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What are the avenues of postsecondary educational experience available to the student in India today?

Can college education be tailored to one's specific talents and meaningful to the world at the same time?

Is there indeed such a thing as native intelligence? What is the ideal education to bring such intelligences to life?

What are the possible curricular relationships between the arts and the sciences; the qualitative and the quantitative, the theoretical and the experiential?

How deeply should a college education be rooted in a discipline? Should one cultivate one disciplinary strength or multiple ones?

What is more valued by employers - depth or range?

College provides accessible answers to these questions that resonates on a wide range of life aspirations, guiding students to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education across the world today. It is an erudite and interesting guide to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education today.

It is essential reading for current and future college students, their parents, educators and anybody interested in the rich potential in the terrain of post-secondary education in post-millennial India.

About the Author

A novelist, columnist, scholar and educator, Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English & Creative Writing and the Head of the Department of English at Ashoka University. A former faculty member at Stanford, a Fellow at Wellesley College and at the institutes of Advanced Study in Budapest and Stellenbosch, he is the author of five novels and four books of nonfiction, and can be reached at https://saikatmajumdar.com/.
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  • ISBN: 9780143479628
  • Author: Saikat Majumdar
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • Pages: 128
  • Format: Paperback
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What are the avenues of postsecondary educational experience available to the student in India today?

Can college education be tailored to one's specific talents and meaningful to the world at the same time?

Is there indeed such a thing as native intelligence? What is the ideal education to bring such intelligences to life?

What are the possible curricular relationships between the arts and the sciences; the qualitative and the quantitative, the theoretical and the experiential?

How deeply should a college education be rooted in a discipline? Should one cultivate one disciplinary strength or multiple ones?

What is more valued by employers - depth or range?

College provides accessible answers to these questions that resonates on a wide range of life aspirations, guiding students to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education across the world today. It is an erudite and interesting guide to the possibilities contained in the rapidly changing realm of higher education today.

It is essential reading for current and future college students, their parents, educators and anybody interested in the rich potential in the terrain of post-secondary education in post-millennial India.

About the Author

A novelist, columnist, scholar and educator, Saikat Majumdar is Professor of English & Creative Writing and the Head of the Department of English at Ashoka University. A former faculty member at Stanford, a Fellow at Wellesley College and at the institutes of Advanced Study in Budapest and Stellenbosch, he is the author of five novels and four books of nonfiction, and can be reached at https://saikatmajumdar.com/.

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