EducationWorld August 16

After completing my five-year bachelors degree in law, I want to pursue a Masters in law as well as an MBA. Can I study for both qualifications simultaneously? Also, will a Ph D enhance my career prospects?

Nalini Rajan, Bangalore

Generally it is impermissible to read for two Masters programmes simultaneously. However, check with the university […]

Observers have predicted a brain drain of researchers from the UK in the aftermath of the vote to leave the European Union as rival countries snap up academic talent.

Jonathan Adams, chief scientist at the consultancy Digital Science, says that the leave vote is a “real concern” and would strengthen the appeal of universities in places […]

When Christine Ortiz imagines her ideal university she sees “no lectures, no classrooms, no majors, no departments”. Students will work on tough practical problems in huge open spaces. If they need to swot up, they will consult the internet, not a lecturer. Her vision is far removed from the traditional model of higher education. But […]

Singapore is home to the best two universities in Asia for the first time, while China and Japan have the highest density of top institutions in the continent, according to the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings 2016.

The National University of Singapore (NUS) claims pole position, while its neighbour Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is in […]

If you ever meet engineering graduates of a Canadian university, take a look at the little finger of their writing hand. In all likelihood, they will be wearing a plain iron ring. This is part of tradition that stretches back to 1922 — and which emerged in the context of early 20th-century bridge collapses — […]

Every researcher in the Netherlands is to be questioned about whether she has committed research misconduct or engaged in “sloppy science” in a major national effort to bolster scientific standards. In response to rising concerns over a “reproducibility crisis” in science and a series of high-profile fraud cases, the country is to commit €8 million […]

Two years ago, Krzysztof Rybinski, a Polish economist heading a private university in Warsaw, was contacted by headhunters from Moscow. They had spotted his profile on LinkedIn and wanted a Russian-speaking European university leader to reform the prominent Narxoz University in Almaty, a city in the far east of vast Kazakhstan, a few hours’ drive […]

The Country Of First Boys And Other Essays by Amartya Sen Oxford University Press; Price:Rs.550; Pages: 276

This collection of essays written at various points by erudite economics Nobel laureate Dr. Amartya Sen, stimulates thought and reflection while being easy to read because of the conversational style and ironic humour, that distinguishes India’s arguably most-loved writer on […]

The political damage being caused by runaway train, bull-in-a-china-shop, eternal gadfly — call him what you will — Dr. Subramanian Swamy, MP, is prompting much head-shaking, if not downright embarrassment, within the inner circles of the ruling BJP whose leadership must be regretting elevating him to the Rajya Sabha in April. Since being inducted into […]

An estimated 180,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from across India fly to universities abroad every year to pursue higher education. The great majority (over 54 percent) enroll in American universities while 11 percent still prefer to study in British higher education institutions.

For adventurous parents/students prepared to invest family fortunes in higher education overseas, the first […]

Instead of leaving the task of promoting and managing industrial and business enterprises to entrepreneurs and businessmen who had a 5,000-year record of establishing the subcontinent as the worlds richest region right until the mid-19th century, post-independence India’s Central and state governments wasted taxpayers money and the huge amounts that our great leaders received as […]

Oil and gas companies, national governments and environment organisations are engaging the services of marine biologists to study aquatic plant and animal life: Paromita Sengupta

With rising global awareness about the importance of preserving and protecting marine flora and fauna and its direct impact on sustainable life on Planet Earth, the study of oceans and water bodies, […]

In collaboration with the Indian subsidiary of the US-based Cisco Systems Inc, the Bangalore-based Parikrma Humanity Foundation (PHF) hosted the Intra Parikrma Spelling Bee finals to mark the launch of Cisco’s CEED technology connecting Parikrma schools in Bangalore, on July 12. CEED ‘boxes’ sponsored by Cisco enable students and staff of all four PHF schools […]

Rajasthan
School ragging lacuna

A class XI student of a private higher secondary girls school near Jodhpur was allegedly ragged and stripped by five of her classmates, prompting police to register a case against the accused and the schools management, says assistant commissioner of police Swati Sharma.

In the absence of a law against ragging in schools, […]

“In the syllabus, we will take care of the differences and we will do standardisation of syllabus so that rural students can also (be) taken care of.”

J.P. Nadda, Union health minister, on the NEET (National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test) Bill, mandating a single common exam for medical and dental courses, which was passed by the Lok Sabha […]

Given that Mumbai University (MU, estb.1857) has 159 years of education management experience, it’s natural to expect it to have streamlined its assessment and examination systems. But as is the case with most of the country’s ancient universities ruined by successive state governments given to beating populism and parochialism drums, administration and academic standards in […]

The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) government, which was voted back into the eastern seaboard state of West Bengal (pop.91 million) for a second consecutive term on May 19 this year, has yet to fulfil its electoral promise to bring “positive change” in the education sector ruined by persistent government interference during 34 years of […]

Even as the legislative assembly election in Uttar Pradesh — India’s most populous (215 million) and arguably most under-governed state — is less than a year away, the auguries for the ruling professedly socialist Samajwadi Party are not good. The state is making national headlines for all the wrong reasons. In September 2013, over 52 […]

Within two weeks of taking charge as Union minister of human resource development (HRD) following a Cabinet reshuffle on July 5, Prakash Javadekar — former minister of environment, forest management and climate change in the BJP-NDA government which was swept to power in General Election 2014 — met with top leaders of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak […]

You have rightly criticised Indian industry for failing to engage with education institutions to design syllabuses and curriculums (cover story, EW July). The predominant mindset within India Inc is that it’s the job of colleges and universities to produce skilled and employable youth. However, with education ministries at the Centre and states infested with lazy, […]

Prakash Javadekar, the newly-appointed Union minister for human resource development (HRD) who assumed charge at Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi on July 5 following a Cabinet reshuffle at the Centre begins his new innings with the goodwill of the entire academic community and the media. In his earlier two-year stint as minister of state for environment, […]