Last week, Money, a US-based personal finance magazine, published its take on college rankings, traditionally the stronghold of US News & World Report. Money’s rankings were notable in that they listed Babson College and Webb Institute, 2 relatively lesser-known institutes ahead of the Ivies, setting off predictably fierce debates about the merits and demerits of the rankings.
Enough has been written about Money’s methodology, and its rights …
What I found interesting in the world of higher education last week, with some added thoughts and views. I work for the Times Group. All views are personal.
College of Asia?
A plea for a ASEAN University, modeled on the European University Institute, Florence. Such universities are called International or Supranational Universities
A similar university, called South Asian University was set up recently in New Delhi by South …
What I found interesting in the world of higher education last week, with some added thoughts and views. I work for the Times of India Group, where I am presently kickstarting our university venture. All views are personal.
The decline of ‘convent-educated’
Until the late ‘90s / early ‘00s, missionary-run or convent schools were typically the most coveted schools for admissions. Mumbai had its Cathedral, Delhi its St Columba’s…
What I found interesting in the world of higher education last week, with some added thoughts and views. I work for the Times of India Group, where I am presently kickstarting our university venture. All views are personal.
The Great Unmooring
In 1981, economist Sherwin Rosen published a paper analyzing why there are some performers (sports stars, musicians etc) who end up earning outsize rewards. The gap in earnings, …
What I found interesting in the world of higher education last week, with some added thoughts and views. I work for the Times of India Group, where I am presently kickstarting our university venture. All views are personal.
News
For those puzzled by the Delhi University – University Grants Commission standoff, resulting in scrapping of the FYUP (Four-Year Undergraduate Programme), here is a quick take into what really happened.
Delhi …
Before Lytro was a photography company, it was nearly a consulting firm. Don’t get me wrong, it is not that Ren Ng wanted to set up a McKinsey clone and then decided to set up a photography co instead. Rather Lytro was amongst the shortlist of 30 names suggested when Andersen Consulting was changing its name. Of course, Lytro was rejected in favour of Accenture. Just as well.
I …
What I found interesting in the world of higher ed last month, with some added thoughts and views. I work for the Times of India Group, where I am presently kickstarting our university venture. All views are personal.
News
The Economist devotes its cover story (the Asian edition has Abe on the cover though) to chronicling the shifting landscape of higher ed. See edit as well as their lead story…
This is my first non-media article on this blog. This one is on fitness, a big interest area of mine. The article shares my thoughts on the evolution in fitness thinking, and the growth of what I call the ‘movement movement’.
I chose to publish it in medium. Here is the link to the article.
Let me know what you think of it.…
This post consists of two parts. The first is a follow up to my previous blog post on the Guardian. And the second deals with an idea as to how news sites can monetize traffic that comes for free through social / search sites.
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Last week Ken Auletta of the New Yorker and David Carr of the NYT got together on PBS News Hour to discuss the Guardian. This …
In my previous blog post on freesheets, I had laid out the latest revenue and profit (loss) figures for UK newspapers. Readers who reviewed the same in detail may have noted that the Guardian was one of the loss-making papers (Revenue of £196m and losses of £31m for FY13). Now the Guardian is likely the 2nd most read newspaper worldwide (behind the Daily Mail), having recently overtaken the …
