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Among the parameters under household surveys to connect with
which you have ranked colleges, the out-of-school children and bring
faculty welfare and development them back to school.
parameter is most important. It’s a This is very urgent as children
no-brainer that institutions which have already lost two years of school
invest in faculty welfare and develop- and suffered huge learning loss.
ment deliver best learning outcomes. Shanti Ramanathan
However, during the pandemic many BENGALURU
private colleges cut the pay of faculty
while forcing them to put in extra
hours for online classes. Stiff price
Shabana Rizwi on EMAIL THANKS FOR your well-argued edi-
torial ‘Ukraine invasion not entirely
unprovoked’ (EW April). While most
Case for deregulation of us are moved to tears by the horri-
IN THE Teacher-2-Teacher essay, fying pictures of Russian aggression
APRIL 2022 author Vedant Thadani rightly de- in Ukraine, very few of us have made
scribes the BJP government’s vision the time to analyse the situation
of India becoming a global leader dispassionately. A constituent of the
Overdue recognition in education as a mere pipe dream former Soviet Union, Ukraine has
I WAS delighted to discover that my (EW April). Liberalisation is urgently been defying President Putin’s re-
alma mater — Government Sci- required in Indian higher education. peated requests against it signing up
ence College, Bengaluru — has been A free market will breed excellence as a member of NATO, an anti-Soviet
awarded recognition and ranked with stiff competition compelling coalition of Western countries. Now
India’s #1 government autonomous sub-standard education institutions sadly, it’s paying the price.
arts, science and commerce college to shut down. Ukraine should withdraw its
for two years consecutively in the The stream of medical undergrads NATO membership ambitions and
EW India Higher Education Rank- returning from war-torn Ukraine and accept limits on its armed forces
ings 2022-23 (EW April). Covid-stricken China is clear indica- in the interest of saving the lives of
I recall the college has an impres- tion that India has an inadequate its citizens. But now it’s too late, as
sive campus in the heart of the city, number of medical colleges. Govern- President Putin seems hell-bent on
state-of-the-art labs and highly qual- ment should urgently deregulate winning the war.
ified lecturers, but is totally ignored higher, especially medical, education P. Manjunath
by media despite its distinguished to attract private investment. CHENNAI
alumni including Infosys co-founder Dr. Ruchi Saxena on EMAIL
K. Dinesh, philanthropist Veerendra
Heggade, Justice Venkatachalaiah, Corrigenda
Kannada actor Mukhyamantri Chan- Urgent necessity • DAV College, Abohar has been
dru, former speaker of the Karnataka THE EDUCATION news report inadvertently printed as DAV College
legislative assembly Ramesh Kumar, ‘Political disinterest’ (EW April) of Education, Abohar in the EW
among others. stating that 1,400 budget private India Non-autonomous Colleges
Venkatesh M. and government schools in Karna- Rankings 2022-23 on p.74 (EW
BENGALURU taka recorded zero new enrolments April).
last year is shocking. It is proof that • Rajeev Gandhi Memorial College of
hundreds of children have dropped Engineering & Technology, Kurnool
Curious welfare out of school during the pandemic. has been inadvertently been ranked

CONGRATULATIONS FOR publish- With parents suffering job loss, lakhs in Telangana state (p.88) in the EW
ing the comprehensive EW India of children have been forced to join India Private Engineering Colleges
Higher Education Rankings 2022- the workforce to supplement family Rankings 2022-23. Its correct rank-
23 (EW April). The country’s best incomes. ing is in the state of Andhra Pradesh
higher education institutions need The state government needs to #7.
to be acknowledged and celebrated immediately launch a back-to-school
for the herculean efforts they made campaign to re-enrol dropped- We regret the errors. All corrections
to ensure learning continuity of stu- out children. Teachers should be have been made online on www.
dents during the Covid-19 pandemic. deployed to conduct door-to-door educationworld.in — Editor

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