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It's a year late, but the excerpts at Scroll.in from Rakesh Batabyal's book JNU: The Making of a University are interesting. Here...

Some of you may know about the DST Centre for Policy Research (DST-CPR) at IISc , which is a part of a network of five Centres set up with f...

In The Telegraph today , Prof. Venki Ramakrishnan (who will visit India soon for a vacation and a lecture tour) says a lot of sensible thin...

The three purposes of the University?--To provide sex for the students, sports for the alumni, and parking for the faculty. -- Clark Kerr, ...

Orinam , an LGBT support and advocacy website, carried a report two days ago -- “To the person who wrote the note”: Bengaluru student respon...

From the Ethicist feature in NYTimes Magazine : Should I Tell My Friend’s Husband That She’s Having an Affair? : ... [If] your assessment i...

… he turned to Mr. K. Narayan, a graduate from our Department at IISc waiting to join the Bhilai Steel Plant that was being created [the sto...

The IMPRINT India initiative website has quite a bit of information about its focus domains each of which is subdivided into several sub-th...

A lot of hue and cry is raised about our higher education institutes not figuring in global ranking. The reason is not lack of high quality ...

That's the name of a new initiative "to develop a roadmap for research to solve major engineering and technology challenges in ten ...

Anubhuti Vishnoi in The Economic Times : Centre to fund 10 institutes for next 3-4 years to help them find a place among top 100 on global a...

Via Shannon Palus in Retraction Watch ( After court verdict, BMJ retracts 26-year-old paper ), we get links to two devastating BMJ article...

Math with Bad Drawings: What Does Probability Mean in Your Profession? (cartoon) Tim Harford: Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st ce...

SMBC offers a tip . Not likely to work on kids over 4, though.

Robert Lee Hotz has a great article in WSJ on the phenomenon of papers with long author lists (in a recent case, this list is over 24 pages...