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In continuation to Let's not confuse college with knowledge : See the  comments on that post. Is the labour market return to highe...

The cost-benefit analysis of a college education in the US I was fascinated by  this interview in the New York Times with Laszlo Block ...

In 1887, roughly 14 million children were born in India, and we got one Ramanujan. It seems reasonable to think that there were 9 others wh...

The old triusm `never let school interfere with your education' is particularly relevant in India, where most schools, colleges and uni...

India's education crisis is now high on our consciousness. In response to the recent developments, CNBC Awaaz did a four-hour s...

The JEE used to serve India well Many years ago, high school education in India worked in a twin track system: There were those w...

With the first release of OECD PISA results for India, and with the release of one more year of Pratham data, there has been an upsurge in ...

by Ajay Shah. On VoxEU, there is a fascinating article titled China and India: Those two big outliers by Jesus Felipe, Utsav Kumar ...

Just heard that at the business school at the University of Essex in the UK, Indian applicants for the M.B.A. program are turned away if the...

In recent years, an empirical literature has begun to prise apart the management process of universities, seeking to identify the featur...

High end skills in India are in short supply in most areas, whether we think about university professors or financial regulators. One elemen...

With the removal of Arjun Singh from the Ministry of HRD, there is a prospect of genuine change in Indian higher education. The importan...

From 1947 onwards, the Indian government pushed one strategy for higher education: that of universities run mostly like government departmen...

India's Colleges Battle a Thicket of Red Tape by Geeta Anand in Wall Street Journal .

Andre Beteille has an article in The Telegraph yesterday on the `lazy mental habits' that we're using in thinking about private vs...

Pratap Bhanu Mehta has a great article in Indian Express on what is wrong with the bureaucratic processes that are presently underway in i...

If you're a young person in India, and desire to genuinely know finance, and the NSE NCFM F&O exam was too easy, you should do the G...

China had unusually bad initial conditions with the decimation of universities and intellectual life under communism and particularly the cu...

Another ranking of universities worldwide, another dismal showing from India's universities. Let's set our sights low, so we're...

The Financial Times ranking of global MBA programs places ISB at #20 in the world. I believe this is the first time an Indian MBA program...