Is a college education not for everyone in India? A columnist has dared to voice the blasphemy that spending huge sums on higher education doesn’t always open new doors, writes Pushkar Pushkar 12月 16日
The vice-president is right: Indians need better study-abroad advice The controversy over Dhankhar’s poor choice of words has overshadowed the wisdom of calling for poorer Indians to be better informed, says Pushkar Pushkar 11月 18日
More and better vocational education could help address India’s skills gap Many university graduates choose to remain unemployed rather than take a job they do not consider commensurate with their degrees, says Pushkar Pushkar 5月 22日
India must better balance graduate supply with demand Oversupply of poorly trained workers in some fields contrasts with undersupply in others. Universities and students need better information, says Pushkar Pushkar 4月 23日
India’s engineering drive is seeing the wheels come off Despite their above-average employability, engineering students are hampered by poor-quality provision, says Pushkar Pushkar 10月 24日
India’s bet on liberal arts will fail without more investment Amid languishing quality, introducing what could be a more expensive curriculum to deliver may not boost employability, says Pushkar Pushkar 9月 12日
The pandemic will accelerate higher education’s privatisation in India When the country embarks on recovery from its brutal second Covid wave, public spending on universities is unlikely to be a priority, says Pushkar Pushkar 5月 25日
Casualisation is not a formula for success in Indian universities Government concern has not yielded concrete steps to address chronic faculty shortages and adjunctification, says Pushkar Pushkar 3月 28日
India’s National Education Policy is a positive step – if implemented System consolidation, regulatory simplification and undergraduate flexibility are positive steps, says Pushkar Pushkar 8月 17日
The clouds of violence over Indian campuses have a silver lining India’s students have surprised many observers by standing up together to protest against injustice, says Pushkar Pushkar 1月 27日
Trying to revive Nalanda University’s ancient glory is folly Whatever the romance, students and academics will not flock to a remote part of north-east India, says Pushkar Pushkar 6月 12日
India’s underemployed graduates are a risky financial bet Rising default rates on education loans could signal trouble ahead, says Pushkar Pushkar 1月 31日
Free speech furore underlines Indian government’s controlling tendencies Political efforts to silence academic critics are unlikely to end despite clarification that universities are not obliged to ban them, says Pushkar Pushkar 11月 8日
India may finally be getting serious about research fraud A move to combat India’s love affair with predatory journals is an encouraging sign – even if it took a newspaper exposé to prompt it, says Pushkar Pushkar 9月 13日
India’s ever-decreasing circles of eminence India’s downsized Institutes of Eminence programme has dashed the hopes of those keen to see an improvement in higher education quality, says Pushkar Pushkar 8月 9日
Can India’s private universities deliver? The public sector has not expanded quickly enough to meet the demand for college degrees in India Pushkar 7月 12日
India’s Institutes of Eminence initiative is off to a less than eminent start The initial botched attempt to draw up a shortlist of institutions eligible for extra funding does not augur well, writes Pushkar Pushkar 5月 31日
