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.
Aug 06, 2020 The NEP is a futuristic document that looks forward to the knowledge economy of the 21st century, one in which India’s participation has been intermittent at best. Will faculty members of these potentially impressive multiversities be able to shape the kind of research that molds not only their productivity, but also their very identities as visionary and effective teachers at the postsecondary level?
Jul 17, 2020 Notwithstanding the withdrawal of the most recent immigration restriction on foreign students, there is widespread fear that this student body will continue to be victimised in the long run – unless the Presidential election in November brings about real change.
Jun 20, 2020 The loss of lives that could have been otherwise avoided, will attract the most serious penalty and incrimination. Institutional authorities must keep this in mind as they consider the decision to open campus while the pandemic continues to pose threat to life.
Jun 04, 2020 In an altered landscape, what can Indian universities do to become attractive options for Indian students planning to go abroad for higher education?
May 26, 2020 All Higher Education experts and surveyors are keenly watching institutional plans for the fall semester. Anxious times continue for Indian students planning higher education in the US in fall 2020, writes Saikat Majumdar.
May 15, 2020 The massive blow suffered by the global middle class in the post-pandemic economic depression, will severely shrink the movement of students to western universities, says author Saikat Majumdar
Apr 20, 2020 This might be a time when the Indian student between college and further study or professional development come to do what students in the post-industrial West have been doing for while – take a break year and make time for local and short-term work, internship and self-directed learning opportunities.
Apr 01, 2020 For many Indians, academic and career ambitions have been inseparable from the practice of going overseas. Will the Coronavirus pandemic radically alter this reality?
Apr 03, 2020 We see them as pits of despair, but, as this book shows, government schools and their unjustly derided teachers give both shelter and alphabet to millions
Mar 27, 2020 As we stand now, we’re lucky if it’s just a Corona-shaped hole in the form of a single semester. On the other end, it can change the structure and the texture of careers forever for students worldwide.
Mar 21, 2020 A brave new world has opened up before our universities. Scratch that, the world has been around for quite a while, but Coronavirus pandemic has driven a mass-exodus into that world, most immediately, into our laptop screen, writes Saikat Majumdar
Mar 10, 2020 The key challenge before the holistic admission process is to keep itself open and sensitive to a socially diverse group of students.
Feb 24, 2020 The three key areas highlighted in the Union Budget 2020 are vocationalisation, digitization, and enhanced foreign direct investment in education in India. However, these measures should not be privileged at the expense of the core concerns of higher education in India.
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Feb 13, 2020 It is beyond comprehension why the classification of categories needs to be made public in our universities. The identification of one’s caste, much like that of race, sex, or even gender, is a private matter.
Jan 29, 2020 Political activism by students has held up a beacon of hope and conscience across the world – from Chile to Hong Kong.
Jan 13, 2020 Was the Monk at the school of Yogis being prophetic when he whispered that one day the whole nation would be painted in the colours of their order?
Jan 06, 2020 Over the past 70 days, the borders of JNU have come down in the most disastrous ways, and the spirit of exchange between the nation and the university, the city and the campus gone toxic in the bitterest way possible.
Dec 24, 2019 The gesture of a smiling young woman offering a rose to a heavily armed male policeman that went viral is a powerful symbol today in the violent country called India.
Dec 18, 2019 Why is this narrative of criminalization so easy to sell to middle-class India? writes Saikat Majumdar
Nov 28, 2019 In India, people have lost faith in the university. We need to have more trust between nation and university, writes Professor Saikat Majumdar
Nov 12, 2019 The nation and its universities have moved farther apart from one another than ever before. In a developing country with an exploding youth population, there are few stories that are more tragic.
Nov 04, 2019 As India builds more private universities that attract the well-heeled, socially disadvantaged students face newer forms of inequity.