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How can one strengthen primary school education in India?
A Mckinsey study on “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools” has many lessons for India. First the report. It tells us that the United States was a world leader in educating i… more →
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How can one strengthen primary school education in India?
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wrote 6 months ago: A Mckinsey study on “The Economic Impact of the Achievement Gap in America’s Schools” has many lesso … more →
Public sector companies eager to hire IIM graduates
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wrote 9 months ago: I have been reading about how IIM graduates are being lured by public sector undertakings (PSU’s) be … more →
Financial Sector tremors and the effect on fresh graduates
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wrote 1 year ago: The world of finance has been shaken by the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the selling of Merrill Ly … more →
Ability and Academic Merit - what's the difference?
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wrote 1 year ago: In our academic dog-eat-dog jungle it’s academic merit that everyone considers the barometer of a pe … more →
IIM graduates are preferring to stay back in India
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wrote 1 year ago: Foreign companies have not upped their salaries much over last year…this is in reference to pa … more →
What's your society's badge of honour?
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wrote 1 year ago: All societies have value systems…values which citizens aspire to reach. They want to possess a … more →
It's not just parents' attitudes which are obstacles in the way of a girl's education
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wrote 1 year ago: Recent NSSO statistics National Sample Survey Organisation say that about 15 percent girls never att … more →
Different education boards creating havoc and heartburn
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wrote 1 year ago: The 85 and 90 percent scorers are not getting admission into “good” junior colleges because of the r … more →
Social conscience can be taught
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wrote 1 year ago: Medical graduates in India avail of subsidized education and in return are expected to serve a year … more →
Your Higher Education
wrote 1 year ago: In the age of computers, the internet, community colleges, on-line courses, private colleges, state … more →
Are Indians feeling the shortage of doctors?
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wrote 1 year ago: India is short of 600000 doctors. This works out to be approximately 1 doctor for about 1560 people … more →
More jobs than ever in India but only in some sectors and only for the educated
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wrote 1 year ago: Two related news items caught my eye recently. First the positive news. Our employment scenario cont … more →
India Budget 2008-2009
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wrote 1 year ago: Here are some aspects (highlights) of the 2008-98 India Union Budget that made the maximum impact on … more →
Do Indian youth really hate the idea of joining the Defense Services?
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wrote 1 year ago: Conscription has been in the news, having been triggered by an innocent remark by General Deepak Kap … more →
India has two of the best design schools in the world!
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wrote 2 years ago: That India is doing well when it comes to design education has been revealed by a survey of Design s … more →
Getting foreign technical degrees just got tougher in India
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wrote 2 years ago: The AICTE (The All India Council for Technical Education) now wants to regulate all ‘unrecognized … more →
Impact of coaching classes on a nation's psyche
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wrote 2 years ago: We all know how critical our parallel education system – the coaching class industry – i … more →
Science vs Humanities
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wrote 2 years ago: People struggle with different kinds of prejudice in society, but there is one which is very deeply … more →
Engineering colleges to be upgraded
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wrote 2 years ago: Only a few elite engineering institutes are recognized outside India today, namely the IITs, the Bir … more →
