Take a look at the website of this conference, and then at the brochure (which, presumably, was circulated quite a while ago) for the same conference.
See any difference?
For one thing, the brochure says that the conference is organized by…
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November 18th, 2009
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October 21st, 2009
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Is JEE rank a prize?
It’s fair to say that JEE has strayed too far from what most of us would agree should be its real mandate: standardization across the large number of Class XII boards. If it is not a standardizing exam, then what…
September 23rd, 2009
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Half-truths and Harvard comparisons: The Curious Arguments in IIM-A pay hike demands
The memorandum submitted by the IIM-A faculty council irritated the hell out of me. It doesn’t take much effort to conclude — and to show — that the document is filled with extravagant claims, “supported” by bald assertions, shady arguments,…
September 21st, 2009
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Fisking Sancheti
In many cases of plagiarism, we don’t get to hear much from the perpetrator except for a mini-quote here and there. But in Sancheti’s case, TNIE has done us all a favour by publishing Sancheti’s detailed response to the newspaper’s…
September 6th, 2009
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How not to ask for a pay hike: 3. We’ll lose our smart faculty
I have a humble request to the faculty members at IIM-A.
Please don’t say things like this:
“The MHRD wants world-class quality in the IIMs. But quality comes at a cost. Unless the government reconsiders the entry-level pay in premier academic…
September 3rd, 2009
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How not to ask for a pay hike: 2. “All of us – yes, all of us – are outstanding”
In their zeal to hype things up, many journalists tend to portray the IIXs [where X=T,M,Sc,SER, ...] as mega-meritocracies which are one up on Lake Wobegon. IIXs, according to them, are places where everyone is not just above-average, but outstanding!…
August 9th, 2009
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Prathap and Gupta’s paper on the research output from India’s engineering institutions
Seema Singh’s post at Mint Blogs had this eye-catching title: IISc is India’s Top Ranking Engineering/Technology Institute, so naturally I wanted to see what all the excitement was about.
The source of this excitement is the paper (pdf), Ranking of…
August 1st, 2009
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IITs and the reservation policy: A quick look at the JEE-2009 results
Like they did last year, the IITs have released some (but only some!) data on this year’s JEE rank-holders. Specifically, we now have data on the aggregate scores at specified ranks for five separate categories: Common Merit List (CML), Other…
July 6th, 2009
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Budget highlights for higher education
The budget for higher education has gone up by a whopping 36 percent. Take a look at this summary (taken from Expenditure by Ministry/Department, which is a part of Expenditures – Vol. 1; all the budget-related documents are here; all…
June 25th, 2009
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Ranking of Indian universities based on their research performance
Gangan Prathap (National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resources, New Delhi) is the author of this preliminary study (pdf) ranking Indian universities based on papers listed in the Web of Science database. In order to do a fair comparison…
