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Inequality and education Raghuram Rajan suggests that inequality is the root cause of the financial crisis in America and the lack of educational opportunities is one of the reasons for the inequality. Since the 1970s, wages for workers at the 90th percentile of... Admission to medical college without having done science Mount Sinai Medical School tests the waters. For generations of pre-med students, three things have been as certain as death and taxes: organic chemistry, physics and the Medical College Admission Test, known by its dread-inducing acronym, the MCAT. So it... The state of Indian Philanthropy Arpan Sheth of Bain & Co. provided an overview of philanthropy in India at a talk delivered to the Indian Philanthropy Forum in March 2010. I have been thinking about the extent of philanthropy in higher education in India and... Business magnates set up private universities in India - an incipient trend globalpost has a piece by Shailaja Neelakantan on India's Super Rich Educators In recent years, much of the growth in private higher education has been among academically mediocre engineering colleges and other institutions that critics say focus more on making... Shiv Nadar University coming up near Delhi In an interview with CNBC-TV18 in April 2010, Shiv Nadar talked about the proposed Shiv Nadar University (SNU), which is coming up near Greater NOIDA - I've no idea of the location - would be good to have someone pinpoint... Mittals speak about the proposed Bharti University in an interview with CNBC (hat tip Indiacsr.in) Q: So could we possibly see a Bharti University being setup anytime soon? And now you can also bring in foreign partners and collaborate with them. Mittal: For us education will never... Reality TV show on engineering education Thinking further about the idea of a reality TV show for school teachers in India, I stumbled on Design Kids, a very interesting reality TV show on PBS in the United States, to promote engineering concepts to school children in... School Choice National Conference 2009 - Session 1 Summary I attended the School Choice National Conference 2009 in Delhi on December 16th. Here is a summary based on my notes. Private Schools and the Poor: Implementing the 25% in Section 12 of RTE (Right to Education Act 2009) was... The case for working with your hands is the subject of a book by Matthew Crawford titled Shop Class to Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work. In an article he wrote in the New York Times, Crawford, a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University... Choosing the right school board and school for your child Citizen Matters lists the criteria to consider in selecting a school in Bangalore. Their list includes the following: Commute distance and time Academic standards School fees Students-to-teacher ratio Good teachers School management Corporal punishment Parent participation When to admit In...