O.R.S. Rao
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How India should recruit and train higher education faculty for the AI era (opens the original)
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Ask the toppers of any graduating class what they want to do next- university teaching rarely tops the list. The reason is simple: teaching is not perceived as a competitive, well-paid, or clearly defined career choice. This explains why classrooms across the country are increasingly staffed by overworked, ad hoc lecturers and guest faculty rather than our best youngsters. (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s weekly education newsletter.) As higher education addresses this structural deficit, it fac
The ecosystem divide: why Indian bright minds thrive abroad but stall at home (opens the original)
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Walk into MIT, Stanford, Caltech, or Bell Labs, and you will find Indian-origin scientists driving quantum computing, mRNA therapeutics, agentic AI, and graphics processor design. They run corporate research divisions, win Nobel Prizes, and turn lab prototypes into trillion-dollar companies. Their schooling, their instincts, their work ethic—all of them trace back to India. (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s weekly education newsletter.) So why does the same talent pool, often from the very same g
Indiaâs research paradox: Leading in published papers, but low on citations and patents to universities (opens the original)
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Between 2020 and 2025, Indian researchers published more research papers in Scopus-indexed journals â 1.6 million of them â than any other country in the world, ahead of the United States, the United Kingdom and China. Some private universities saw their gross paper output explode by over 760% in five years. Sign up for THEdge, The Hinduâs weekly education newsletter.) University patent filings multiplied four times, from 11,150 in 2020â21 to 45,776 in 2024â25, with a handful of priv
How IITs and IISc are redefining medical education in India (opens the original)
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In March 2026, IIT Kharagpur—the oldest Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) that has been training thousands of minds to design bridges, cars, and computer chips for the last 75 years did something unprecedented. It formally applied to the National Medical Commission (NMC) to offer a postgraduate medical degree, the Doctor of Medicine (MD). (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s weekly education newsletter.) It was not an isolated move. In August 2026, an alumnus of IIT-Kanpur pledged a massive ₹400
Why higher education institutions should leap towards teaching physical AI (opens the original)
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A few months ago, a Bengaluru engineer’s home-built “Thindy Dosa Robot” went viral for doing something unbelievable: making dosas. It poured the batter, spread it across the tawa with a practiced swirl, waited for the edges to crisp, and lifted it off — not just perfectly round, but golden, crisp, and unmistakably dosa. It was a hobby project, built because its creator was watching his family cook and wondering, “what if a robot could do this while we relax?” (Sign up for THEdge, The Hindu’s wee
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