Mumbai's DAIS placed ninth among IB Diploma Programme schools worldwide in the 2026 rankings by Education Advisers UK, the only Indian school in the global top 10. Reliance says it also had the largest graduating cohort among the top 10, with 105 students.
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The International School Ho Chi Minh City will introduce a new Personalized Diploma Program for Grades 11 and 12, giving students more choice in shaping their final two years while still offering the full IB Diploma Programme.
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Cambridge International Education brought school leaders from across Hyderabad together on 22 October to discuss how schooling must evolve, as Indian families increasingly look for an education that combines global opportunity with relevance to India.
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GEMS Education is launching GEMS Modern Academy in Vellakinar, Coimbatore, offering both CBSE and IB pathways on a single campus. It will welcome its first students in the 2027 to 28 academic year, with admissions open from 20 October.
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The British Examination Centre, a new independent examination and assessment centre set up under CEG Education Holdings, has launched in Colombo as a Cambridge Associate, covering international examinations, teacher development and educational standards.
Read more at The Sunday Times Sri Lanka →The Irish Times visits Villiers School in Limerick, Ireland's only boarding school offering both the Leaving Cert and the International Baccalaureate, where clubs, a shared cafe for staff and students and dog friendly notices signal an inclusive culture.
Read more at The Irish Times →A new study finds that the scientists students meet in GCSE and A level science courses are overwhelmingly men. From Newton's laws to Darwin's natural selection, the breakthroughs students remember carry male names, while women who changed science are left out.
Read more at The Conversation →Ofqual regulated online college Lift College has partnered with Tutors and Exams so its learners can sit AQA and Pearson Edexcel GCSE and A level exams in person at ten centres across England, with entry, venue and invigilation arranged.
Read more at FE News →Dr Christopher Stevens, executive head of Clifton College and the Clifton College Education Group, tells BW Education that confidence, character, wellbeing and independent thinking matter as much as grades in preparing young people for life beyond school.
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About 17.8 percent of University of California freshmen in introductory maths courses failed or withdrew in the 2025 to 26 school year, nearly one in five, according to new data that has renewed debate over the system's decision to stop requiring SAT and ACT scores.
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The San Francisco Examiner recalls that UC's own faculty task force, after an 18 month review ending in 2020, found SAT scores predicted first year college grades better than high school grades did, a finding that shapes today's debate over testing.
Read more at San Francisco Examiner →The test optional era is fading as prestigious US universities revive mandatory SAT and ACT requirements and the University of California system weighs its policies. Cardinal Education CEO Allen Koh explained what it means for applicants on KTVU's The Nine.
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While several highly selective universities reinstate tests, the 13 campus University of Wisconsin system is considering permanently dropping ACT and SAT requirements for first year applicants, arguing high school GPA is more strongly associated with student outcomes.
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Oriel Admissions found that seven Ivy League colleges have published Class of 2030 acceptance figures, ranging from 4.1 percent at Princeton to 9.2 percent at Cornell, while Harvard has yet to release its rate.
Read more at EIN Presswire →Every Ivy League school admits fewer than one in ten applicants, Visual Capitalist shows, with Harvard lowest at 3.7 percent, followed by Yale at 3.9 and Columbia at 4.0. By comparison, about 59 percent of applications to selective US four year colleges were accepted in fall 2024.
Read more at Visual Capitalist →The Inquirer explains why colleges created the Early Decision option and who benefits from it, recalling the widely reported case in which a whole Colorado high school was penalised after one student broke an early decision commitment to Tulane.
Read more at The Philadelphia Inquirer →Prediction market Kalshi could soon add event contracts on admission rates at 22 selective institutions, including Johns Hopkins University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago, according to notices reported by Inside Higher Ed.
Read more at Inside Higher Ed →The University of Virginia's newest first year class came from a record 82,087 applications and a record low offer rate of 13 percent, The Cavalier Daily reports in a closer look at who makes up the Class of 2030.
Read more at The Cavalier Daily →Placards against Parcoursup, France's university admissions platform similar to the UK's UCAS, have become a common sight at student protests, Times Higher Education reports, with students accusing it of working like a black box driven by opaque algorithms.
