Policy Wise

Four top industrialists are joining hands to establish a new Indian School of Business in Mohali. What is most interesting is that it would have a specialist healthcare management center,
The business leaders will invest either in their individual capacities or through their companies. The campus will include four centres—for healthcare management, public policy , manufacturing [...]

Setting the agenda
The need for government regulation of higher education is the subject of an interesting debate between Abi and Ravikiran Rao. Abi calls for changes in the regulatory structure to keep out ”crooks, politicians, and thugs” and facilitate the entry of large philanthropic institutions. Ravikiran’s response is to point to blogs: Without an external regulator, readers are able [...]

A Quick Reality Check
Reality check has criticized the decision of the Indian Institute of Management (A) to raise its tuitions. He calls it an ”outrageous move” and goes as far as to suggest that IIMs should actually decrease their tuition to ”make quality management education accessible to Indians”. This argument has little merit.
First, despite the [...]

In a welcome gesture, India’s premier management institute, IIM Ahmadabad, has hiked its tuitions,
The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) on Saturday decided to effect a sharp hike in fees for its post graduate programme from next year.
The fees for post graduate programme have been increased to Rs [...]

Kanpur Medical college is experimenting with distance education,
The students of GSVM Medical college could soon access all the important lectures of the expert professors of AIIMS and Chandigarh PGI in their own college, thanks to distance learning.With country’s medical colleges facing a shortage of teachers, the Central government is planning to connect them through distance [...]

Arjun Singh imposed quotas. Ramadoss threw out Venugopal. What’s the difference?

After nearly year a struggle, the union health minister, Anbumani Ramadoss has finally managed to dislodge the director of the All India Institute of Medical Science, Dr P Venugopal from his post. There is little Ramadoss hasn’t tried in the last one years: media war, [...]

With the booming demand for MBAs , increasing number of doctors are enrolling themselves in management schools,
Having admired themselves in surgical gowns, medical students now want to don business suits and lend surgical precision to business strategies. Booming corporate sector and demand for domain specialists has got doctors and medicine graduates smitten by management [...]

The Manufacturers of One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) which has been rejected by the Indian government have raised their price again,
The vaunted “$100 laptop” that Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers dreamed up for international schoolchildren is becoming a slightly more distant concept.Leaders of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child that was spun out of MIT [...]

In a very interesting piece, economists Gary Becker and Kevin M Murphy argue that inequality can have a positive effects if it can create an incentive to tackle its root cause: rising payoff of college education.
Why is the earnings gap widening? Because the demand for educated and other skilled persons is growing. That is [...]

While attention is frequently focussed on lack of research in basic sciences, the picture is even more abysmal in case of social sciences. S.l Rao, formerly of the National Council For Applied Economic Research explains why,
Distancing from teaching, spreading a thin layer of good academics over teaching and research institutions, the principle of the [...]