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 By Pushkar 16 December
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 By Pushkar 18 November
India’s innovation nation dream is becoming reality India’s surge in patent applications and awards resembles China’s pathway towards becoming a knowledge economy, says Pushkar By Pushkar 9 April
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 By Pushkar 22 May
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 By Pushkar 23 April
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 By Pushkar 24 October
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 By Pushkar 12 September
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 By Pushkar 25 May
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 By Pushkar 28 March
India’s National Education Policy is a positive step – if implemented System consolidation, regulatory simplification and undergraduate flexibility are positive steps, says Pushkar By Pushkar 17 August
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 By Pushkar 27 January
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 By Pushkar 12 June
India’s underemployed graduates are a risky financial bet Rising default rates on education loans could signal trouble ahead, says Pushkar By Pushkar 31 January
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 By Pushkar 8 November
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 By Pushkar 13 September
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 By Pushkar 9 August
Can India’s private universities deliver? The public sector has not expanded quickly enough to meet the demand for college degrees in India By Pushkar 12 July
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 By Pushkar 31 May
