Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), Durham University 2016/17 Fellowships

Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), Durham University 2016/17 Fellowships
The Institute of Advanced Study is Durham University's major interdisciplinary research institute, providing a central forum for debate and collaboration across the entire disciplinary spectrum. The Institute seeks to catalyse new thinking on major annual themes by bringing together leading international academics as well as writers, artists and practitioners.
The theme for 2016/17 is 'Scale', interpreted in its broadest sense – scientifically, symbolically, legally, philosophically, literarily, politically, economically, and sociologically. Applications are now invited for up to 20, three-month fellowships (October-December 2016 and January-March 2017), linked to the annual theme. Applicants may be from any academic discipline or professional background involving research, and they may come from anywhere in the world. IAS Fellowships include honorarium, travel, accommodation, subsistence and costs associated with replacement teaching or loss of salary (where appropriate). Further particulars are available from the IAS website www.dur.ac.uk/ias. Further details of the 2016/17 'Scale' theme can also be found here. Informal enquiries with the Directors of the Institute can be made via Linda Crowe, the IAS administrator (Tel: +44 (0) 191 3344686 or email linda.crowe@durham.ac.uk). Closing date for applications is 05 June 2015.
Eligible applicants will be partly funded by the European Union, through the Durham International Fellowships for Research and Enterprise (DIFeREns).

Research
Fellows will contribute to the Institute's annual theme.The Institute provides its Fellows with a setting that offers them time and freedom to think, away from the demands of their everyday professional lives. By recruiting Fellows from all around the world, the IAS also provides an exciting intellectual environment in which thinkers from diverse cultural and disciplinary backgrounds can exchange ideas. Fellows will engage and forge strong links with at least one department at Durham, and be given the opportunity to deliver papers at events organised to coincide with the annual theme.

Theme
The theme for 2016-17 is Scale, interpreted in its broadest sense to be of potential interest to those working in a wide range of disciplines. A number of specific sub-themes have already been identified, including:
    Temporal and Spatial Scales
    Understanding and Representing Scale
    Human Scale
    Scale and Measurement
    Living Scales
    Sustaining Scales
    Governing Scales
    Technological Scale
    Scalability and the effects of Scale
Fellows will be able to engage in these themes or to propose others that are related to the theme of Scale.
Fellowships are available for a 3-month period between October 2016 and March 2017. Applications are considered from researchers or non-academics who have a well-established or strongly emerging international reputation, have made major contributions to their field, and can provide evidence of research leadership and/or public impact. They are expected to have played a significant role in shaping their discipline or field through their outputs, achievements and indicators of esteem. It is expected that the research or professional interests of applicants will complement the 2016/17 annual theme. Up to 20 IAS Fellowships are available each year.

CfPs: 57th ISLE Annual Conference, 10-12 October, Srinagar

Call for Papers

57^th ISLE Annual Conference, 10-12 October 2015, Srinagar, India

The 57th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Labour Economics (ISLE) will be held during 10-12 October, 2015 at Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir. The Conference is being jointly organised by Central University of Kashmir, Srinagar and S. K. University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Kashmir. Professor Ravi Srivastava, Centre for the Study of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi is the Conference President.

Conference Themes 1. Unpaid Work 2. Right to Work & Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 3. Labour and Employment in Manufacturing Sector

Submission of Papers:  Papers along with a summary of 1000 words may be sent to:

Dr. Preet Rustagi, The Hon. Secretary, Indian Society of Labour Economics, NIDM Building, IIPA Campus, I.P. Estate, New Delhi–110002 or emailed to: conference.isle@gmail.com with a copy to 57isleconferencecukmr@gmail.com. Abstracts of papers selected for the Conference will be published and circulated among the Conference participants. Selected revised papers would be considered for publication in the subsequent issues of the Indian Journal of Labour Economics subject to peer review.

Best Paper Awards: Two awards have been instituted for the best paper writers, below 40 years: Ruddar Datt Memorial Award and Sanjay Thakur Young Labour Economist Award (carrying prize money of Rs. 10,000 each). The papers on any of the Conference themes to be considered for the award should be presented by the paper writers themselves. Contributors willing to be considered for the awards are requested to furnish age proof along with the single authored paper before the deadline.

Surjit Singh Fellowship: The ISLE also invites applications from scholars below 40 years of age working on labour and employment issues for the award of one Fellowship of Rs.50, 000/- instituted in the memory of former Secretary of the Society Dr. Surjit Singh. The application should contain a short proposal (about two-three pages) providing details of research objectives, hypotheses, methodology and theoretical framework of the study. The awardee is expected to prepare a comprehensive research paper/monograph by the end of 2015 and also present a paper based on it during the Conference. The last date of submitting the application is 7 May 2015 and the decision of award would be communicated by 20 May 2015. (Visit www.isleijle.org for more details.)

