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Sep 11, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Nivedhika Krishnan

    Cybersecurity courses: Despite great promise, first job remains elusive (opens the original)

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    When Chaitanya, a third-year Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) student in Pune, began studying cybersecurity, he thought an advanced certification would help him enter the industry. He became interested in penetration testing after Class 12 and cleared the Offensive Security Certified Professional (OSCP) examination in his second year. OSCP is a hands-on certification focused on finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in computer systems. (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s weekly education ne

  2. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Nivedhika Krishnan

    MCQ-Based Humanities Entrance Exams: Are They Testing the Right Skills? (opens the original)

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    Who was the ruler who called himself “devaputra”, or “son of god”? This is a question that can make a student preparing for a Humanities entrance examination stop and search their memory. This question appeared in the Common University Entrance Test-UG (CUET-UG) History paper in 2025. The answer is a Kushana ruler. (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s weekly education newsletter.) A 2025 CUET-PG English paper asks candidates to match Bartleby, Project MUSE, WorldCat and Shodhganga with the type of r

  3. Article · Aug 19, 2026 · Nivedhika Krishnan

    PM Modi promised free coaching. Tamil Nadu has tried it with some success (opens the original)

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    Adhikesavan N, now a first-year medical student at Madras Medical College, spent his high school years preparing for state board exams in a government school in Kallakurichi. Like thousands of rural students across Tamil Nadu, he excelled at memorising textbook answers to clear Class 12 state board exams, but felt entirely lost when facing the conceptual application required by national competitive entrance tests like NEET. “Facing NEET after a brief ten-day orientation course offered by my scho

  4. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Nivedhika Krishnan

    Apprenticeship degrees promise jobs, but students face low-quality work and weak hiring (opens the original)

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    Under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) launched the Apprenticeship-Embedded Degree Programme (AEDP). Designed to combine academic coursework with mandatory, credit-bearing on-the-job training (OJT), the initiative allows up to 50% of an undergraduate degree to be completed within industry settings through subsidized schemes such as the National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) and Natio

  5. Article · Aug 7, 2026 · Nivedhika Krishnan

    Econophysics: Why Physicists are rewriting the rules of finance (opens the original)

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    When the global financial system buckled during the 2008 housing crisis, a familiar question echoed across public forums and newsrooms: Why did no one see this coming? (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s weekly education newsletter.) For decades, traditional economic models operated on a set of neat assumptions: that human beings always make rational choices, that markets naturally balance themselves out, and that catastrophic market crashes are rare, once-in-a-century anomalies. But real-world mar

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