The Supreme Court on Friday permitted the Centre and CBSE to cancel the remaining Class X and XII examinations that could not be conducted due to the coronavirus pandemic and approved the Board's scheme to award marks to students for the cancelled papers, based on their performance in previous exams held before the Covid situation worsened. The result will be out by July 15.

Source : The Times of India

We’ve entered June, and it is now clear that it’s going to be a very complicated academic year ahead for universities worldwide. For instance, it looks like Australia can hope to retain a flow of international students only if its universities drastically slash tuition. Former University of Canberra Vice-chancellor Stephen Parker recently told the Times Higher Education that Australian universities had been “caught out like luxury brands have been caught out”, with prices reflecting prestige names rather than the “intrinsic superiority of the product”. Now in a Covid-altered world, with the pandemic significantly altering the appetite for foreign education for countries like China, escalating fees will be a severe deterrent for international students. Similar concerns are being voiced in the UK as well. The massive sprawl of universities across the US, meanwhile, have begun to work out intricate and elaborate plans for the fall that include multiple combinations of online and severely restricted on-campus instruction. As The Chronicle of Higher Education has pointed out, a major issue facing American campuses that choose to open in the fall is going to be about liability and potential litigation on the event of illness and death. To address this, universities will need to shield themselves with a phalanx of waivers and disclosures that may further discourage students, especially applicants from overseas who would have chosen them in a more normal world. What can Indian universities do to prepare a tough year ahead? Particularly, what can they do to become a reliable and enriching place for students who might stay in the country as opposed to going overseas for higher education? It is becoming increasingly clear that global education

Source : Outlook India