Govt. should increase testing centers (allow pvt too) but this absurd focus by @scroll_in newspeddlers on "tests per million" is outlandish: shows ignorance about sample sizes (they don't vary much with population size for large N); the focus has to be on sample quality not size. 1. social graph for diseases like this. The disease spreads from certain nodes. Finding one +ve case at the airport before he/she spreads the infection all over (root node for large cluster) is better than finding 100 cases deep inside the country. So not all tests are equal.

VJTI churned out tens of thousands of good engineers over the years. So many of them contributed to the growth of Maharashtra. Over 130 yrs old. Too bad we let all these places go into a decline, even though it still remains popular in Maharashtra.

collegeinfo.io/aicte-engineer… The same holds true for Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT)- known by its old name, the University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT). Churned out thousands of excellent chem engineers. Mukesh Ambani is also from there! Many went to Stanford/MIT.

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Just for kicks - #WordClouds #AliceBrown

wordclouds.info/authors/AliceB… Never realized that #MahatmaGandhi had written so many books! #WordClouds

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The core of the JNU quagmire has not been dissected. The VC is genuinely incompetent as an administrator, however what folk don't realize is, that their post-grad admission process was more like a foot-soldier-recruitment process. The VC disrupted that. Hence the shrieks. - computerized exam (has its own issues) instead of a narrative one which recruited foot-soldiers with matching ideology

- minimum qualifying cutoff (50%)

- removing the travesty of deprivation points (quotas already exist!)

So, many PG/PhD seats vacant: fewer party-workers!

What a Jamia BSc entrance paper looks like. Very basic questions of 11th-12th grade standard: this part is fine.

The cut-offs in such a trivial paper however, are as low as 40-50 on 100. There lies one part of the problem. No gate control for higher-ed. Anyone walks in. Anything less than 70-80% in this trivial a paper indicates that the student isn't really college ready.

Dual degrees were rolled out without sufficient thought & ended up getting a bad name; many places stopped these programs. But for those in a stream of interest, dual-programs open up a whole lot of options. BTechs graduate with just 1 focused yr (3rd yr). Momentum disrupted. ..ctd

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But the dual degree in some places is a nightmare.
IIIT-Hyd folk routinely take 6-7 years. Unrealistic expectations about publishing papers. But that's a private institution, not a JNU with guaranteed taxpayer funding to lifelong-students.

Tagging @Dev_Fadnavis (at least we now have an MH CM to tag on Twitter)

Don't ignore this, sir. Even if it involves being firm with other states. 163 can be more dangerous than 400 - the latter is visible enough to make people take precautions, stay indoors, wear masks. @Dev_Fadnavis pinging again. Daily reminder needed for this issue!

Given the number of hrs the average person in this city has to travel in the BEST buses or in local trains .. what they are breathing in, deserves some attention.

One reason why the Mandal Commission saw the northern zone up in flames (while the south was peaceful): pvt engg colleges in TN, AP, TS even around '90. Even today with 3x+ ppopulation, UP has just 25-30% more engg colleges than TN.
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collegeinfo.io/aicte/aicte-st… Even a small state like TS (3.5 Cr population vs 20.5 Cr population in UP) has almost a third of the engg-colleges which UP has. 99.9% of these colleges teach next to nothing; but at least some of the good students get a platform - some do their MS later.
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#PurpleJazz

messing with color on a minimalistic mobile friendly site is always fun

collegeinfo.io In case you want to check out colorful but completely useless information 🙂
(only makes sense if you're on a laptop or desktop, though)

WordClouds.info

Sometimes there are institutions which are hidden gems & not too many folk know about them. One such college is Sri Venkateswara in Delhi (under TTD). Opened in the 90s, south campus, lots of courses which older campuses don't have: bioinfo, biochem, stats
collegeinfo.io/college.html?i… far more variety than what older places offer

Compare with what older institutions offer (always harder to re-invent as time passes, in general):

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Good post - esp the last line "those left behind"

India already had one major chasm: English vs Non-English
To exacerbate this, we now have a precarious situation, where only those in the Eng side have any sort of access to 21st century technology or sci/tech-education.

https://twitter.com/Mark_Parkinson/status/1193885481819426816

this is where modules like the #ComputationalThinking initiative by @cs_pathshala are so very useful in bridging the gap.

Origami is not just about craft for kids! Origami ideas have gone into making the foldoscope; solar panels on satellites.

Were you explosed to Origami in college or school?

(paper folding) #OrigamiMarvels

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Colleges found mechanical, electrical, electronics engg "teachers" in non-descript places like Bundi, Jhunjhunu - then people wonder why we have so many unemployable engineers :)

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collegeinfo.io/aicte-engineer… Some of the fancy subjects being taught in villages:
Construction Technology & Management
Production and Industrial Engineering
Mining Engineering
Architecture
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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"private-but-aided vs govt"

is not the same as "private vs govt"

-- aided schools have a much lower fee structure than regular pvt-unaided schools

https://twitter.com/news_rookie/status/1189528157654634496

Fee structure of an (aided) CBSE school in KL

No competent or serious academic will get close to those clubs (and if they do they won't manage to have a say over there)

-- the latest joke is visible in the grand "AI Curriculum" launched for 9-12 😎 Will make a lot of software vendors rich. remember a text book from a mediocre author in middle school - parents looked at the qualifications/affiliation of the author and the (crap) quality of the book and said:
"is type ke do kaudi ke author ki kitaab jab use hoti hai school mei" -- only retain info for the exam/marks