A narrow education is making engineers oblivious to the importance of human interaction and raising the cost of even simple tasks My time in South Asia has rewarded me with an enigma: why is engineering so expensive here? Why is it often many times more expensive than in Australia, my home? My search for answers led me to shanty towns on the fringes of mega-cities. We compared an award winning Indian factory...
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Broadband Brings Home The Blackboard-Arindam Mukherjee
-Outlook Anyone with internet access can get an education—from the best in their fields The Supreme Court last week allowed online counselling for admission to undergraduate courses in medical colleges. Under the scheme, students applying for all-India seats in medical colleges would be able to receive counselling in choosing their colleges online. While this is but a small development, for just a section of seats in medical colleges across India, coming...
More »Restoring the balance-Vanita Srivastava
-The Hindustan Times In the world of education, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) is a globally recognised Indian brand and so it is hardly surprising that there is so much rush to join them. I went to IIT, so did my husband and father. To keep that 'tradition' alive, I wanted my son to join IIT. And like many other parents, I moved to Kota, considered the 'Mecca' of IIT...
More »UP govt waives off tuition fees for girl students from Class XI to XII
-The Indian Express CM Akhilesh Yadav-led Uttar Pradesh government has waived off tuition fees for girl students of all sections of society from Class IX to XII. "As per the order issued by the state government no tuition fee will be taken from girl students from Class IX to XII," District Inspector of Schools Umesh Tripathi said today. The order would be applicable to all government, aided and non-aided recognised schools of UP...
More »Tamil Nadu: Jayalalithaa condemns anti-Hindi agitation cartoon
-CNN-IBN Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa has condemned the anti-Hindi agitation cartoon and demanded its immediate removal, saying that projecting the anti-Hindi agitation as "violence" is simply unacceptable. She also said that the cartoon suggesting that Tamil students did not understand English hurt Tamil sentiment. There has been a row in Tamil Nadu against a cartoon on the anti-Hindi agitation of 1965, featured in the NCERT textbooks. "Projecting anti-Hindi agitation as...
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