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Over at FiftyTwo , Chinmay Tumbe has a fantastic article titled Kamla , revisiting the history of IIM-Ahmedabad and correcting it to reflect...

Anjali Vaidya at India BioScience : Unaddressed demands remain after research fellowship hike . Uses several quotes from IISc students and f...

Prashant Nanda reports in Mint that MHRD has "allowed" IITs and IIMs to hire engineers, civil servants and other such professiona...

Cat Ferguson, Adam Marcus, and Ivan Oransky in Nature : Publishing: The peer-review scam . "When a handful of authors were caught revie...

The non-resident Indian scientist [Shreemanta Parida], appointed two years ago as chief executive officer of a government vaccine research p...

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

Extra points for the fairer sex at IIMs to encourage "gender diversity" Only 28 per cent of students in IIM-Kozhikode’s last yea...

UGC has announced the rules governing the operation of Indian campuses of foreign universities. Here's a short excerpt about which inst...

Basant Kumar Mohanty reports in The Telegraph on the fairly steep fall in the number of Indian students going abroad. Since the number incl...

Gordon Marino in The Stone : Try a Little Tenderness . The philosophers, the lovers of wisdom, have pondered and written a lot about love,...

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

The Supreme Court has spoken : Other Backward Classes (OBC) students will qualify for admissions if they have 10 % less marks than the el...

On his Ministry’s decision to have a joint venture with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to set up a National Centre for Marine Biodiversit...

Altogether, IITs have a sanctioned strength of 4,712 teaching posts, but only 3,148 are filled. The vacacny stands at 1,564 posts. IIMs have...

Let's start with a cartoon about an insomniac programmer ( Abstruse Goose ). IIM-K becomes the first IIM to breach the 30 percent barr...

Using information unearthed under the RTI Act, The Telegraph 's Charu Sudan Kasturi has been digging into IIMs' choice of Prometric ...

First few links are euphoric or alarmist. As it stands, the Bill doesn't deserve either reaction, because its impact on India's high...

India Today : The Common Admission Test (CAT) that was supposed to go paperless from today has been rescheduled at some centres as the serv...

This story has little that we didn't know (from Rashmi Bansal's report ), but I just wanted to highlight two things which, taken to...

Sunday Tribune has a longish story on Kota's cram schools . Here's an excerpt from the section that talks about the nexus between th...