Read more at Times Higher Education →Admission to Ashoka University involves more than school grades. Its undergraduate process weighs academic performance, intellectual curiosity, written communication, aptitude and the ability to articulate ideas, with routes that include the Ashoka Aptitude Assessment and SAT scores.
Read more at The Tribune →UCAS sets out what Year 12 and Year 13 students in the UK are thinking about at this point in the autumn, from exploring their options to applications, and how employers can build relevant, timely engagement with them.
Read more at UCAS →Houston Independent School District and Houston Christian University have formalised an agreement that guarantees HISD students admission to HCU, along with merit scholarships tied directly to their high school GPA, turning hard work into a concrete college option.
Read more at Click2Houston →Just over 25 percent of Michigan 11th graders met or exceeded the SAT college readiness benchmark this spring, down three tenths of a percentage point from the previous year and lower than a decade ago, new state data shows.
Read more at WSMH Mid-Michigan NOW →The National Testing Agency has released the JEE Main 2027 syllabus on jeemain.nta.nic.in, and it is unchanged from 2026. Paper 1 covers mathematics, physics and chemistry, and candidates can download subject wise topics as a PDF.
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Amina Sharmin C M, a Class 9 student at MES Tanur, and Abhinav A, a Class 10 student at Bhavan's Vidya Mandir, Pottore, will represent India at the Multinational Youth Geography Olympiad in Sochi after winning Resorcio's year long YUDANSHA contest.
Read more at The New Indian Express →Sri Lanka won its first ever silver medal at the 67th International Mathematical Olympiad in Shanghai, after 31 years of taking part. The historic result was led by Lasitha Jayasinghe of Royal International School, Kurunegala.
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Radiant Academy students took the top five ranks in Udaipur in the International Olympiad Qualifier in Mathematics 2026 for Classes 10 and 11, with Anshul Sonawa leading on 50 marks and six students qualifying for the next round.
Read more at Udaipur Kiran →Ekaparnika Sharma, a Class 8 student at Cambridge International School, Palampur, took first place in her age category at the ESU Youth Public Speaking Competition 2026, which drew participants from 530 schools worldwide.
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Lingampalli Himaja describes how RUDHRA, a project her team developed to support visually impaired students, reached the Global Top 20 of the James Dyson Award, a journey that began with visits to a school for visually impaired children.
Read more at The Hindu →MIT News profiles the Beaver Works Summer Institute, launched in summer 2016 after MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Robert Shin was challenged to extend the resources of Beaver Works to some of the brightest engineering students around the US.
Read more at MIT News →The Hindu's weekly list includes the Sakal India Foundation scholarship of up to ₹10,000 for students with at least 85 percent, due 31 October, and the Vahani Scholarship for Class 12 students, offering full tuition, a laptop stipend and travel allowance.
Read more at The Hindu →The PM-USP scholarship scheme offers 82,000 fresh slots worth up to ₹20,000 a year for college students. To be eligible, students must score above the 80th percentile of successful candidates in their stream in the Class 12 board exam.
Read more at News18 →The Swami Dayanand Education Foundation scholarship supports meritorious first year undergraduates in 2026 to 27 from families earning up to ₹12 lakh, in programmes such as B.Tech, MBBS, BDS and B.Arch. It is renewable for up to four years.
Read more at DT Next →Infocepts Foundation's Innovate for Impact Scholarship is open to undergraduate computer engineering, IT, AI, ML and data science students with 60 percent in Classes 10 and 12, family income up to ₹6 lakh, studying in Nagpur, Pune, Chennai or Bengaluru.
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Enroly data shows CAS issuance across its UK university partners fell 23.7 percent for the September 2026 intake, while visa refusals rose 43.5 percent year on year. Only 57.2 percent of accepted students progressed to CAS, down from 76 percent.
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The UK refusal rate for Indian student visa applicants has averaged eight percent over the last three quarters, a PIE analysis finds. India is among seven countries, with Nigeria, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Ghana and Sri Lanka, behind over 70 percent of refusals.
