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Can’t take education loan off NPA: Finance minister

TRICHY: The union ministry of finance refused to exempt education loans from non-performing asset (NPA) citing that Reserve Bank of India is against the exemption for maintaining credit discipline.  In a letter to the Union finance minister Arun Jaitley, MP Trichy Siva has urged not to bring education loans under NPA since non-payment...
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Universities should pay living wage, minister says

  Universities should pay the living wage as part of a “civic mission”, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams has said. Cardiff University is the only one of Wales’ eight universities with the status of a living wage employer. Accredited firms and organisations pay a higher minimum wage than the...
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