PhD students in India will no longer be required to publish articles in academic journals before they are awarded their doctorates, if the country’s higher-education regulator adopts recommendations ...

According to the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2021-22 report, more than 42,000 students registered for PhD programs in the sciences. Some 7,200 got their PhD degrees. The PhD is often ...

India’s struggle to build a thriving research ecosystem runs deeper than just low R&D spending. For decades, the country has underinvested in critical scientific infrastructure and support, creating a ...

Deepa (name changed) topped her postgraduate physics class a few years ago and earned a coveted spot in a Central university’s PhD programme. She imagined long hours in the lab, cutting-edge ...

Ishaan Bhadoo is among 95 scholars and future leaders whose names have been mentioned by the Gates Cambridge Trust and will form the 25th cohort of Gates Cambridge Scholars. He is the only scholar ...

Funding agencies stall over fellowship wage hikes announced by government last October. A protest by thousands of young Indian PhD students, who are frustrated by delays and confusion over a promised ...