These are trying times for residential higher education in India, which has only known the largely male hostel population across engineering colleges unified by more or less homogenous career goals. As residential higher education expands beyond the technical and the professional, the challenges of residential education rise to new planes
With Trump promising to throw his weight on the side of the high-performing immigrants, the US will need to make space for outsiders. The jock supported government needs the nerds to run it
The horrifying immediacy of the R G Kar murder should not distract us from the vast and chilling network of medical corruption to which it points. If we cannot ensure safe spaces around our student aspirants and young professionals, what is it exactly that higher education and training bring for people?
At this moment, the two faces of student protest couldn’t be farther apart from each other. No denying that they are vastly different in scale and intensity, to say nothing of the fact that any activity in JNU is always on-camera nationwide in a way no other university in the country is.
It is strange because it is new. Always. Even after 4,743 bodies — the number of people lynched between 1882 and 1968 in the United States, as estimated by the NAACP, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
The idea of energising professional education with elements of liberal education in draft education policy hints at some possibilities of resolution of conflict between the two streams
