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IIT-The Road Ahead
Education Times Division of Times of India is starting a new feature “Interaction” As part of the new initiative they had organized a Panel Discussion on IIT-The Road Ahead on October 31, … more →
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IIT-The Road Ahead
ssemergic wrote 1 month ago: Education Times Division of Times of India is starting a new feature “Interaction” As pa … more →
IIT faculty on hunger strike
ssemergic wrote 2 months ago: Without hurting teaching and other academic activity the faculty members of the prestigious IITs (In … more →
9th Convocation of IIIT-Bangalore today
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ssemergic wrote 5 months ago: 131 M Tech students received their degrees from Mr. NR Narayana Murthy, Chairman Infosys and Chairma … more →
It is great to be a teacher, particularly in India
ssemergic wrote 5 months ago: With 600 teachers from all across India and nearly 100 faculty members (mainly from US), the month-l … more →
India is the only country where scholars (not soldiers) are in higher pecking order!
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ssemergic wrote 6 months ago: Mr Mohandas Pai, Head, Human Resources and Director on the Board of Infosys talked to the distinghis … more →
Karnataka Knowledge Commission gets all Vice Chancellors to a common table
ssemergic wrote 8 months ago: Led by the renowned Dr Kasturirangan, Member of the Parliament (Rajya Sabha) the Karnataka Knowledge … more →
STP students sustained good performance
ssemergic wrote 8 months ago: I had lunch meeting with about 25 students of the STP Program (Special Training Program) today (Apri … more →
IIT KGP student dies, riot follows in campus, Director resigns
ssemergic wrote 9 months ago: In an unfortunate development Rohit Kumar, 3rd Year Electrical Engineering undergraduate, died on Ma … more →
Professor Randy Pausch is no more
ssemergic wrote 1 year ago: CMU Professor Randy Pausch of “the last lecture” fame is no more. He died of cancer on July 25, 2008 … more →
Assessment challenges in higher education
ssemergic wrote 2 years ago: The education scene in today has challenges & opportunities. Let me focus on three challenges an … more →
Industry – Academia interaction
ssemergic wrote 2 years ago: In the panel discussion sponsored by Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) at IT.in Conference (10t … more →
“You are thrice blessed” sys R Seshasayee, MD, Ashok Leyland in the 7th Convocation at IIIT-B Convocation
ssemergic wrote 2 years ago: You the graduating students are “thrice blessed” 1. You are starting as “knowledge workers”; India a … more →
Advice to graduating students
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ssemergic wrote 2 years ago: Today I had the satisfaction of seeing 418 students complete their graduation requirements at the Ne … more →
Visit to Monash University
ssemergic wrote 2 years ago: Today was the last day in Australia with visits to many facilities in Monash University. Relatively … more →
Visit to Melbourne University
ssemergic wrote 2 years ago: It was yet another eye opener to see University of Melbourne and Melbourne Business School doing so … more →
Education is “software”
ssemergic wrote 3 years ago: It is time the “powers that be” realize education has all the advantages of software; it is “people- … more →
Manoj Pant on Universities
ssemergic wrote 4 years ago: In his recent article in “Economic Times” on Universities, Professor Manoj Pant makes an interesting … more →
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison to donate $ 115 Million to Harvard University
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ssemergic wrote 4 years ago: Oracle CEO is reportedly talking to Harvard University to create an organization that would monitor … more →
MIT Media Lab Asia and Media Lab Ireland to close down
ssemergic wrote 4 years ago: It is unfortunate that the internationalization experiments of the highly successful Media Lab at MI … more →