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Arrivals from India on US student visas fell 39 percent in August from a year earlier, the third straight annual decline in the peak month. Consultants cite visa delays, stricter screening and uncertainty over post study work.
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UK sponsored study visa applications fell 10.3 percent year on year in September 2026, reaching a five year low for the month, amid tighter immigration rules and growing financial pressure on universities that rely on international students' fees.
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Business Today sets out US visa appointment waits across Indian cities for October 2026. Tourist and business applicants may wait nearly a year, while student visa applicants generally find appointments much sooner.
Read more at Business Today →Under its 2026 to 2028 Immigration Levels Plan, Canada will limit new temporary resident arrivals to 385,000 in 2026 and 370,000 in each of 2027 and 2028, admitting fewer international students and foreign workers, while keeping its permanent residency target at 380,000.
Read more at Deccan Herald →Canada welcomed 37,090 new study permit holders in August 2026, nearly six times the number in earlier months. But new student arrivals from January to August were down 71 percent compared with the same period in 2024.
Read more at The Indian Express →A recruitment veteran writing for ICEF Monitor analyses Australia's latest student visa changes across five South Asian markets, arguing that some policy shifts make families reconsider whether Australia is the right destination at all.
Read more at ICEF Monitor →The Guardian speaks to international students such as Fatima Bonna in Adelaide, who memorised her visa conditions on work hours and dependants but now feels overwhelmed by uncertainty after this month's changes to student visas.
Read more at The Guardian →New Zealand refused more than 2,500 student visa applications a month in July, August and September, up from about 800 a year earlier, amid a surge in dubious applications and fears that crackdowns elsewhere have made it a target for fraudsters.
Read more at Times Higher Education →New Zealand's education minister Erica Stanford announced support for schools to recruit international students, including schools without established international programmes that have struggled to enter the market, while continuing to build capability across the sector.
Read more at The PIE News →The University of Manchester will set up a centre in Bengaluru, giving the UK university a permanent base to expand its academic, research and industry partnerships with Indian institutions and companies.
Read more at News18 →ICEF Monitor compares the cost of attending a foreign branch campus in India with study abroad and domestic options, including by programme length, and notes that the lack of outcomes data for these new campuses will pose a challenge.
Read more at ICEF Monitor →Hyderabad students heading to the UK are being advised to verify their chosen university's student sponsor licence on the UK government website before accepting an offer, paying a deposit or applying for a visa.
Read more at The Siasat Daily →A guide compares dependant rules across popular study destinations, covering whether a spouse may accompany an international student, whether that spouse may work, and whether children may attend school in the host country.
Read more at Education Times →Government data shows 31,665 foreign students on D-2 or D-4 visas were staying in South Korea illegally as of August. Nearly 30 percent of language study visa holders are overstaying, with Vietnamese nationals the largest group.
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As the two largest US school districts impose one year AI bans, THE Journal draws on learning science to suggest when AI genuinely helps students learn, weighing the pressure to build tech skills against the value of learning foundational knowledge.
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Nearly 100 students at LaGuardia High School, the Manhattan arts school that inspired Fame, walked out of class on Tuesday to demand a freeze on AI over fears for their future careers, part of a day of anti AI protests at schools and colleges.
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CBS News visits Alpha School in Chicago, part of a private, for profit network with no traditional teachers, where students like 13 year old eighth grader Zane Shah learn their academics through AI in about two hours a day.
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Teachers' union APESS wants a moratorium on AI in lower secondary classes and a radical curriculum overhaul, saying Luxembourg's schools prepare pupils for a cognitively routine middle class that AI and robotics are likely to eradicate.
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Some US teachers tell ABC News they use AI every day, to develop lesson plans and more, while others are still looking for guidance on how to use it well as artificial intelligence reshapes K-12 classrooms across the country.
Read more at ABC News (AP) →When AI can produce polished work in seconds, schools that have long rewarded the correct answer and the polished essay need to redefine high achievement, an EdSurge essay argues, rewarding genuine intellectual curiosity over automated perfection.
