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Sleeper Cells: Law schools' 'dormant' legal aid clinics

A law college survey by the Supreme Court's policy centre found that a worrying number of legal aid clinics do little more than hold legal awareness camps, despite NALSA, BCI rules. This leaves gaps in legal education

Law's new niche frontiers

How niche law programmes are blending science with legal expertise, transforming legal education and creating specialised career paths

'GP Sir's classes' a ray of hope for the poor

Shrishti (name changed), 31, hails from the Valmiki community based in Gurdaspur, Punjab; she was born into a family of safai karamcharis - cleaners and at 21, married into another.

DU Law Faculty is part of CLAT 2025 but plans own exam: Dean

Delhi University's Faculty of Law will admit to its BBA LLB and BA LLB courses through the CLAT exam this year.

Studying law through films, novels, comics

Law schools are using various art forms - films, comics, theatre, puppetry

Legal education meets AI

As artificial intelligence reshapes industries, India’s leading law schools are introducing specialised courses and research initiatives, often in collaboration with technical institutions. But the need for comprehensive regulations persists

A LEGACY IN CRISIS

Asia's oldest law college and alma mater to legal luminaries, Government Law College, Mumbai, now grapples with declining standards, administrative apathy, and students' shifting educational aspirations

Law Colleges for 2025

Careers360 has ranked 100 law colleges and rated over 185 institutions, categorising them into distinct zones and states, for a comprehensive overview of legal education

IIT Madras introduces another quota

After admitting five students via the sports quota in 2024-25 - a first among the IITs Indian Institute of Technology Madras has now introduced another quota for \"fine arts and culture excellence\".

CLAT answer keys and court cases

Many Common Law Admission Test (CLAT) candidates claimed to find mistakes in its provisional and final answer keys.

Distance degrees and a legal deadlock

Bar Council of Telangana's interpretation of a 2018 Madras High Court ruling is forcing law graduates with distance education degrees to seek Supreme Court intervention

The domicile quota debate

NLSIU Bangalore's land deal fetched CLAT 2025 aspirants 10 more seats in a premier law school. Domicile quotas in RGNUL, MNLU, GNLU, NALSAR and others, their varying criteria, remain a fractious issue

Universities have an 'archaic view' of AI

Kaustubh Shakkarwar sued Jindal Global Law School over AI use and allegations of plagiarism in an exam. He sought rules for AI in academia. Here's how that case originated

NLU Tripura is helping close to 500 villages plan their future

The NLU is a 'technical partner' for a project to revamp gram panchayats in Tripura. It will help them with their plans and connect them to legal aid .

Law courses mushrooming but without teachers, infra

The five-year LLB has overtaken the original postgraduate three-year LLB, in terms of the number of programmes on offer. There are over 1,600 courses available in each format

MNLU Mumbai in new campus in 2 years

Established in 2014 as the country's 18th National Law University (NLU), Maharashtra NLU, Mumbai, has emerged as one of the most sought-after legal education institutes in the country.

New-age law schools make their mark

Although very new, BITS, SHIV Nadar and IIULER have made significant strides in a short span of time; plan to change the landscape of legal education

Legal education's vernacular challenge

Despite government's push for regional languages in legal education, law schools grapple with faculty diversity, resource constraints and concerns over students' future employability

100 Best Business Schools In The Country

For Careers360's 2025 B-school ranking, we ranked 100 public and private management institutions and rated over 500, dividing them into zones and city clusters

'We have a completion rate of 80-90%'

During an interaction, Mayank Kumar, co-founder and managing director of upGrad, spoke to Sheena Sachdeva about new courses in accounting and management, the profile of learners, trends in online MBA courses, and more. Edited excerpts from the conversation below

New roles and spaces

Online MBA has helped many working professionals climb up the office hierarchy or even pivot to an entirely new career. But there are challenges.

'Committed to industry-relevant learning'

International Management Institute (IMI), New Delhi, is India's first corporate-sponsored B-school. It offers three PG diplomas in management - the flagship PGDM with 300 seats, as well as human resource management and business and financial studies with 60 each. Himadri Das, director general, IMI, discussed the challenges posed by competition among private business schools, the importance of diversity, and IMI's NIRF rankings with Sanjay. Edited excerpts from the interview.

National Insurance Academy plans expansion to meet rising demand

The National Insurance Academy (NIA), now situated in Pune, was established jointly by the ministry of finance and all the major public sector undertakings (PSUs) in insurance. Originally a training institute for insurance industry professionals, it has been offering a postgraduate diploma in management (PGDM) since 2004 and has placed 100% of its students all through.

The era of MBA in sustainability

As companies are increasingly pushed to meet environmental compliances, management institutes are revamping their curricula with specialised MBA programmes in sustainability or launching new programmes

Despite good record, SRCC's PGDM faces degree hurdle

Delhi University's Shri Ram College of Commerce started its postgraduate diploma in Global Business Operations (GBO) 25 years ago. Principal Simrit Kaur spoke to Shradha Chettri on their effort to convert the diploma into a degree programme, changes required in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) and more. Edited excerpts

Managing produce, from farm to plate

Agribusiness managers are in great demand, both on the 'input' side of agriculture - seeds, fertilizer, machinery businesses - as well as in the processing of the 'output'

Creating 'innovators with conscience'

The SP Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, has been the top Indian institution in the Financial Times' (FT) Masters in Management rankings for two years in a row. Varun Nagaraj, dean of SPJIMR, spoke to Atul Krishna about what the institute does differently, its plans, the future of business education, and the FT and National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) lists. Edited excerpts below

'Quality management education that is equitable': FMS Dean

The Faculty of Management Studies (FMS) at the University of Delhi (DU) is one of India's premier business schools offering MBA courses at a relatively low cost, compared to most leading business schools in India. Celebrating its 70th year, it is also one of the first university-based business schools. In an interview with Sanjay, head and dean of FMS A Venkat Raman spoke about the functioning of a business school under a central university, challenges, courses and future plans. He also spoke on the Common Admission Test (CAT) and its impact on diversity in student cohorts. Edited excerpts

'THE CAMPUS IS AMAZING'

Four new IIMS - Bodh Gaya, Sambalpur, Jammu and Visakhapatnam - have found their permanent homes and they are beautiful, environment friendly and efficient campuses. Here's a quick tour.

'XLRI's Mumbai campus will focus on finance, Amravati on international partnerships'

Founded in 1949, XLRI Jamshedpur is India's oldest business school and it just celebrated its platinum jubilee. Now, the 75 year-old private institution has hit another growth spurt with new campuses in the works. Its Amravati campus will focus on international collaborations; Mumbai, on finance courses; and in Delhi, an automobile design school is planned. Father S George, S.J., director, XLRI Jamshedpur, spoke to Sheena Sachdeva about upcoming campuses, new courses, placements, partnerships with Indian and international universities and more. Edited excerpts