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.
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.
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.
For many Indians, academic and career ambitions have been inseparable from the practice of going overseas. Will the Coronavirus pandemic radically alter this reality?
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
