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Monday, May 13, 2024
TopicHigher education

Topic: higher education

Higher education isn’t a guarantee for positive employment outcomes

Gerbrand Tholen -
There isn't enough evidence to suggest that superior employment outcomes are a result of skills and knowledge students acquire in higher education.

Surgical Strike Day a plot to curb student activism or move to instil national pride?

ThePrint Team -
A University Grants Commission (UGC) circular asked varsities and higher education institutions to observe 29 September as Surgical Strike Day. It also suggested a...

Given Left’s grip on colleges, arranging marriages are easier than holding seminars in India

Chandrachur Singh -
The malaise towards Indian higher education has made our railway platforms cleaner and technologically better equipped than classrooms.

Forget funds crunch, half of India’s universities don’t even utilise 50% of their grants

Kritika Sharma -
Of 162 state universities, 70 have used less than half their central govt grants, with 20 spending less than 30%.

Indian tribal students are learning Sanskrit to find jobs

Nikhil Rampal -
7.5% of seats in the Shiksha Shastri course are reserved for STs, but they account for nearly 30% of all students in the course across India.

Tepid response to AAP’s higher education loan scheme, only 19 apply this year

Rajgopal Singh -
The scheme, one of Kejriwal’s prominent poll promises, has seen a mixed response in the four years of AAP rule.

Why middle-aged entrepreneurs are better than young ones

Sukanlaya Sawang -
The probability of success increases once people reach 25, then performance seems steady among people aged between 25 and 35.

St Stephen’s College to head the list as govt pushes to grant autonomy to 130 institutions

Kritika Sharma -
India has 868 higher education institutions, and the plan is to grant autonomy to 15%. A list of 62, including JNU & BHU, was released last month.

India’s central universities have modern sensibilities, but are also deeply conservative

Devesh Kapur -
The extreme degree of centralisation in the UGC system that has grown 60-fold since 1950 has had negative effects on the quality of higher education in India.

After directors’ protest, IIM boards will now need two-thirds majority to remove them

Anubhuti Vishnoi -
Committee to frame the rules of the new IIM Act decides against granting the directors’ demand to give the govt a say in their removal.
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Opinion

Disability rights intersects with economy, commerce, health. Policy should reflect that

Nipun Malhotra -
Another pressing issue plaguing the disability sector in India is the absence of proactive initiatives from state governments. This is despite disability being a state subject.

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Economy

Brokerages & hedge funds make a killing as India’s inexperienced youth flocks to the equity market

+TFP TCA Sharad Raghavan -
Indians aged 20-30 are trading in options market in droves, but know nothing about it & so keep losing money. If losses mount, it could undo gains India saw in investment culture, analysts fear.

Defence

Pensionless Maha Vir Chakra awardee who trained Mukti Bahini continues to fight for rights

Smruti Deshpande -
Chiman Singh, injured in 1971 India-Pakistan war, was discharged as non-pensioner in 1972. In his petition, he states denial of pension is contrary to settled law.

National Interest

What’s common between Netflix Chamkila and Trudeau’s trouble-infested Canada? They don’t get Punjab

Shekhar Gupta -
Even in the weeks leading up to Chamkila’s assassination there were massacres every other day. To airbrush all of this is sheer intellectual cowardice if not a crime.

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