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...woefully inconsistent higher education, which includes a handful of world-class government-run management and technology schools as well as hundreds of much more mediocre institutions. A transfusion of government spending, coupled with foreign investment--financial and academic--will, the government hopes, boost the number of Indians who attend university from 7% to closer to 15% and provide well-trained workers for India's booming economy, which, perversely in a country of 1.1 billion people, is struggling with a growing skills shortage...
Operating abroad poses challenges for the outsiders too. Indian universities set aside almost half of all admissions slots for students from "listed tribes," or lower castes. The quota system has helped millions who would otherwise not be able to attend university, but it also prevents schools from controlling the academic quality of their student body. A proposed bill would exempt foreign universities from this form of affirmative action, but their administrators worry that future governments might rescind the exemption...
Because Dershowitz is not a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, he will not be allowed to attend next week’s meeting unless invited. But he challenged Matory to debate the issue with him “on a level playing field...
...just the financial reality, and part of it’s the status thing. People with a professional degree don’t want to go into jobs that are perceived as having a low impact, or being beneath their education.” Mahan himself eventually plans to attend graduate school, but is proceeding with caution...
...have always plagued Clinton, the notion that she is perpetually calculating, triangulating and cold, without core convictions. On the other hand, in several dozen interviews over a weekend in Iowa, I simply couldn't find anyone who had actually seen the debate - not even among the political junkies who attend her meetings. Clinton's public demeanor at these rallies suggested that she had taken the punch and moved on, even if her campaign briefly made the mistake of playing the gender-victim card in a clunky webcast called The Politics of Pile-On, which showed all the boys repeatedly attacking...