Conference Registration:

	Conference Registration Fee Structure		Dates to Remember
Category	ISLE Member	Spouse/ Accompanying  Person	Dates of the Conference: 10-12 October 2015 Last Date for Submission of Papers: 31 July 2015 Communication from ISLE about acceptance of Papers: 14 August 2015 (Those who would like to receive early communication of the acceptance of their papers should request for early information in this regard while sending their papers). Last date of registration: 15 September 2015
India (Rs.)	2000	1500
Developing countries  (US$)	100	75
Other countries (US$)	200	150

Note: Participants, who are members of ISLE but have not renewed their membership for the year 2015, or are not members of the Society need to pay the membership fee to be able to attend the Conference. The annual membership fee is Rs. 1000 for those from India, US$ 100 for those from developing countries, and US$ 125 for those from other countries.

Demand draft (DD) drawn in favour of "local organizing secretary ISLE 57", payable at Srinagar, should be sent by 15 September 2015 to the Local Organizing Secretary, Professor. G.M. Bhat, Head, Department of Economics, and  Dean, School of Social Sciences, Central University of Kashmir, Srinagar with soft copy to 57isleconferencecukmr@gmail.com

Besides participation in pre-conference event (planned between3.00 p.m. – 7 p.m. on 9 October 2015) and all the sessions of the conference, registration will entitle the participant to avail modest boarding, lodging, Conference kit and other Conference materials.

INDIAN SOCIETY OF LABOUR ECONOMICS

c/o Institute for Human Development

NIDM Building, 3rd Floor, IIPA Campus

I.P. Estate, Mahatma Gandhi Marg, New Delhi - 110 002

Phones: +91 11 23358166/23321610; Mobile: +91 - +91- 9871177540

Fax: + 91 11 23321610

For further details and updates, please visit: www.isleijle.org or

email your queries to: conference.isle@gmail.com; 57isleconferencecukmr@gmail.com

More: http://www.epw.in/indian-society-labour-economics-isle.html-1

CfPs: APSTSN Biennial Conference on Disasters, Controversy and Public Engagement; Taiwan, 1-4 Oct

Science, Technology and Society Biennial Conference

Disasters, Controversy and Public Engagement

Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Oct 1st~4th, 2015

 Conference Website

APSTSN is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the biennial conference, to be held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Oct 1st~4th, 2015.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 30th, 2015

Deadline for submissions of individual papers and session proposals

Conference Website: http://apstsn.tw-sts.org/

Conference Themes

Over the past several years, the Asia-Pacific has experienced disasters on various scales and severity, often compounded by technological system failures, such as the 311 earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, the Sowel ferry disaster in Korea, and the propene explosion in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In addition, recent scandals regarding food safety in Taiwan and China have created a sense of urgency. These disasters and threats have brought major controversies over how to ensure a safe future in a risk society, and they have also drawn people from different sectors to participate in the discussion. Most importantly, the public has become even more critical in shaping the climate of civil and policy making opinions. Confronting these disasters, how do we mobilize and empower the public to engage in the improvement of a technological society in order to increase our resilience in the face of giant disasters?

Confirmed keynote speakers and panelists

Deborah Bird Rose University of New South Wales, Australia
Tadashi Kobayashi Osaka University, Japan
Kuei-Tien Chou National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Hee-Je Bak Kyung Hee University, Korea
Sulfikar Amir Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 
Science and technology in society has an important role to play in investigating disasters wherever they arise. We would therefore like to invite scholars and activists to exchange ideas and findings on the topic of disasters, controversies and public engagements in the Asia-Pacific region.

All STS topics are welcome, including but not limited to:

Biosciences	Food & Agriculture	Medical Care
Business	Finance & Markets	Gender & Technology
Modeling & Numbers-work	Indigenous Knowledge	Normativity & Normalization
Citizenship & Activism	Information & Media	Post Humanities
Science & Law	Multi-Species Relations	Energy
Risk	Environment & Ecology	Government, Policy & Politics
Theory & Method	Science Communication	Disability & Assistive Technology
Post-Colonial Science	Knowledge & its Limits	And more

Important Dates:

February 1st , 2015                         Submission opens
April 30th, 2015                         Deadline for submissions of individual papers, session proposals
May 30th, 2015                               Acceptance Notification
July 31st, 2015                                 Early Bird Registration closes

(All presenters must register to be included in the program. For papers with more than one author, one presenter must register to be included in the final program.)

Proposal Submission:

*Individual submission abstract:

Individual submission abstracts should be up to 250 words. They should include the main arguments, methodology, and their contribution to the STS literature. Paper titles should not exceed 10 words. Please list five key words to assist the program chair to group individual papers into a session. You may choose to submit your paper abstract to one of the topics listed above where you would prefer your paper to be included, or you can leave panel selection to the program chairs.

*Session proposal abstract:

Session proposal abstracts should have a maximum of 200 words. Each session proposal should contain a summary and rationale, including a brief discussion of its contribution to STS. Session proposals should be designed to fit one-and-half-hour time slots. A typical session will contain three papers with a discussant. A maximum of four paper abstracts conforming to the above criteria for abstracts must be submitted for a proposed session.

