RTI data accessed & reviewed by ThePrint shows 5 IITs set up in 2015-16 in Palakkad, Bhilai, Jammu, Dharwad & Tirupati face challenges even as Centre plans administrative, academic expansion.
Revealing that half of 23 IITs saw average drop of 10 percentage points in placements, parliamentary panel has urged dept of higher education to take measures to enhance employability.
Muzaffarnagar's Atul Kumar had to go through Jharkhand and Madras high courts and the Supreme Court for his admission to IIT Dhanbad, after missing the deadline to pay Rs 17,500 fee by mere seconds.
India's existing mental health system lacks a cultural understanding of caste and is insensitive to Dalit experiences. Also, many Dalits don't have the capital for long-term therapy.
In IIT-D workshop, top public and private technical colleges discussed their best practices, challenges & way ahead to improve mental health grievance redressal mechanisms on campus.
At the Infosys 2022 Prize Ceremony, Infosys founder and billionaire delivered his lecture on challenges that lie ahead for India’s upcoming researchers.
IITs, IIITs, IIMs are giving unprecedented thrust to social sciences & humanities. Focus is on producing 'well-rounded professionals' instead of churning out just plain graduates.
On 29 May 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru defended adding 'reasonable restrictions' to Article 19, arguing that free speech must be balanced with national security and unity.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
Great article, these comments are not it. Imagine getting a PhD in engineering to babysit a bunch of students. Make it campus parents of you really want to force academics into psychoanalysis, cause society is all”fathers are important” until it comes to actually having empathy or parenting.
Since Suman Chakraborty, a computational scientist for his whole life, considering adult undergrad students as children obviously he will name it “campus mothers”. Counselling, especially peer counselling is an extremely important initiative needed at Indian campuses, much appreciated, but call it for what it is.
Idiotic article. Written by fools.
These people must be the products of US affirmative actions. Only US universities, controlled by the woke left, are capable of producing such idiots/fools.
The authors are very accomplished professionals for sure. But this is what misplaced feminism does to “impressionable” young minds. It’s quite clear from the article that during their own “impressionable” years, someone must have drilled feministic non-sense into them.
Instead of focusing on the prevention of frequent student suicides at IITs/IISc/IISER, they are busy fighting the imaginary ghost of patriarchy in an urgently required initiative. For them the lives of young students can take the backseat while they battle “patriarchy and misogyny”.
Great article, these comments are not it. Imagine getting a PhD in engineering to babysit a bunch of students. Make it campus parents of you really want to force academics into psychoanalysis, cause society is all”fathers are important” until it comes to actually having empathy or parenting.
Since Suman Chakraborty, a computational scientist for his whole life, considering adult undergrad students as children obviously he will name it “campus mothers”. Counselling, especially peer counselling is an extremely important initiative needed at Indian campuses, much appreciated, but call it for what it is.
Wokeism at its height
Idiotic article. Written by fools.
These people must be the products of US affirmative actions. Only US universities, controlled by the woke left, are capable of producing such idiots/fools.
Never thought such a day would come.
Our nation labels every feminine thing it reveres as Mother…Ganga ,Cow; Bharat, Earth & so on.
The first line of article says ….calling them Mothers is a reductive measure ?♂️?♂️.
Just to soothe them…Allen has ” Allen Papa” for kids preparing for NEET, JEE.
The authors are very accomplished professionals for sure. But this is what misplaced feminism does to “impressionable” young minds. It’s quite clear from the article that during their own “impressionable” years, someone must have drilled feministic non-sense into them.
Instead of focusing on the prevention of frequent student suicides at IITs/IISc/IISER, they are busy fighting the imaginary ghost of patriarchy in an urgently required initiative. For them the lives of young students can take the backseat while they battle “patriarchy and misogyny”.