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Shastri News - January 2010

New Publications

Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future
by: Pawan Agarwal
Sage Publications © 2009

From the website:
INDIA has seen a consistently high rate of economic growth in the recent years. It has now become a major player in the global knowledge economy. Skill-based activities have made significant contribution to this growth. Such activities depend on the large pool of qualified manpower that is fed by its large higher education system. It is now widely accepted that higher education has been critical to India’s emergence in the global knowledge economy. Yet, it is believed that a crisis is plaguing the Indian higher education system. While, the National Knowledge Commission (NKC) set up by the Prime Minister calls it a ‘quiet crisis’, the Human Resource Minister calls higher education ‘a sick child’. Industries routinely point towards huge skill shortages and are of the opinion that growth momentum may not be sustained unless the problem of skill shortages is addressed.

Kabitia Chakraborty, Canadian Studies Research Fellow, has recently published an article based on her PhD research:

Chakraborty, Kabita. 2009. The good Muslim girl: conducting qualitative participatory research to understand the lives of young Muslim women in the bustees of Kolkata , Children’s Geographies 7, 4 : 421-434

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