Oct 06, 2022 The importance of interpersonal intelligence is clearest around the management of personnel or human resource development. It is, in fact, continuous with every aspect of corporate life that involves the action and behaviour of human beings.
Mar 23, 2022 Though the announcement could have been timed better, the CUET can provide support to the NEP’s vision for a broad, interdisciplinary liberal arts science education.
Feb 12, 2022 Artist Ruchira Gupta's virtual exhibition, 'My Forbesganj Garden' marks the artist’s return to her childhood home in Bihar. Through a series of paintings, she brings her tropical home in the mountain foothills to an evocative, narrative life.
Feb 05, 2022 Could a poet speak in tongues? In other people’s tongues? Tongues yet unborn? Megha, an Indian teacher-poet in the US, creates poetry out of the lives of others — her students
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Jan 15, 2022 The pandemic has made it clear that virtual learning is here to stay. In the West, the big question is whether it will dilute the quality of the college experience and education. In India, which grapples with digital divide, the question remains whether this will reach most people at all.
Jan 01, 2022 Across Asia there are deeply entrenched obstacles to a mode of higher education that is liberal in multiple senses – disciplinary and epistemological but also social and political.
Sep 16, 2021 Rankings largely reinforce the dominant impressions about institutions’ reputations, says little about students’ needs
Aug 18, 2021 What we have is a long-drawn situation of conflict between the fundamental interests of society. Reopening is going to be a long and uneven process, filled with fear and suspicion, more for some than for others.
Jul 28, 2021 Students from the Northeast have seen new waves of clinical racial bias in other parts of India. Will students from India face racial prejudice overseas this fall? In an altered, fearful world, what does it mean for racism against students?
Jul 12, 2021 Abruptly, the pandemic-induced cancellation of exams has pushed us towards the terrain of the future, where the importance of board exam results in college admission decisions will continue to diminish.
Jun 17, 2021 In the time of the Covid pandemic and after, there are a hundred questions staring at students planning to study abroad. Here’s how to tackle some of them.
Jun 23, 2021 In a plague year, what does it mean for a schoolteacher to be the foot solider for the election? Our poorest children have long paid the price of their teachers’ state-mandated absence. Now many of these teachers have paid the price with their lives.
May 17, 2021 When school resumes, let’s not go back to our usual obsession with exams and syllabus. Let’s acknowledge the catastrophe around us and make it part of our children’s experience of growth, learning, and mental health.
Apr 19, 2021 Removing mathematics, physics and chemistry as a basic pre-condition for an engineering course is a short-sighted measure that dilutes and erodes the discipline.
Apr 06, 2021 Those who know the slim volume know what a unique text it is – a polemical, novelistic essay, an unforgettable manifesto from an age of sinewy manifestos, one of the most influential credos of feminism and pacifism are known to humanity.
Apr 01, 2021 Academic freedom is non-negotiable and the State must stay away from affairs of the private education sector
Mar 06, 2021 How has the farmers’ protest movement affected our schools? How are our youngest students shouldering its burdens?
Feb 10, 2021 For all its good intentions, the NEP’s multiple-entry options for college will only further deepen the sharp education apartheid that defines our nation.
Dec 30, 2020 For children from India’s poorest families, a lost year of learning has been the least of their losses. School closure has meant the loss of safe spaces, daily nourishment, and the very experience of childhood.
Oct 29, 2020 The financial sponsors of the US University and its higher administration have often been right-leaning, sometimes reactionary.
Oct 14, 2020 It will be a different universe. We will need an altered sense of values – new personal qualities that will be indispensable in the post-pandemic world of professions.
Sep 30, 2020 Will the Covid-enforced shrinkage of doctoral cohorts have an impact on this question looming over Ph.D. programs in the US? What will happen with doctoral admissions in 2022 and beyond?
Sep 09, 2020 Our identities are remarkably fluid – oppressed one moment, oppressor the next. But it is those exploited by all systems of power – as ‘intersecting systems of oppression’ – whose complaints will be the least heard, because they may not even be voiced.
Aug 16, 2020 It seems unrealistic and perhaps also unreasonable to expect that state and private stakeholders in India will bankroll global campuses as has been done in East Asia and the Middle East.
Aug 10, 2020 As the fall comes along, the choice, for many American colleges is between a potentially fatal reopening and the inevitability of cuts, furloughs and layoffs for employees. Amid this, the most sensible approaches have come to include a variety of hybrid models.