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...Any writer who doesn’t admire what this guy does is probably not being honest with himself, because being the public face of conventional...

In this episode, Mahesh Sharma of Careers 360 demolishes a new claim by IIPM that its students will receive their BBA and/or MBA degrees ...

In the past couple of weeks, three major news outlets issued their rankings: Outlook , India Today and Mint . Before I proceed further,...

"Optional," I believe, is the keyword . Students who wish to apply for Class XI in a school different from where they complete ...

Gangan Prathap (National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi) is the author of this preliminary study (...

Ila Patnaik in The Indian Express : Set the Campus Free : The paper finds that the first element that pulls down the rank of a university...

At Coding Horror Jeff Atwood revisits the Monty Hall problem; he also has some links to several other pieces on this very interesting puzz...

Totally pointless-but-fun links: The Onion : Roger Federer Shows Up On Court With Wii Controller . The Onion : Search for Self Called off...

These links come to us via the University World News . Pervez Hoodbhoy on recent developments in Pakistan: How Greed Ruins Academia : Each...

...The usual justification for trying to make all professors researchers is the argument that teaching and research are inextricably linked,...

Both research and teaching are at the core of what a university is about. From a faculty member's point of view, however, a clear distin...

Kapil Sibal, the HRD Minister in UPA 2.0, has been going around saying a lot of things about his plans for India's higher ed system. The...

This report in the Indian Express by Anubhuti Vishnoi offers a primer on India's "deemed" universities: The UGC panel on hi...

Mahesh Sharma of Careers 360 does the right thing by fact-checking the claims made by IIPM . [Following an alert from a colleague, I fou...

I have always had my doubts about the effectiveness of online video lectures (except perhaps for a small number of highly motivated and dedi...