Read more at EdSurge →Pandemic relief money paid for a big expansion of high dosage tutoring, a tool proven to help students. With that money gone, EdSurge reports, districts face a hard question about how to keep their programmes running.
Read more at EdSurge →Education Next talks to Daniel Ansari, who directs the Numerical Cognition Laboratory at Western University in Ontario, about whether the science of reading has an analogue in maths and what research shows about how children develop number skills.
Read more at Education Next →A 20 year longitudinal study finds that children exposed to social emotional learning in preschool are more likely to report higher wellbeing as young adults. SEL teaches non academic skills such as managing emotions, cooperation and building relationships.
Read more at Education Week →Nearly all surveyed US teachers say they provide mental health support to students, spending about eight hours a week on student wellbeing, and half say this task has recently become harder, according to a RAND analysis.
Read more at K-12 Dive →A new report finds high school students oppose full day cellphone bans over safety concerns, and urges policymakers to consult students before imposing restrictions, with clear emergency protocols and accommodations built in.
Read more at K-12 Dive →Andhra Pradesh has directed about 80,000 government school teachers of Classes 6 to 8 to complete an online AI Foundations and Literacy programme by the end of October, combining the AI Samarth course with resources from Bodhan AI.
Read more at EdexLive →More than half of Korean schoolteachers now use AI at least weekly, but only about one in six are familiar with the laws and guidelines governing it, leaving them to manage hallucinations, privacy risks and ethical questions largely on their own.
Read more at Korea JoongAng Daily →AI in the classroom is growing more sophisticated at Cornell. Next semester, Scott Seidenberger's AI and HR course will be mostly device free, with one exception, a small white robot with lopsided camera lens eyes and a custom built AI.
Read more at Cornell Chronicle →A new Ohio state policy creates pathways into more advanced maths coursework for high achievers starting in fourth grade, K-12 Dive reports, though some educators have raised concerns about the approach.
Read more at K-12 Dive →K-12 Dive examines the popular science of reading approach to literacy instruction, noting that schools still face obstacles, including that implementation and teacher support focus mainly on younger students rather than older readers.
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NCERT has released an activity based, 20 hour introductory module on computational thinking and AI for Classes 9 to 12, covering everyday AI, how machines learn from examples, detecting deepfakes and the ethical boundaries that protect personal data.
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CBSE's revised three language framework, which aims to promote Indian languages, is likely to reduce demand for foreign language teachers in schools, educators say, with effects reaching beyond the classroom to teachers' employment prospects.
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Seat capacity across the IITs grew 13.4 percent from 16,598 in 2022 to 18,826 in 2026, JEE Advanced data shows, driven by new academic programmes and the female supernumerary seat system, whose seats have more than doubled.
Read more at The Indian Express →The deadline for CBSE schools to submit the list of candidates for 2026 to 27 Class 10 and 12 board exams was 21 October. Late submissions are allowed until 30 October with a fee of ₹2,000 per student.
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The National Testing Agency has released a tentative calendar listing 14 national level examinations scheduled from December 2026, including JEE Main, CUET UG and UGC NET. Candidates can check the dates on nta.nic.in.
Read more at News18 →The Supreme Court has ruled that students entering professional courses such as medicine or engineering should know their full financial liability from the outset, barring mid term fee hikes except in extraordinary circumstances.
Read more at The Hindu →BITS Pilani has redesigned its undergraduate curriculum for the AI era, with greater academic flexibility and stronger integration of research, industry practice and student wellbeing, according to group vice chancellor V Ramgopal Rao.
Read more at The Indian Express →An HP survey finds most Indian students say AI helps them finish tasks faster but worry it may stop them understanding material in depth. As many as 82 percent prefer handwriting or printing notes when they want to remember what they studied.
Read more at The Indian Express →IIT Mandi's GUESSS India 2025 survey of 25,783 students from over 1,200 institutions found that 22 percent have already started a business, close to the global average of 23 percent, with 43 percent aspiring to entrepreneurship.
Read more at The Indian Express →Four of the five Lighthouse Learning schools that took the 2025 PISA for Schools assessment scored above the OECD reference average in reading, mathematics and science, the group says, including Billabong High International School campuses.
