higher education

A lecture hall at IIT-Kharagpur. Credit: ambuj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Mediocrity in Higher Education Is a Bigger Blow Than India Acknowledges

Pushkar 29/09/2018

For how long can a nation claim to be...

Chennai: At an outreach activity with a local organisation, Pudiyador, members of the faculties of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences and the Chennai Mathematics Institute observe zero shadow day with children and volunteers at 12:07 pm on April 24, 2018. Credit: Varuni P.

Debate: Science Outreach Is Multifarious and Inclusion Needn’t Be Direct

Varuni P. 28/08/2018

Greater institutional involvement in planning curricula has the potential...

It remains to be seen whether state governments will be happy just having IITs or whether they’ll push for them to become centres for research and change. A lecture hall at IIT Kharagpur. Credit: ambuj/Flickr, CC BY 2.0

Do Most Graduates of Our Education System Not Contribute to the Economy?

Gangan Prathap 07/06/2018

There is such unevenness that our higher education system...

IIT Kanpur. Source: iitk.ac.in

Indian Flagship Programme to Retain Young Scientists Hits Rough Patch

T.V. Padma 11/01/2018

About 35% of the initial batches of INSPIRE faculty...

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Budget 2017 Extends India’s Streak of Poor Spending on Research

T.V. Padma 04/02/2017

Scientists think there is a mismatch between the government's...

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Women in Science: The Mathematicians of Surathkal

Nandita Jayaraj 30/08/2016

Five scholars from NIT Surathkal talk about the struggles...

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Crosstalk: Remembering What it Means to Be ‘World Class’

Sunil Laxman 20/07/2016

We tend to ignore lessons from history around the...