-IndiaSpend.com The United Nations projects that India's total population will surpass China's much sooner than expected, but even so, data show that India's population is actually declining, says Poonam Muttreja of the Population Foundation of India Mumbai: "What could women do if they wanted fewer children? They were opting for, amongst other things, abortion," says Poonam Muttreja, executive director of the Population Foundation of India. "Abortion rates as a proxy for contraception...
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UGC wants universities to offer up to 40% of courses online. Professors don’t see the point -Kritika Sharma
-ThePrint.in UGC Wednesday asked institutions to make courses available via govt platform SWAYAM. Academics question move, citing issues like need for classroom instruction & lack of infrastructure. New Delhi: The University Grants Commission (UGC) has asked universities to offer up to 40 per cent of the courses in any programme online on SWAYAM, the central government’s Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) platform. Academics have questioned this move, citing issues such as the need...
More »Economist recounts boom-to-gloom experience of Argentina -Joyjit Ghosh
-The Telegraph Kaushik Basu credits country’s intellectual influx and links its downfall to the practice of hyper-nationalism by junta in 1930s Calcutta: The pursuit of hawkish nationalism is detrimental to the growth of a country’s economy, Kaushik Basu, C. Marks Professor of international studies and professor of economics at Cornell University, said at Para in Purulia on Thursday. “We cannot be hyper-nationalistic…,” Basu said while delivering a lecture on “India’s economy and the...
More »Will replacing PhD professors with practitioners work? -Siddharth Singh
-The Hindu Challenges abound in this approach, which needs to be analysed in depth before a policy is announced The University Grants Commission (UGC) has recently announced that it will do away with the mandatory PhD qualification to teach in Central Universities (CUs) spread across the country. It purportedly addresses a shortage of qualified faculty in CUs. According to the Ministry of Education data, there were 10,000 teaching positions lying vacant in...
More »Expensive crash courses, students dropping out of school – how CUET is driving change in higher education -Soniya Agrawal
-ThePrint.in While private school students are dropping out to enroll in crash courses for CUET, those who cannot afford these coaching classes feel they are at a disadvantage. New Delhi: Alarm for Class 12 board exams, that lived rent-free in the minds of students, has now been replaced by the rush to enroll in expensive crash courses to prepare for the Common Universities Entrance Exams (CUET). Introduced in 2021, CUET is a single-window...
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