Indian universities are redesigning assessments to evaluate student reasoning and accountability. Traditional take-home assignments are being replaced by vivas and in-person examinations. Some institutions integrate AI, grading students on how they direct and verify machine outputs. In Section 3 of AI Campus File, we discovered AI use is becoming a key aspect of academic integrity. The focus is now on demonstrating ownership of thinking rather than just the final answer. Some institutions are tightening the assessment environment through vivas, controlled examinations and AI restrictions. At IIIT Hyderabad, the institution is taking a policy-development route. A faculty committee is working on a responsible-AI policy, with the proposed distinction centred on AI-assisted components versus intellectual responsibility for integration, architecture, validation and explanation. The policy was still awaiting broader faculty and Academic Council deliberation in the supplied response.

IIIT Hyderabad’s Division of Flexible Learning (DFL) announced that applications are open for Cohort 3 of its 12-week certificate program, “Agentic AI: From Concepts to Practice”. This executive education program is suitable both for early careers as well as experienced working professionals and will transform them from being AI users to AI engineers. It will teach them how to design, build, deploy and operate production-ready agentic AI systems. This intensive 12-week programme, requiring approximately 12 hours of learning per week, is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of Agentic AI systems. The programme combines live online interactive classes, recorded lectures, hands-on labs and practical projects, culminating in a planned campus immersion at the Indian Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) Hyderabad towards the end of the programme.

India’s contingent at the International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) 2026 in Romania has bagged one gold medal, three bronze medals and an honourable mention, continuing the country’s record of winning medals at the international competition for pre-university students, IIIT Hyderabad said in a statement. Shrilakshmi Venkatraman won the gold medal, while Aarav Anil Rao, Nishanth Shankar Lakshmanan and Advay Misra secured bronze medals. Soham Amit Pednekar received an honourable mention. The competition brings together school students from more than 40 countries and tests their ability to identify patterns in unfamiliar languages using logic and analytical reasoning. According to the Panini Linguistics Olympiad (PLO), at IIIT Hyderabad, the Indian contingent has so far won 37 medals: six Gold, nine Silver and 22 Bronze, along with nine ‘best solution’ awards, 19 honourable mentions and other team-level honours.