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News of Interest in the Education Domain

The Promise of Bio-Tech remains Unfulfilled

LiveMint has recently published an article by Gouri Agtey Athale titled Pune newsletter | The promise of biotech remains unfulfilled, which argues that although Bio-Technology was touted as the next big thing in India, and was expected to produce another … Continue reading

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The Crisis in Higher Education

Shrikant points us to an article by Nicolas Carr which wonders whether massively online open courses (MOOCs) are a fad or a disruption in education Continue reading

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Exploriments: Pune’s Persistent Partners with IL&FS for Educational Mobile Apps

Pune-based outsourced software product development services company Persistent Systems on Tuesday announced that they have partnered with IL&FS Education and Technology Services Ltd. to develop a series of mobile based learning applications on IL&FS Education’s, Exploriments learning platform.

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Lant Pritchett: India’s Battle to Educate the Country

(Cross posted from “Shrikant’s Blog”) I bumped into Lant Pritchett’s interaction with Indian Express this week. Lant is the Faculty co-chair of the Master’s in Public Administration / International Development Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He discusses … Continue reading

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