Education
Waking up to a nano revolution : CNR Rao
Hindustan Times has this op-ed by C.N.R. Rao, Chairman of Scientific Advisory Board to PM of India. He opens with the statement;
We missed the semiconductor revolution in the early 1950s. We had just gained independence. But with nanoscience and technology, we can certainly be on an equal footing with the rest of the world.
There [...]
IISc campus at Mysore University
This one is a real shocker, to say the least.
Deccan Herald reports, quoting the Mysore University VC,
IISc and University of Mysore will ink a five-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) next month for the setting up of the campus, which, in all probability, will be located near the Academic Staff College in Manasagangotri.
The [...]
Azim Premji on parimary education in India
Times of India has this Leader Article: Education For All by Azim Premji.
It starts with a bit of statistics, which is hurting. “It is disconcerting to know that there are still around 12 million children in the age group of 6-14 who are out of school; or that only one out of three [...]
Scientists Don’t Want to become Desktop Publishers
David K Lynch, who himself was former section editor of Journal of Optical Society of America is angry that publishing houses are more and more pushing scientists to do the work of typesetting. In a letter to the editor of Physics Today titled Scientists Dont Want New Careers in Desktop Publishing (Physics Today 20 March [...]
Second IISc near Kolkata
Deccan Hearld has reported that West Bengal will get the second Indian Institute of Science. Here is the news;
A second centre of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) will come up near Kolkata with an investment of Rs 500 crore, West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee said on Tuesday.
The Centre, on the [...]
Should IISc start undergraduate programs?
Delivering the JN Tata Memorial Lecture at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) the President of India Abdul Kalam urged IISc to start undergraduate program - especially in cross disciplinary programs such as Bioinformatics, Nanotechnology and Aerospace. More on his lecture can be seen in today’s The Hindu. In a sense [...]