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Author: Sanjay Goel ________________________________________________________ This is in continuation with my previous article (at https://goelsan.wordpress.com/2017/05/21/nirf-2017-a-few-observations-and-conclusions/) in 2017 on this theme. A few academics have already written newspaper and blog articles about NIRF 2018 and raised the doubts about the purpose of this exercise wrt the goal of improving the quality of higher education. The NIRF 2018 is […]
January 2, 2018
Author: Sanjay Goel ____________________________________________________ Research requires and facilitates new ways of thinking about what exists and also what may. Doctoral research is supposed to be a long project aimed at creating new knowledge and insights about a chosen object of inquiry. Even more, it is a transformative journey that is supposed to permanently transform the […]
December 21, 2017
Author: Sanjay Goel with nearly 50 colleagues at the department of CSE & IT, JIIT This article is a work in progress. Last updated: 24 Feb 2018. ____________________________________________________ With the increasing emphasis on the Outcome based Education in higher education, the engineering educators are required to design the Learning Outcomes for their courses. Often they do a very poor job […]
December 15, 2017
Author: Sanjay Goel ___________________________________________ Many students and researchers often have a very narrow view of computer science. This post gives a brief and broad overview of contemporary trends in computing research. As can be seen, the spectrum of research questions and objectives in and around computing is really very wide and there is enough opportunity […]
August 1, 2017
Authored By Sanjay Goel _____________________________________ Admissions in good quality colleges remain a challenge for most Indian students. The subsequent governments at all levels have largely failed in creating a good education infrastructure with the required scale, speed, and scope. While Delhi’s education infrastructure is certainly much better than the rest of the country, with its […]
May 21, 2017
Authored by: Sanjay Goel ————————————————————————— Some reports say that 95% Indian technical graduates are unemployable. Indian IT industry has always been fond of using the phrase “Industry- institute gap”. By this, they imply that the institutes fail to train the fresh graduates with the skills required by the industry. This position, to my mind, is […]
May 21, 2017
According to a January 2017 McKinsey report, 50%+ of the work activities in India are likely to be automated in next few years effecting 23.3 crore workers across different sectors. The degree of automation will vary across occupations. According to this report, the occupations that mainly depend upon the following capabilities will be […]
April 6, 2018
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