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India

Asian Universities are Lagging
(according to lagging indicators)

November 7, 2009

I’ve recently written several posts related to research and education in China and India, and the comments led me to examine how their best universities are ranked among the universities of the world. The answer is “Low”, but the measuring rod looks crooked.
The “Academic Ranking of World Universities” (ARWU) is widely regarded as the best [...]

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Indian education, top to bottom

November 5, 2009

In response to my last post, which mentioned some high points in Indian education, a comment by fiaorsh offers some perspective on the extensive low points.
Since my reply ended up looking more like a post, I’m making it one:

@ fiaorsh — You make some important points regarding education in India, and I’d like to [...]

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E-Drexler in India —
where do all the visitors come from?

November 2, 2009

Rosa recently returned from Ashoka meetings in Chennai and Hyderabad, reminding me of some information I’d collected about Indian visits to my website, E-drexler.com. India is enormously diverse (e.g., many cultures, 18 officially recognized regional languages, and very different state governments), and I became curious about where inside India this traffic was coming from. Here’s [...]

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