": CAG report
The CAG report also found the state government's intervention in fixing wages as per the Minimum Wa…
PTI
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A top 'engineer' faked his degrees and only had a high-school education. He got away with it for years.
A South African rail agency's chief engineer was sentenced to 15 years in prison after lying about …
Joshua Nelken-Zitser
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Special Education, Inc.
When Audax Group's private equity arm bought a chain of schools specializing in autistic students, …
Meghan Morris
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The Education Department agrees to consider more student-loan borrowers for its second attempt at debt relief
Following mounting pressure from advocates and Democrats, the Education Department said it's holdin…
Ayelet Sheffey
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More than 1 million student-loan borrowers could soon be transferred to a new company after their servicer requested a lighter load, the Education Department says
The Education Department agreed to student-loan company MOHELA's request to transfer some of its bo…
Ayelet Sheffey
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7.3 million students will be eligible for Pell Grants in the Education Department's latest update to a key financial aid application
The Education Department announced an update to its FAFSA calculations to make more students eligib…