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Measuring Access, Quality and Relevance in Higher Education
Get PDFGross enrolment ratio is a widely accepted indicator to measure the level of participation in education. It is proposed that the eligible enrolment ratio could be a better indicator instead. A study of five-year data of 10 different countries highlights its significance. In addition, it is also critical to reimagine higher education as beyond general university degrees, and develop a complementary vertical of equal status of skill and vocational education and enhance employment opportunities
It's Okay: To Reach Out For Help
Get PDFCorona Virus has brought the whole world to a standstill. Months of lockdown has taken a toll on both economic and psychological well-being of people. Even if we are able to overcome the economic losses with our efforts over a period of time, psychological effects if not treated on time, can prove to be devastating.
It’s Okay to Reach Out for Help deals with several self care measures that can be employed to help oneself in dealing with this global Pandemic, making use of India's own indigenous and time-tested methods with ample illustrations from our own backyard. The author promises, things will get better soon. We need to hold out for a little longer. Some reading, with some help may make us see light in a tunnel that seems all dark
Remote Sensing for National Development: The Legacy of Dr. Vikram Sarabhai
No full textDr. Vikram Sarabhai was a great visionary, and we are celebrating his Centenary birth anniversary, this year. It was amazing to see, 50 years back, he had planned meticulously various possible remote sensing applications that materialised in the fields of weather and oceans, coastal zone management, geoscience, hydrology, forestry, land use and agriculture and contributed significantly towards national development. Not only that, he had thought about the kinds of sensors, processing and communicating technologies that would be required. He had stressed need for the domain expertise in different disciplines and collaboration with various stakeholders for developing various remote sensing-based products and services and their utilisation. The concept of the National Natural Resources Management System had born out this vision. Such approach has really paid rich dividends. Today, because of such approach, India is in forefront of operational utilisation of remote sensing data and provides weather services for farmers, potential fishery zone advisories to fishermen, accurate and reliable forecast on cyclones and droughts, groundwater targeting for drinking water, condition and status of forest and glaciers, annual forecast of production of major food grains, to name a few. The time is now appropriate to transform this world-class technology into a national system of remote sensing in collaboration with industries to provide operational services to not only users in India, but also all developing countries. Such approach will pave way in translating technology development into innovation for the benefit of all stakeholders. These benefits will help in improving particularly social and economic conditions of developing societies, and is the best way to pay tribute to him. In this article, the vision of Dr. Sarabhai vis-à-vis the status of utilisation of remote sensing in the country has been discussed
National Educational Policy 2020 and reinventing the Possibilities in Vocational Skill Education
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A Technical Assessment of the Use of Current Geospatial Technologies to derive Marine Fishery Advisories in India and the Way Forward
No full textTransition from Village to Town: A Study of Two Settlements in Punjab
No full textRecent trends and studies on South-Asian urbanisation suggests that the process of urbanisation is not only confined to the conceptual and territorial boundaries of the ‘city’ but also extends into rural areas, urban villages and small towns. They illustrate the critical role of the rural and agrarian changes in the contemporary process of urbanisation occurring in geographies beyond the ‘city’. The prevalent studies on urbanisation, due to their metro and city-centric approaches have typically assumed the rural to be ‘peripheral’, that is gradually subsumed by the planetary process of urbanisation and globalisation. Using the case study of two settlements Patran and Dhur located in the Patiala district of Punjab, this thesis illustrates the diverse ways in which the rural and its agrarian dynamics affects the differential transition of the two settlements. The study focusses on agrarian changes driven by local communities and the state-led development strategy of reforming agriculture through land, technology and market. This, in turn, showcases the diverse ways in which agrarian regimes of land, caste and capital facilitate the making and unmaking of a non-metro small urban center and the persistence of agriculture and the rural. Thus, the two case studies show that agrarian transition and urbanisation in India are mutually interlinked processes that coproduce each other
Adivasi Rights and Wildlife Conservation: Contesting Citizenship in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve
No full textThis thesis explores the ways in which the Adivasis of Nagarahole Tiger Reserve in Karnataka make claims to citizenship and the contestations around them. Based on sixteen months of fieldwork, I foreground the everyday reality of Adivasi lives and their interactions with the state (specifically, the Forest Department) to deconstruct the categories of Adivasi and of citizenship, highlighting their heterogeneity which stems from diverse histories and social circumstances. Building on the literature on Adivasi identity and politics, I explore the struggles of communities living in and around Nagarahole and the roles of various actors — government agencies, voluntary organisations, and local communities — in shaping Adivasi claims to land and citizenship in Nagarahole. The thesis documents their changing relationship with the state and forest from the colonial period to the present, highlighting changes in identity and assertions in relation to changes in forest governance — from forest labourers and conditional rights holders under colonial rule to undesirable forest dwellers to be evicted under the Wildlife Protection Act to legitimate rights holders under the Forest Rights Act (FRA). The thesis analyses the diverse responses of the Adivasis of Nagarahole to the resettlement programme and FRA: while some assert their rights by stressing their historical roots in, and sense of belonging to, the forest, others reject their representation as forest dwellers and instead deploy the language of development to demand state support and facilities to forge a better life outside the forest. These powerful and countervailing discourses — of Adivasi autonomy versus development as integration with the ‘mainstream’ — echo debates from the early post-Independence period about the relation of ‘tribal’ groups to the Indian nation. The diverse responses of Adivasis to the FRA are also shaped by international conservation and indigenous rights movements. The thesis shows how different individuals and groups in Nagarahole appropriate and articulate different narratives in pursuit of their claims, suggesting that citizenship for Adivasis is a negotiated category, dialectically produced in response to forest governance regimes. The thesis also suggests that the forest rights policy, which is framed as decentralised and inclusive, continues to work with a priori notions and assumptions made about or on behalf of the people, rather than with or by them
The Social Context of Technological Experiences: Three Studies from India
No full textThis book demonstrates how technology and society shape one another and that there are intrinsic connections between technological experiences and social relationships. It employs an array of theoretical concepts and methodological tools to examine the technology–society nexus among three urban groups in India (traditional caste-based handloom weavers, subaltern Dalit communities, and informal female labour).
It provides evidence of how innovations such as industrial technologies, communication technologies, and workplace technologies are not only about strides in science and engineering but also about politics and sociology on the ground. The book contributes to the growing research in innovation studies and technology policy that establishes how technological processes and outcomes are contingent on complex sociological variables and contexts. The author offers an inclusive, holistic, and interdisciplinary approach to understanding the field of innovation and technological change and development by involving various methodologies (network analysis, archival work, oral histories, focus group discussions, interviews).
The book will serve as reference for researchers and scholars in social sciences, especially those interested in development studies, science and technology policy and innovation studies, information and communication technology (ICT) policy, public policy, management, social work and research methods, economics, sociology, social exclusion and subaltern studies, women’s studies, and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to nongovernmental organisations, activists, and policymakers
Understanding Space, Time and Causality: Modern Physics and Ancient Indian Traditions
No full textThis book examines issues related to the concepts of space, time and causality in the context of modern physics and ancient Indian traditions. It looks at the similarity and convergence of these concepts of modern physics with those discussed in ancient Indian wisdom. The volume brings the methodologies of empiricism and introspection together to highlight the synergy between these two strands. It discusses wide-ranging themes including the quantum vacuum as ultimate reality, quantum entanglement and metaphysics of relations, identity and individuality, and dark energy and anti-matter as discussed in physics and in Indian philosophical schools like Vedanta, Yoga, Buddhist, Kashmiri Shaivism and Jaina Philosophy.
First of its kind, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researches of philosophy, Indian philosophy, philosophy of science, theoretical physics and social science