April 13, 2023

Embedding EdTech in Higher Education Institutions

The pandemic posed several challenges to the education sector. Despite these, the whole education sector carried on unscathed, thanks to educational technologies and digital facilities. Educational technologies offer myriad benefits to all stakeholders and enhance the overall capacity of higher […]
February 14, 2023

Strengthening Doctoral Program: Going beyond UGC Ph.D. Regulations 2022

The University Grants Commission (UGC) recently notified its latest Regulations 2022 to award the Ph.D. degree program. Some far-reaching changes have been introduced. and the removal of mandatory research publication and Ph.D. admission to four-year undergraduates with a one-year degree […]
February 28, 2022

Reforming Operational Processes for Online Higher Education

Self-help is the best help, it is said. For some reason, universities are indifferent towards helping themselves by leveraging whatever autonomy they are bestowed with. For over a decade, there has been a need that is felt for online delivery […]
December 20, 2021

Policy Pathways for Online Degree Programs

If governance can be likened to a journey, people are the passengers wanting to reach a destination, facilitating institutions are the vehicles used, processes adopted are the drivers of the vehicles, and the pathways to the destination are the policies […]
September 11, 2021

Logging into Online Higher Education v 2.0

Old is gold is a popular adage. But old giving way for new is a perennial reality. The traditional brick-and-mortar classroom-based education is now passé, at least among a large segment of the higher education sector, which have bet their […]
August 11, 2021

Evaluating Online Evaluations in Higher Education

Not all changes are engineered. Some are unplanned and abrupt. The pandemic has triggered unexpected actions resulting in normalising events hitherto considered implausible. One such new normality is witnessed in the education sector, more specifically in the higher education sector, […]