JNU debate can’t be restricted to which university charges more fees. Reality is public universities today are hard put to maintain financial equilibrium.
India hosts about 54,000 foreign students, but most universities use different criteria for admission. Govt says common entrance test will make things uniform.
Indian research universities lack voice to represent their views. Carnegie Classification in the US will be a good starting point for India to learn from.
A University Grants Commission (UGC) circular asked varsities and higher education institutions to observe 29 September as Surgical Strike Day. It also suggested a...
The kinds of revisions we’re seeing remove the very skills that make historical thinking meaningful. The result is a citizen who either dismisses history entirely or defends it without support.
Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
VP Singh announced reservations for OBC merely to thwart Devil Lal, a politician who could very well have cut the ground from under his feet. The announcement in fact was made the evening before the massive KISAN rally which Devi Lal had called for in Delhi.
Here is the bottom line. A public University should naturally be less expensive than a private University since the former is supported by the taxpayers. However, even in a public University, students must pay a fair market rate for the education they get. If education is free (or almost free), the system degenerates to what we have today – it breeds a class of freeloaders who hang around Universities for decades creating trouble on campus and using their trouble making abilities to pursue political aspirations outside the Universities. Those who cannot afford to pay should have access to scholarships and loans, but there must be premium on higher education so that everybody takes it seriously. We need to make the Marxists in the humanities and social studies departments on University campuses compete for attracting students to their departments in a competitive market place – instead of having them regurgitate the stale western ideas that have little relevance to the Indian society. When we are paying for these public Universities, we need to ask tough questions on whether adding anything to the nation and nation building.
India talks big but does very little. Ranked 132 out of 192 countries in the world. 56 inches is a useless boast.
VP Singh announced reservations for OBC merely to thwart Devil Lal, a politician who could very well have cut the ground from under his feet. The announcement in fact was made the evening before the massive KISAN rally which Devi Lal had called for in Delhi.
Here is the bottom line. A public University should naturally be less expensive than a private University since the former is supported by the taxpayers. However, even in a public University, students must pay a fair market rate for the education they get. If education is free (or almost free), the system degenerates to what we have today – it breeds a class of freeloaders who hang around Universities for decades creating trouble on campus and using their trouble making abilities to pursue political aspirations outside the Universities. Those who cannot afford to pay should have access to scholarships and loans, but there must be premium on higher education so that everybody takes it seriously. We need to make the Marxists in the humanities and social studies departments on University campuses compete for attracting students to their departments in a competitive market place – instead of having them regurgitate the stale western ideas that have little relevance to the Indian society. When we are paying for these public Universities, we need to ask tough questions on whether adding anything to the nation and nation building.