Read more at Entrepreneur India →Maharashtra will require children to be at least six years old for Class 1 admission from the 2030 to 31 session, with a staged rollout of the new age rules beginning with nursery admissions in 2027 to 28.
Read more at Education Times →NCERT is developing a model under NEP 2020 to train teachers in multilingual pedagogy and applied linguistics, so that educators can teach more than one language, as the council expands its academic role.
Read more at News18 →The MP Board of Secondary Education has revised its paper rules for Classes 9 to 12. From the 2027 exams, internal choices will be removed from two mark questions in core subjects, while options in three and four mark questions continue.
Read more at News18 →A report finds 47 percent of international graduates who study in India leave, while 63 percent of overseas educated Indians stay abroad, highlighting India's challenge in attracting, retaining and connecting skilled global talent.
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Researchers who spoke with 39 young people say ecological grief is growing and the current approach to climate education may be harming rather than helping them, failing to help students face fear, grief and anxiety head on.
Read more at The Conversation →IISER Pune has developed Jugnoo, an eight page, full colour climate education tabloid for children, who are exposed to floods, heatwaves, pollution and ecological loss but given few accessible ways to understand what those changes mean.
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A Lumina Foundation and Gallup survey of 2,500 employers found 48 percent believe AI will make college degrees more important, despite fears that AI will replace many entry level white collar jobs.
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UNESCO showcases Hong Kong schools where students explore renewable energy, biodiversity and marine ecosystems, investigate local microclimates and look at how their own schools can become more sustainable by measuring their surroundings.
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The IMF's October 2026 Asia and Pacific outlook finds employer demand for AI exposed occupations fell by nearly 10 percent relative to less exposed jobs since ChatGPT launched in November 2022, some of the first evidence of the shift.
Read more at The Indian Express →The HP Futures 2026 report, which surveyed 758 Indian students, found 78 percent expect AI to create more jobs than it replaces, even as many worry it affects how deeply they understand and retain what they learn.
Read more at EdexLive →Syntax that once took a semester to master can now be generated in seconds, a Hindu column argues, so aspiring engineers must develop judgement about what to build, why it matters and how the pieces of a system fit together.
Read more at The Hindu →Across India, young people are turning storytelling, original content and intellectual property into sustainable careers on digital platforms. The Hindu asks whether universities, built on the promise of a degree followed by a stable job, are preparing students for this path.
Read more at The Hindu →A report says demand is surging for forward deployed engineers in India's AI sector, with 80 percent of engineers in explicit FDE roles earning ₹40 lakh to ₹1 crore a year, though a major skills gap remains in production AI deployment.
Read more at News18 →Divit Garg, a Class 12 student at Inventure Academy, built The Unboxed School, a classroom and playscape inside a shipping container, to reduce learning disruptions for children of migrant workers living at temporary construction sites.
Read more at News18 →Rehaan Chowdhary, a student at Nord Anglia International School Dubai, founded The Prosperity Project in 2025 and has reached 420 learners across West Bengal and Maharashtra with workshops on budgeting, saving, borrowing and everyday financial decisions.
Read more at EdexLive →The 2026 I Wish Survey of Female Students' Attitudes to STEM found that just over one in four girls at single sex schools have access to computer science at Leaving Cert level, warning that subject barriers could leave them behind.
Read more at Silicon Republic →Singapore's universities are boosting career support with work placements, practical learning and courses focused on AI, interdisciplinary skills and real world problem solving, plus networking, coaching and lifelong alumni support in a tougher graduate job market.
Read more at The Straits Times →Times Higher Education offers advice on embedding sustainability education in institutions whose structures resist change, citing challenges such as leaders' unclear vision of a sustainable future and staff struggling to understand key terms.
Read more at Times Higher Education →Coca-Cola Hong Kong and bottling partner Swire Coca-Cola HK launched the Coca-Cola Recycling Academy, an education initiative designed to make Hong Kong's local recycling journey more visible, accessible and relevant to everyday life.
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