Today my cousin who is a final year engineering student in a well reputed college in central Kerala came upto me and asked whether I had an IEEE membership. Instantly I understood her need cos i have been hearing the same question from many, she needed a project for her final semester and her teachers would allow only IEEE projects. Now whats with this IEEE criteria ? There are many engineering colleges in Kerala who set this...

Recently we have been hearing a lot about education being seen as a business, and so called student organisations protesting, court cases being fought, outrage against self financing colleges, every issue that happens in a self financing college blown out of proportion, property destruction etc etc. Is education business good ? The motivation to write this post is a comment by a reader in one of my previous posts about the suicide...

A student of MACFAST college committed suicide. The suicide note said, her college management asked her to buy a new laptop, cos her old laptop got stolen. Is that reason enough to end ones life ? I dont know maybe it is. SFI attacked the college. Typical response from an irresponsible student organisation. College authorities taken to police station for questioning. Law takes its route. Newspaper publish the news as if they got...

The recent hype in the education market is about finishing schools. Every Trust, every agency, every organization which is into education of some sort has or is planning to start a finishing school. The latest to join this is the IHRD. What are finishing schools ? A finishing school (in our context) is supposed to make a student ready for the industry. A student joins a finishing schools after his graduation, learns (or is supposed...