Campus Experience IIT Delhi’s intensified student well-being infrastructure, including 24x7 counsellor and psychiatrist access with external hospital partners, signals a shift towards campus mental-health ecosystems that are as structured as academic systems.
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Credentials & Degrees The UGC is normalizing **online credit-bearing SWAYAM coursework** as a routine part of degree programs in India, weakening the old boundary between campus-delivered degrees and externally sourced micro-credentials.
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Skilling Startups The rapid rollout of certificate programs in Generative AI and agentic AI at IIT Delhi CEP and IITM Pravartak indicates that elite Indian institutions are formalizing GenAI builder skills into credential-bearing continuing education offerings, competing directly with private edtech nano-credentials.
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Edtech Disruptors Lightspeed’s full exit from **PhysicsWallah** signals that late-stage VC is treating Indian edtech as a **capital-recycling business** rather than a long-duration hypergrowth category.
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Credentials & Degrees By August 2026, over 700 Indian universities and 7,500 colleges adopting the National Credit Framework and more than 3,123 institutions live on the Academic Bank of Credits indicates a systemic shift toward modular, credit-based credential stacking that will make micro-credentials and short courses fungible with degree credits.
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