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A Curriculum Which Matters

27 Mar

By Nikhil Mahen How many of us today are historians? How many of us use calculus in our every day work? Why do we study dead people, or things which don’t appear to affect our daily lives – like physics? Who cares how far the ball can roll or how much x and y are […]

College Board’s AP Exam Registration Opens

12 Feb

High School students throughout India can now register for College Board’s Advanced Placement® (AP®) Exams in 22 different subjects. AP Exams are scheduled for May 5-16, 2014, and the deadline for registration is March 26, 2014. The AP Exams are securely administered at authorized USIEF centres and schools in 11 cities across India – Ahmedabad, […]

Brookings India Column: Higher Education in India

23 Jan

On Dec 9, 2013, Experts in higher education converged at Brookings India to discuss some of the most pressing challenges confronting the sector. The panel – comprising Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Shashi Tharoor; Principal of Somverville College at the University of Oxford, Alice Prochaska; and the Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global […]

Breaking Up on Facebook: A Conversation

9 Jan

Breaking Up on Facebook A Conversation

Courtesy of Tom McBride at www.themindsetlist.com How Today’s Millennials Fall Out of Love: An Intergenerational Conversation Between Jeanette Geraci and Tom McBride Millennial Jeanette Geraci, has attended Beloit, is a 2011 graduate of Goddard, and is currently a writer living in New York. Baby Boomer Tom McBride is co-author of the annual Beloit College Mindset […]

Malcolm Gladwell on EICD

24 Sep

Malcolm Gladwell on EICD

What is Elite Cognitive Disorder?

Do Schools Kill Creativity? : Sir Ken Robinson

28 Aug

One of the most watched TED Talks of all time.