How to shape the future of higher education in India

This summer with Coursera, I am teaching my first massive open online course (MOOC): Introduction to Financial Markets. In the last five weeks since the course has been launched, I have been glued to the discussion board where some 5,000-plus visitors to the course wrote their thoughts, first impressions and reasons for joining the course, and some shared concerns or complaints about the platform and course elements.Currently, the 10-week course is under way, and I periodically check the ratings...

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What India’s New Education Policy May Look Like

The TSR Subramanian Committee does not hold back its punches when it says India’s education system is in disarray. This is the third education policy that a committee has come up with since independence. The previous two were failures. Not because the suggestions enshrined in them were faulty, but because they weren’t implemented.The TSR panel has made some good suggestions targeting the many ills that plague our education system. But it fails to tackle the core injustices and sectarian minefields that surface every now and then. However, to be...

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