Change Agents for Higher Education and Research

14/10/2015

Students may be free to choose, but it's a nightmare for teachers, some of whom are suddenly overburdened while others have barely any workload.

27/07/2015

"The Napoleonic model of the university as a department of state, with faculty treated as (lesser) civil servants, has long thrived in India. Centralisation and bureaucratisation have serious implications — curricular and pedagogical — for universities. Indeed, a major concern of the university community today is the clumsy attempt, initiated by the last government and being energetically promoted today, to standardise the curricula of the central universities, ostensibly to give students more choice."

The modern Indian university has always been yoked to the state project of the moment.

15/07/2015

Hmmm....

Financing options are multiplying for "coder bootcamps" — small, immersive schools that turn out software developers in weeks rather than years.

18/05/2015

It has long been an open secret that engineering colleges ‘share’ faculty members to meet official norms; now there is data to prove it. Official data from eight major States shows that over 90 per cent of engineering

10/05/2015

Release of ORF Mumbai report on the transformation of College of Engineering Pune into an IIT-like institution and the felicitation of Dr FC Kohli, Chairman, Board of Governors, CoEP

08/04/2015

Inputs for Higher Education themes

07/03/2015

MOOCs will most likely be seen as a crucial step forward in the reformation of higher education. But their true impact won’t be felt until students and learners of all kinds have access to digital credentials that are also built for the modern world...

With information technology poised to transform degrees, students will be able to acquire credentials at a fraction of today’s costs.

27/02/2015

http://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/interview-combining-online-and-in-person-education-improves-learning-anant-agarwal-2063537

Combining online and in-person education improves learning– Anant Agarwal - A distinguished computer architecture scientist and professor of electrical engineering at MIT, Anant Agarwal, heads edX, a non-profit, collaborative open-source platform offering massive open online courses (MOOCs). edX boa…

30/01/2015

On the Republic Day, Prof Devang Khakhar, Director of IIT Bombay, launched three Mass Open Online Courses (MOOC) in computer programming, thermodynamics, and signals and systems from the institute’s IITBombayX platform developed in collaboration with edX, a not-for-profit initiative by MIT and Harvard.

The programme, offered free, will give access to high quality, IIT-style education to Indian students in Indian languages.

16/01/2015

This does not portend well for the country!
http://www.indiaeducationreview.com/news/govt-cuts-3900-crore-revised-plan-estimate-higher-education-2014-15/18637

The Government of India has reduced funds for higher education to the tune of Rs. 3,900 crore in its revised budget estimates for the financial year 2014-15.

03/12/2014

How can we strengthen science education in schools so as to create the pipeline of talented budding scientists who then pursue science education at the tertiary levels?

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To kick start online deliberations, ORF has partnered with the Iris Knowledge Foundation to jointly host an online forum for everyone to voice their opinions on a variety of issues related to Science Education in India.

28/11/2014

What are the radical changes that need to be made to Science curricula at the tertiary level to meet the challenges of a knowledge society?

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To kick start online deliberations, ORF has partnered with the Iris Knowledge Foundation to jointly host an online forum for everyone to voice their opinions on a variety of issues related to Science Education in India.

Observer Research Foundation Mumbai has partnered with the Iris Knowledge Foundation to jointly host an online forum for everyone to voice their opinions on a variety of issues related to Science Education in India. Please visit http://edebates.esocialsciences.org/ Join this forum and be a part of d…