“Indian dreams of private universities”: This is the headline of a dispatch by Tim Sullivan for the Associated Press today. The headline is both positive and flattering at once, but the story is more otherwise. The report is all about the mind-boggling extent of private participation in education in India, particularly at the higher levels.
“India’s [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Indian dreams
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Amity University, Higher education, Noida, Private universities on December 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The perfect woman
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, Festive, Perfect couple, Perfect man, Perfect woman, Santa Claus on December 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So, there is festive fervour in the air and everybody is in a holiday mood. Why not spread the cheer, we thought, and decided to post this link:
http://www.flashfunpages.com/couple.swf
Did you enjoy?
Cash for commitment
Posted in Uncategorized on December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is quite akin to the previous item on this blog. While Bangalore University is contemplating a system of grading teachers by their pupils, in the United States, principals, teachers and staffers – including custodians – at three Washington D.C. public schools where students’ test scores rose more than 20 per cent last year [...]
Teacher Trapping
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged students, Grading teachers, educational reform, Bangalore University, Mysore University, opportunity on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
TIME was when job advertisements carried the proviso barring candidates from Bangalore University from applying. Today, news is that it is attempting something that might wipe off that bad reputation: In a bid to improve the quality of education, the university has decided to grade not just the students but the teachers as well. According [...]
English for Comed-K
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bihar, Comed-K, communication skills, dental, engineering, English, medical, UP on December 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Candidates are to be tested for their English comprehension when they write the popular Consortium of Medical, Engineering and Dental Colleges in Karnataka (COMED-K) tests for seeking admission under the management quota in private professional colleges from next year.
This proposal is to discourage students seeking to take up professional courses years after doing their Final [...]
Mahabharatha & red tape
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bureaucracy, Mahabharata, Maneka Gandhi, red tape, spoof on December 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
What the government will do if it receives a proposal
from a filmmaker to make a film on Mahabharata….
Government of India
Ministry of Human Resources Development
Department of Culture
Films Division
No. B1452/234/2003 Dt. 07.12.07
To:
Shri. B.R.Chopra,
Film Director,
Mumbai
Ref: Film story submitted by you, regarding financing of
films by Government of India, Your letter dt. 2.12.90
The undersigned is directed to refer the above [...]
Changing mores!
Posted in Uncategorized on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gun culture in the United States is typical of the nation’s culture. If a robber is armed, so should be his potential victim. That’s the logic which makes purchase of guns in the US as easy as buying a drink in Mysore. A spate of violence, often in the form of some gun-toting man going [...]
Bye, bye, Bharath
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged big bucks, farmers, medicos, Ramadoss, rural posting, teachers on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There is widespread rancour among medical students and it is spreading. Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss has just said in an interview with Press Trust of India that it is pay-back time for the students of government medical colleges and they must serve in villages as they are paying “dismally low” fees.
It is not everyday [...]
Two Diaries
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged contradiction, diary, her, his, Men are from Mars and women from Venus, preoccupations on December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Her Diary
Day night, I thought he was acting
weird. We had made
plans to meet at a
cafe to have some coffee. I was
shopping with my friends
all day long, so I
thought he was upset at the fact that I
was
a bit
late,
but he made no
comment. Conversation wasn’t flowing so
I suggested that
we go somewhere
quiet so we could [...]
Are you in difficulty?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Poverty, Starvation, Sudan on December 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A great many of us have problems and when we talk about them we want our listeners to know about our resilience and how resolutely we are fighting them. Just follow the link http://mail.google.com/mail/?realattid=f_f9l8vo5q1&attid=0.1&disp=vah&view=att&th=1168b524bdceb424
and, after a quick look at the pictures posted there, it is unlikely that you will ever again complain about your problems.
College [...]
