Arun Nigavekar

50 years on UGC begins a new innings

Half a century after it started funding the massive expansion of post-independence India’s much-envied higher education system the University Grants Commission is gearing to engineer a quality revolution within India’s down-at-heel colleges and universities

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Wipro’s school reforms initiative

Over the past three years Azim Premji Foundation and the Wipro Applying Thought in Schools programme have been playing a pioneering role in raising teaching standards in the school system by convening teachers’ workshops and school education upgradation seminars

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The enduring charm of Kolkata and its environs

For the discerning Kolkata (aka Calcutta) remains a city with a glorious imperial past which retains its old-world flavour and Marxist coffee house culture

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Wellesley College, USA

Founded in memory of one of independent India’s most prominent industrialists, SPSEC has built itself a formidable reputation which extends beyond the country’s leather goods capital