Education
Careers 360
NEW IDEAS, OLD PROBLEMS
What happened to the projects that won prizes in the Smart India Hackathon?
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September 2020
Careers 360
TOWARDS A BIO-DEGRADABLE PLASTIC
A team of three students at NIT Raipur created a material out of starches that could potentially be a substitute for plastic.
4 min |
September 2020
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STAYING RELEVANT BY UPSKILLING ONLINE
Why upskilling is not a matter of choice anymore but of survival.
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September 2020
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HOW THEY SHOT UP
Despite initial struggle, the eight second-generation IITs set up in 2008 have matured in under a decade. Careers360 looks at how they did it.
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September 2020
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BEING AN EXCEPTIONAL TEACHER
Most engineering programmes hope to achieve what Jayashri Ravishankar does. Ravishankar, who teaches at Australia’s University of New South Wales, has found a way to keep a very large and diverse student body engaged by developing “research-led and professionally relevant” strategies that have now been adopted elsewhere. An electrical engineer with a special interest in renewable energy and micro-grids, Ravishankar earlier taught at Anna University, Tamil Nadu for a decade. In 2019, she received a citation from the Australian Awards for University Teaching for ‘Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning’. It acknowledges her as one of “Australia’s most exceptional university teachers”. She spoke to Careers360 about how engineering must be taught so that students are engaged and come out job-ready.
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September 2020
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EXPLAINER: THE FIGHT OVER OBC RESERVATION
A court battle is on over OBC reservation in the AIQ seats in state medical colleges. What is the controversy about?
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September 2020
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BACK INTO THE FOLD
How a government programme is helping women in science and tech who have faced a career break get back on track.
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September 2020
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AIR, WATER, SOIL: ENGINEERING COLLEGES AND THE ENVIRONMENT
State engineering colleges are working to address environmental challenges in their backyards.
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September 2020
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Online Admissions: Easy For All?
Online admissions have relieved the universities of a huge burden. But the process is less convenient for poor and rural students.
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March 2020
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UNIVERSITIES OF THEIR OWN
India’s 16 women’s universities are training women to thrive, not just in professions typically associated with women, but also in science and tech.
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March 2020
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PROTESTS, POLICE, PUNISHMENT
Students have been at the forefront of protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act 2019. They have also been at the receiving end of the state’s efforts to push back.
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March 2020
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OUTSIDE LABORATORIES
Some of the most elite research institutions in the country are engaged in explaining what they do to school children and the public.
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March 2020
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MEGA UNIVERSITIES
The five largest universities in India have 4,209 affiliated colleges and centres among them.
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March 2020
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IMPERMANENT STAFF
What does having thousands of ad hoc appointments mean for a public university, its teachers and students?
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March 2020
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GOING DIGITAL
The Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Kerala is becoming a ‘digital university’. The digital world will dictate what it teaches and how.
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March 2020
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BEYOND TECH
The IITs have begun the transformation from premier science and tech schools to multidisciplinary institutions
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March 2020
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BEING NON-BINARY AT WORK
A new consultancy is helping members of the LGBTQI+ community find work in friendly firms. But many participants of a job fair in February had already had bruising experiences at the workplace.
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March 2020
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COLLEGES @HOME
Seven universities have been permitted to launch full-fledged degr programmes online. What are their plans?
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March 2020
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Democracy In Action
Run by activists who fought for the right to information, Loktantrashala in Bhim, Rajasthan, shows students how laws work on the ground.
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January 2020
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How The Mechanism For Training Lawyers Is Changing
As the legal discourse responds to growth and transformations in other fields – most obviously, in technology – here’s a look at how the mechanism for training lawyers is also changing.
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January 2020
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How Important Is English?
The short answer: very. Law is also taught in the vernacular medium, but there are challenges.
6 min |
January 2020
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THE CLEAN-UP PLAN BY BCI
Suspecting that a large number of advocates hold fake degrees, the legal education regulator, Bar Council of India, has launched a country-wide verification process. The BCI has also imposed a three-year ban on new colleges during which it will take stock. It will plan the development of new colleges and shut down “nonperforming” ones. Speaking to Careers360, Satish Abarao Deshmukh, vice-chairman, BCI, said that 30 colleges have been served show-cause notices for flouting faculty-recruitment norms and may be facing closure.
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January 2020
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LEGAL AID CLINICS: IN NEED OF AID
An important way of introducing students to the practical application of laws, why are legal aid clinics of state law colleges faltering?
6 min |
January 2020
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HOW MURAKHALI GOT A LAWYER
IDIA has supported youths from India’s most marginalised communities through law school and in doing so, placed legal assistance within their reach. That’s how a West Bengal village got its only lawyer.
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January 2020
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BATTLE OVER FEES
Two candidates and a premier fashion design institute have been locked in a court battle over fee refund for more than a decade.
5 min |
January 2020
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ALLIES IN A CRISIS
Around 175 students from law schools across the country joined Parichay, a platform set up by five NLUs to assist Assam lawyers representing those left out of the NRC.
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January 2020
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CYBER LAW: ‘NEW LEGISLATIONS WILL INCREASE DEMAND FOR CYBER LAWYERS
New laws on data protection, compulsory disclosure of security breaches and others will also mean new career avenues for cyber lawyers.
5 min |
January 2020
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‘MY PARENTS PAID FOR HOTELS, FOOD AND TRAVEL'
Why a 23-year-old woman left her “very interesting” first job with a non-profit? Her team was bullied by its leader and she was reimbursed months later for thousands spent on work trips.
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January 2020
360
A NEET Scam
Experts suggest better use of technology and further centralisation of the exam’s management. Some want a reset to the old system of state exams.
6 min |
November 2019
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From Jhola To Briefcase?
The introduction of engineering and management to JNU has been controversial. Their launch was hasty, interest in engineering is waning, and they can alter the campus culture shaped by students and staff over decades.
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