Only 9.3 percent of Indian youth ages 17 to 23 are currently receiving technical education, a figure sagging far below the average in countries like China and the United States. If the Indian workforce is going to continue to attract the attention of global IT companies, the country will need to accelerate its technical universities [...]
Each year, $4 billion in tuition and housing leaves India for foreign shores, matched with the even more valuable loss of the country’s brightest students who have the means to pursue higher education in countries such as the U.S., Britain, and Australia. 150,000 are currently studying abroad, and another 100,000 depart every school year; many [...]
This year, Delhi University received 93,000 applications from Indian students. This flourishing number of area youth looking to attend postsecondary school would be a cause for pride, but with only 40,000 seats available, it has turned into a cause for concern.
Part of the problem is that Delhi University, which was until recently the only college [...]
Madras University’s recent announcements of the creation of a virtual university and a digital library are being echoed around the country. The august institution may not be the trendsetter in these circumstances, as technological expansion is spilling out too concurrently for any one source to be the inspiration.
Even before Madras University’s 150th anniversary celebrations kicked [...]
One of the oldest and most prestigious higher education institutions in India is celebrating its 150th birthday. The President of Madras University, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, whose love for the university spans back to his time as a student there, inaugurated the celebrations last week. He urged more research, explaining that “Good teaching emanates from research,” [...]
“Medieval ideas” and the “Talabanisation of Amity” are a few of the epithets being hurled at the actions of the administration of Amity University in Noida. And the cause? A new and stringent enforcement of a dress code that does not allow the students to wear jeans, t-shirts, sneakers, and certain kinds of skirts.
The dress [...]