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    Budget 2016 sets stage for hike in IIT, varsity tuition fees

    Photo: Indranil Bhoumik/Mint Fees for students studying in publicly funded higher education institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and central universities could more than double, with budget 2016 proposing a new funding pattern for the elite schools. The budget proposed setting up a Higher Education Financing Agency (HEFA), a quasi-sovereign body which […]

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    Budget pegs Rs72,394 crore as education outlay for 2016-17

    As part of the pending move, all education credentials of students from Class X onwards would be digitized and kept in a demat format. Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint New Delhi: The Union budget on Monday allocated Rs.72,394 crore to education in the 2016-17 financial year, an increase of around 5% over the 2015-16 estimate. Of the […]