| Newsmaker: M Thenmozhi | 25-SEP-09 |
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| The president of the IIT faculty association says she is worried about the future of a profession that is losing bright people every year. |
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| A K Bhattacharya: The lost world | 23-SEP-09 |
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| Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal has established that one does not have to wait for long before initiating change within the government system. What’s more, he has shown that it is possible to meet a pre-determined target date for initiating that change. |
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| New drug regulator, manpower gap in focus | 02-JUL-09 |
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| Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad unveiled his agenda of reform for the sector today, announcing a special salary package for doctors and paramedics in selected village primary health centres. He also promised a central authority to regulate drugs , to amend the Transplantation of Human Organs Act, 1994, and to set up a National Council for Human Resources in Health, to look at manpower needs. |
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| In Conversation: Kapil Sibal, HRD Minister | 30-JUN-09 |
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| A greater number of education-providers, the education minister insists, is the solution to the sector's problems, and that's precisely what he's aiming to fix. |
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| Govt floats interest subsidy scheme on educational loans | 26-JUN-09 |
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| Students from disadvantaged economic backgrounds will no longer face financial problems in pursuit of higher education as the government is set to launch an interest subsidy scheme on educational loans taken by them. |
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| New-look education | 26-JUN-09 |
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| Journalists were given a first-hand feel of what the new standards of education would be under Human Resources Minister Kapil Sibal. When journalists furiously took notes while Sibal spoke, he asked them not to write since ‘aapko sab kuch likha likhaya mil jayega’ (you’ll get everything in writing). While talking of how the government would give an interest rate subsidy on education loans, Sibal wisecracked saying it was because the government was ‘interested’ in them. As for why the minister of state was not at his side at his press conference, Sibal said he didn’t need his colleagues to help him face the press. |
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| Sunil Jain: The 3Rs and recession | 25-JUN-09 |
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| It’s obvious that a well-educated work-force will contribute more towards economic growth, but just how much does reading, ‘riting and ‘rithmetic matter? The latest research from the McKinsey Quarterly looks at this in many ways. It looks at the increasing gap between the US and other countries — in the 1960s, the US led the world on various education parameters, today it’s 25th of 30 industrialised nations in maths. |
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| Don't rag me | 23-JUN-09 |
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| While inaugurating an anti-ragging helpline, Human Resources Development Minister Kapil Sibal confessed to having been ragged while he was in college and to having done his share of ragging as well. What took journalists aback, however, was his calling the helpline to say he was surrounded by the press and feared being ragged by them. |
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| Govindraj Ethiraj: The ministers that really matter | 26-MAY-09 |
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| Walking through the swank new Terminal 1D catching a domestic flight out of Delhi was a pleasant surprise two weeks ago. For day one of transition for my airline, the predictable chaos was missing, both outside and inside, except for a slight mix-up in lines at check-in. |
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