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Note to teachers: Stand out of students’ sunlight

September 07, 2026 7:35 am

Though Nietzsche dances in their classrooms, they ignore texts like ‘Twilight of the Idols’ that criticise this neediness of the teacher to be the recipient of bhakti: ‘Thou seekest followers? Then thou seekest ciphers’

For academic ghar wapsi that endures, India must first fix basics at home

December 01, 2025 11:50 am

The depressing truth is that India has never invested thought, money or energy to do justice to the human resource pool of a populous post-colonial nation

Jayant Chaudhary writes: A network of residential schools integrating sports and academics — that’s what we need to nurture sports champions

April 09, 2025 9:06 am

This model wouldn’t just produce medals -- it would fundamentally change how a nation views sports as a pathway and for society

How the QS World University Rankings reinforce elitism and caste bias

July 04, 2023 10:18 am

The metric used to measure the quality of institutions relies heavily on the competence and prominence of its researchers. In a country like India, where a majority of academics are upper-caste, the work of researchers from lower castes remains invisible

CUET UG 2022, JEE Main 2022, CLAT, UGC-NET, and more: Top education news last week

June 26, 2022 8:26 pm

CLAT 2022 result dates, exam dates for UGC-NET and CUET UG and more — here's a flashback of all that happened in the last week.

India among countries using innovative teaching techniques, says report

March 14, 2016 12:47 pm

There is a 100-year gap between education levels in developing and developed countries and with business as usual in the education sector, this gap is not projected to change

A new lesson from school

January 27, 2014 12:32 am

Education outcomes will improve if governance systems reward problem-solving by local bureaucracies.

Obama warns Americans: Your jobs could go to people from India,China

October 26, 2013 2:43 pm

President says people from Beijing to Bangalore are 'working to out-educate,out-compete us'

India,foreign varsities: degrees of separation

October 04, 2013 1:54 am

While foreign varsities say a 'robust business model' is key,India is seen as demanding a clean break between business and education.

India lures foreign colleges to cash in working-age boom

October 03, 2013 9:18 am

Many employers say graduates from homegrown universities are often unemployable because job seekers do not have the skills they want.

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