Articles with tag: college

A Leaf From the Book of Life

Ayesha Umar Jul 9, 2009 interacts: 12

Now when I look back I feel as if I was in awe of her like she was a deity descended form the heavens above who could only be seen and revered and observed but not spoken to.

Why Yes: Homeless Hoes!!!

Padash May 10, 2009 interacts: 256

I had initially wanted to write a piece on my experiences as a stripper, I decided to take a few steps back and write about the equally sordid odd jobs I did before my debut as Rosa.

How Greed Ruins Academia

Pervez Hoodbhoy Feb 11, 2009 interacts: 75

Naked greed is now destroying the moral fibre of academia. Professors across the country are clamoring to lift even minimal requirements that could assure quality education.

Reckoning Time for HEC

Pervez Hoodbhoy Oct 30, 2008 interacts: 109

The new HEC head, yet to be appointed, has a difficult task ahead. One hopes that he or she will have the dynamism and eloquence of Dr Atta-ur-Rahman, but not the flaws.

Ragging: A Sickness in our Educational System and Society

Rohit Chopra Oct 8, 2007 interacts: 2

Several incidents of ragging have been reported at Indian colleges, some involving acts of brutal violence perpetrated on helpless first year students by groups of senior students.

Affordable UK Degrees

Ed Halifax Jul 25, 2007 interacts: 14

International students who want to study for degrees that are recognized and accepted worldwide could find private colleges’ fees well within their budgets.

Wise Chancellors

naeem sadiq Nov 27, 2004 interacts: 12

Since the rapid ‘generalization’ of our society, the function of ‘vice’ Chancellors too has been “generalised’. It is now possible to have a good ‘vice’ chancellor who was once good at say commanding a plat

Dubious Universities

Q Isa Daudpota Nov 4, 2004 interacts: 6

For an unaccredited institution, the 14-year old American World University (AWU) does remarkably well with over 7,000 students globally. No one would guess that the hub of this hugely profitable enterprise is a posh apartment building in the Los Angeles

Ten Myths about Ragging

Shivam Vij Jul 2, 2004 interacts: 37

As another academic session comes near, one wonders why freshers have to take off their clothes to ‘know’ their seniors

The Summer of 2001…

Aman Malik Jun 24, 2004 interacts: 8

“If any of you cannot bear being ragged,” he said, “you might go to Hindu College (across the road from Stephen’s); if you are unable to face that even, then my boys you may take admission in Miranda House (the only college that al

What a Day !

Radhika Sapra Jun 8, 2000 interacts: 22

I lay my first steps into the ’educated world’...