Groundxero | Report 24 August, 2021 The Visva-Bharati University administration on Monday rusticated three students — Somenath Sow, Falguni Pan of the economics department, and Rupa Chakraborty of Hindustani classical music — for three years, for the alleged acts of ‘gross indiscipline and misconduct’. The decision was taken following a report by an enquiry […]
Groundxero | Report by Sudarshana Chakraborty 24 August, 2021 উপাচার্য এবং তাঁর ‘শিক্ষাবিরোধী নীতি’র সরাসরি প্রতিবাদ করায় গত আট-ন’মাস ধরে সাসপেন্ড করে রাখা তিন শিক্ষার্থীকে এবার তিন বছরের জন্য বহিষ্কার করল বিশ্বভারতী কর্তৃপক্ষ। শিক্ষার্থীদের অভিযোগ, দু’বার তদন্ত কমিটির সামনে হাজির হয়েছিলেন তাঁরা। কিন্তু, কর্তৃপক্ষ ঘনিষ্ঠ তদন্ত কমিটি তাঁদের বিরুদ্ধেই রায় দিয়েছে। অর্থনীতি বিভাগে ‘ঝামেলা’ […]
“Blended Learning” combines online and classroom learning and claims to centre the student as a “learner”. It aims to increase flexibility, self-responsibility and participation and, therefore, enhance learning. Pinjra Tod (a women students’ collective), takes a deep look at the UGC’s document, which reveals how bogus its claims are. Pinjra Tod, after a detailed analysis of the document […]
“Blended Learning” combines online and classroom learning and claims to centre the student as a “learner”. It aims to increase flexibility, self-responsibility and participation and, therefore, enhance learning. Pinjra Tod (a women students’ collective), takes a deep look at the UGC’s document, which reveals how bogus its claims are. Pinjra Tod, after a detailed analysis of the document […]
“Blended Learning” combines online and classroom learning and claims to centre the student as a “learner”. It aims to increase flexibility, self-responsibility and participation and, therefore, enhance learning. Pinjra Tod (a women students’ collective), takes a deep look at the UGC’s document, which reveals how bogus its claims are. Pinjra Tod, after a detailed analysis […]
The summary dismissal of Prof. Sudharson from the Madras School of Social Work has precipitated much anger and disappointment in academic and activist circles. On social media, we have witnessed a large outpouring of support from current and former students. Over 160 academics from across the country have appealed to the Principal of MSSW to […]
The services of twelve ad-hoc assistant professors working for several years in a college affiliated to Delhi University were suddenly discontinued earlier this month putting them in a precarious position amidst the raging pandemic. The report was initially published in Workers Unity. Even as the second wave of Coronavirus epidemic exploded in Delhi, affecting […]
On May 5, MSSW, a premier Social Work College in Chennai, terminated the services of one of its professors. The termination letter merely mentioned that he was ‘not diligent in discharge of his duties’. It did not specify what ‘duties’ he did not discharge. RG Sudharson, the terminated professor, who dares to question the governments policies […]
Last week, the trustees of Ashoka University, a private liberal arts college in Sonipat, extracted a resignation from the political scientist and public intellectual Pratap Bhanu Mehta which, soon after, prompted the resignation of Arvind Subramanian, the economist and former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Subramanian, who resigned in solidarity with Mehta, […]
পার্শ্বশিক্ষকরা পরিষ্কার মতামত দিয়েছেন, যদি ভোটের আগে কোনো ব্যবস্থা না নেওয়া হয় তাহলে তাঁরা সরকার পরিবর্তনের ডাক দেবেন। কিন্তু প্রশ্ন হল যদি সরকার পরিবর্তন হয়েও যায়, তাঁদের অবস্থার আদৌ পরিবর্তন হবে তো? বিকাশ ভবনের কাছে ‘পার্শ্বশিক্ষক ঐক্য মঞ্চ’-এর ধর্নামঞ্চ ঘুরে এসে সৌরব চক্রবর্তীর প্রতিবেদন। কথার খেলাপের রাজনীতি ভারতে নতুন নয়, বরং কথার খেলাপ না […]
We ended Part I by acknowledging the willingness of large publishing corporations to adopt Open Access (OA) publishing protocols, if only in name, in response to widespread demand for it by researchers across the globe. To some, this may seem encouraging. It might even suggest that the publishing industry can be reformed. Indeed, much of academia — […]
On December 21, 2020, three major publishing houses – Elsevier, Wiley, and the American Chemical Society – filed a copyright infringement suit against the websites Sci-Hub and Libgen in the Delhi High Court demanding that Sci-Hub and Libgen be completely blocked in India. The publishers claim that Sci-Hub and Libgen are engaged in violating various […]
২০২১ সালে পশ্চিমবঙ্গে বিধানসভা নির্বাচন। বাংলায় বিজেপি ৭৫ লক্ষ চাকরি দেওয়ার প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়েও তা তুলে নিয়েছে, হয়তো জল মাপা চলছে। কিন্তু প্রায় একইরকম প্রতিশ্রুতি যে আরও আসবে তা বলাই বাহুল্য। আপাতত আগরতলার খোলা আকাশের নীচে ১০৩২৩ জন শিক্ষক চাকরি হারিয়ে অন্ধকারে। ‘সবকা সাথ, সবকা বিকাশ’ আপাতত ভূলুন্ঠিত। সরকার পরিবর্তন হয়ে যাওয়ার পরেও তাদের অবস্থার পরিবর্তন […]
2020 has been a year of pushback on individual education dreams and aspirations. Schools closed and the state refused to provide a safety net to potential dropouts. Young children were pushed into the workforce, converted contractual teachers overnight became street vendors, and many girls were hard-pressed into marriage. The rapid shift to online education, in […]
The entrenchment and mainstreaming of vocational education reinforces the already-existing social hierarchies. It does this by placing further obstacles in the way of working class/lower caste students who want to pursue general education. This in turn contributes to the reproduction of the problem of their underrepresentation in academia, writes the NotA Collective. The new National […]