By creating a world with equality, we can build societies that are richer, more harmonious and truly and genuinely progressive writes Avantika Jain Kumar, a 12th class student of Sanskriti School, New Delhi The word ‘equality’ doesn’t merely suggest everyone being the same. It instead emphasizes everyone having the same opportunities to succeed, to express, to live without fear and …
Ashutosh Gupta, Country Manager, LinkedIn India, recently spoke at a national education conference about skills-first mindset and how education systems should take this transformation in their stride. We’re here reproducing the keynote (though not verbatim) as an important year-end piece of opinion that also sets in future thought process. India is a land of brimming potential standing at the forefront …
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 …
