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Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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Topic: colleges

College students’ irresponsible partying, bar visits adding to US Covid burden

Students seem to be refusing to police themselves, so even universities that are testing a lot and isolating the sick aren’t able to control the cases.

Moving to college will be lonelier and weirder than ever this year

The back-to-school rituals of US' college-bound have always entailed some drama, but they’re nothing compared with 2020, the year that Covid transformed education.

These colleges want full fees for only online classes. But students say they won’t pay

Students from GGSIPU, DTU and several other institutes are protesting against orders to make payment of full fees, saying they haven't used any campus resources.

Liberal arts universities on par with IITs, IIMs are next on Modi govt’s education plan

The final version of New Education Policy document says the liberal arts institutes will be called Multidisciplinary Education and Research Universities or MERUs.

Indian universities don’t acknowledge sex, forget sexual harassment

There is a lot Indian universities can do to check sexual harassment, but they don’t

Medical education mess: CJI Mishra hears over 100 cases in 5 hours

About 50 medical education colleges had moved the apex court in the past few weeks seeking renewal of permission even though the Centre had denied it

On Camera

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

Economists vs statisticians — the battle being fought over the soul of India’s GDP data

Economists say there are weaknesses in India’s GDP data. But statisticians claim the accusations are based on flawed understanding, saying while GDP has problems, the economists are looking in the wrong places.

India and Japan hold 10th round of consultations on disarmament, non-proliferation, and export control

The two sides also discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in outer space security, conventional weapons, and export control

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.