By Autar Nehru Sanjeev Bikhchandani, a success story of post 1990s entrepreneurial India and founder of Info Edge (owns naukri.com, jeevansathi.com, 99acres.com, shiksha.com), besides several other roles and positions is also one of the co-founders of Ashoka University based in Sonipat. A recent news report by a leading daily quoted him as suggesting drug abuse by the students in Ashoka …
Rankings and league tables acting as the ‘underlying platforms of marketing activity and canvassing’ for institutions in this globalized era, is one of the widespread criticisms in the academic circles. This criticism is not completely unfounded as many HEIs across the world are investing both ways in these rankings to move upward in the table. In India, public institutions of …
The University Grants Commission (UGC) in a bold and sweeping move has amended the UGC Regulations on Minimum Qualification for appointment of Teachers and Other Academic Staff in Universities and Colleges and Measures for the Maintenance of Standards in Higher Education 2018. Now under the new amended regulation candidates who will qualify National Eligibility Test (NET), State Eligibility Test (SET), State …
Most post-budget commentaries for years have remained steadfast in quantitative discourse and more so in case of education sector in India. The significative recommendation of 6% GDP spend on education made by Kothari Commission in 1966 has remained a crossbar for most writers, who dissect budgets for an analysis in this very backdrop. And, since then return disappointed as national …
The final phase of CUET (Common University Entrance Test) 2022 is underway with constituent universities and their affiliated colleges admitting undergraduate (UG) students. Delhi University (DU), the largest central university in India with about 70,000 seats and 67 colleges, has almost completed the admissions through Common Seat Allocation System (CSAS) and so are other 200 universities in the final stages …
Surveys, researches and commentaries on decreasing participation of women in workforce in India, are well documented. These point out to alarming trend whereby the share of working women had decreased significantly in the decade before covid pandemic from 26% to 19%, even though they comprise 48% of the population. The pandemic has actually precipitated this trend. At the same time, …
