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Heidi Ledford in Nature News : We dislike being alone with our thoughts . "Many people would rather endure physical pain than suffer th...

Now that the UGC has issued guidelines for foreign universities to set up shop in India on their own (i.e., not necessarily with an Indian p...

Ram Guha on intellectual dadagiri : By tradition and temperament, Indians are extremely deferential to those older, richer, and more powerf...

Ashok Thakur, Secretary to the Government, Ministry of Human Resource Development: Despite teething troubles, new engineering admission proc...

The biggest news of the week: the Supreme Court scrapped NEET , the medical entrance examinations for UG and PG admissions. In doing so, it ...

Jennifer Carpenter at Science Insider summarizes yet another study whose results would appear to blame women for their low status in scienc...

Brazil: Access to higher education: One exam, one door Last week, 7 million Brazilians participated in a two-days marathon exam to assess...

Bombshell from IIT-K: Faculty Recruitment through JEE Thiruvidaimarudhoor Ananthapadmanabhan An Interesting Times of India exclusive In...

First, a couple of fairly uncontroversial observations. There will always be stiff competition for entry into elite colleges -- even if ...

Dilip D'Souza has an absorbing profile of Kota, Rajasthan , the cram school capital of India. His comprehensive coverage includes a sect...

The Fifth Estate , the "official magazine" of IIT-M, has a wide ranging interview of Prof. V.G. Idichandy [ Part 1 , Part 2 ]. Fir...

He's talking, of course, about the JEE . Here's the concluding paragraph: It is improbable that the I.I.T.’s will ever regain their...

In the U.S., an engineer can do a literature course and earn credits. Why can't an Electrical Engineer in IIT do an elective in the huma...

Apparently, that's something that someone at Quora was terribly interested in , and a revealing tell-all happens. Here's a sample: ...

The scamsters targeted one of India's most high-profile exams: the national entrance exam for admissions to PG programs in medical colle...

It was only a matter of time, and this should not be surprising at all to those who have been watching JEE toppers being claimed by several...

A good catch by commenter Raj : Candidates appearing for JEE prepare either through “self study” or through “specialized teaching (other)”...

Just skimmed through the report on JEE-2011 . It has all kinds of sociological data (though not fine-grained enough for us to perform our ow...

The BusinessStandard has published two responses to a recent allegation by N.R. Narayana Murthy of Infosys that IIT students are not as goo...

And they are willing to take appropriate steps [via Dheeraj Sanghi ] to get more women and more non-engineers in the next incoming cohort:...