Higher Education

Of late, Canada is becoming more and more popular educational destination for ambitious Indian students.

The primary causes for this is that in Canadian universities are public funded with academic autonomy and most importantly charge an affordable fee.

Canada has about 90 universities and majority of them deliver quality education. As mentioned earlier, they charge an affordable fee, much lesser than the US. Moreover , many educational insitutes provide facilities...

Two Million Minutes , a 187 minute documentary produced by a VC- Robert Crompton portrays interesting and blatantly surprising facts. He was impressed highly impressed by the kind of education at school level during a visit to India in 2005 and decided to make a film comparing Indian and Chinese education systems with that of USA.

Featuring six high school students: two each from India, China and the US - talking about the kind of education systems available in their countries, the...

Merit Vs. Quota


The quota issue, a topic of innumerable debates is the ultimate deciding authority in India, especially, in the education system and it turns my usually sweet temper to “don’t-you-dare” (dare, if you care to get burnt! )

Picture this:

Scenario- 1

A aspires to study in College X
A works hard to realize his dream
Come the exams
A scores x marks
A is rejected by College...