Tag: PUBLIC EDUCATION
Global Capital and the Politics of Ranking Universities
The excerpt from the author's essay "Towards a destruction of critical thinking" reveals why we ought to question the practice of ranking our universities.
Academic Precarity and the Indignity Inflicted upon the Teaching Community at Delhi University
This hollowing sense of vulnerability does not restrict itself within the University – it has serious considerations on the lives and works of academic scholars entwined in the structured order of academia.
No End to JNU Crisis
Delhi Police lathi-charge JNU students on way to Rashtrapati Bhawan.
DU Teachers Protest Job Loss, Demand Absorption
DU Ad-hoc teachers demand absorption into faculty and raise issues surrounding job security.
IIMC Students Protest Unprecedented Fee Hike
IIMC students stage protest against fee hike and plan to launch a hunger strike despite administrative consolations.
Waking Up University Administrations that are Fast Asleep: Reviving a New India
University campuses have seen widespread student protests, but when will the administrators acknowledge the importance of public universities?
Poverty and Self-Respect in the Life of Students in JNU
Self-respect is the emotion animating the entire student resistance against fee hike in JNU.
Mandi House to Parliament: A March for “Affordable” Public Education
Hundreds of students, teachers and activists marched to Parliament to ask for an affordable public education infrastructure.
A Contemporary Understanding of Studentship as “Critical Thinking” in New India
The life of the student is the life of a “mind”. Expecting her not to articulate her anger would mean to not treat her as “mind” at all.
When its more Prestigious to be a ‘Cow’ than a Student of an Indian...
While students of public universities have no hostels to live in, the government plans to build more hostels for cows.