TO SUBMIT, please visit   http://apstsn.tw-sts.org/

Presentation time: A feature of APSTSN conferences is that adequate space and time is provided for presentations and questions. For each presentation, we will arrange 20 minutes for the delivery of the presentation and 10 minutes for questions as a minimum.

Program Participation: To ensure there is adequate time for the above we request that individuals may be listed for only one paper presentation as the presenter and one other role (such as session chair or discussant but not a second paper) for a maximum of two appearances. That is, we request one single authored paper and one co-authored paper as the limit with regard to abstracts and presentations.

Special Planning:

STS Fair (Oct, 3rd Saturday afternoon 3:00~5:30pm)

Science, Technology and Society (STS) researches have always paid special attention to social involvements of academic findings. The 2015 APSTSN conference will hold an interactive STS FAIR session, to encourage networking between scholars, social activists, policy makers, government agents, industrial managers, designers and representatives from communities, NGOs, NPOs, and more. We hope participants will gain insights for developing projects and future collaborations. This fair is thus intended to nurture STS networking and research that integrates social practices and academic advances.

(Please see website for details - including submission instructions, financial support and registration fees.)

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Dr. Anup Kumar Das
Web: www.anupkumardas.blogspot.com
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CfPs: 10th Annual Conference of Knowledge Forum on Technology, Growth and Sustainability, 27-28 Nov; Bangalore

10th Annual Conference of Knowledge Forum

Conference Theme: Technology, Growth and Sustainability

27-28 November 2015

Host Institution: National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore

Organized by:  Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing [FGKS.in]

Co-organizer: Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)

Call for Papers
Under this overall theme the following topics would be discussed:

• Innovations
• Global business
• Employment – education and skill
• Gender issues
• Demographic dimensions including aging
• Resources and climate change

Conference Format
The conference will have an introductory session followed by Competitive Sessions and Case Studies. In the competitive sessions all the papers will be refereed before accepted for presentations. Case Studies Session will be mainly organized by INAE.
Last date for submission of title of papers and abstracts May 30, 2015.
Last date for full paper submission July 30,2015
Send the abstracts and paper to fgksindia@gmail.com
Hon. Director: Prof. N. S. Siddharthan, nssiddharthan@gmail.com
Convener of Conferences: Prof. K. Narayanan, E-mail: knn.iitb@gmail.com

Further Details: http://fgks.in/event/index.htm

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英他看了看身后奶奶一眼，继国一点的油，晓多刻意把灯调公独的学习着。也不知道过了司更加努力地砍柴，他要多砍注活,他也一直这样努力着。册便。一条河流穿过小镇，自	3800	7	全外务工，从小晓多就和爷爷套城市的一本大学，也是他们政在暗暗得屋子安静要命，只府原因，很多原本应该受教育文课后自己练习。回到寝室的件更加努力的学习。晚上，一+掉灯，拿着书本便冲了出门国资料，他只得把老师讲的每际活，也没有去想分数的事。域解，因为他有梦，一个支持名一丝的暖意，晓多如果手冻+没有新年而开始玩耍，而是企到一丝的亮光，就这样，在业们的家庭状况比晓多好，所邮知道晓多在做什么，因为他局。就要走的前夜，晓多没有+。白岩村是流水镇最穷的村会假生活都如此，只有到了晚计一点的油，晓多刻意把灯调师，您们不要累着"。没事，核名列前茅，他也有他的梦想证村子，村中百分之九十的成本通过自己的努力改变贫困的一套
英学校都要准备好几天的干粮国多就和爷爷奶奶生活在一起公里能看到一丝的亮光，就这司从小晓多就和爷爷奶奶生活年。十几天后，晓多以优异的审	1980	1	注考前的那个寒假，晓多回到册自己在同学那里买来的很破地只有窗户里能看到一丝的亮址丝的自然光而继续苦读。时+有钱买教辅资料，他只得把秘复习起来，不管寝室有多闹书就哈哈气，搓搓手。孩子，服得屋子安静要命，只有晓多务
香便冲了出门，坐在小板凳上港里屋。在暗暗得屋子安静要公就辍学在家，很早地承担起司孩子，很晚了，睡觉吧"奶注力认真的听课，没有钱买教册由于舍不得花费多一点的油	4780	7	全奶干农活，也没有去想分数套变贫困的生活,他也一直这政假就要结束了，晓多比平时府跚地从里屋走来，望着晓多文。回到寝室的晓多，翻开书件每一题，但是他很平静，他+中唯一的一位高中生，父母国列前茅，他也有他的梦想，际着年迈的爷爷奶奶。柴大约域那里买来的很破旧的手电筒名。考上大学，离晓多的梦就+他肚子里装有知识，这些题企况比晓多好，所以他们也不业索着回到里屋。在暗暗得屋邮支持者他前行的梦。六月份局晓多比平时更加努力地砍柴+要砍足至少白天烧的柴火，会小晓多就和爷爷奶奶生活在计认真地做每一题，但是他很师也有他的梦想，那就是通过核外也静得如此，不时有几只证了，整个屋子没有一丝的暖本屋子安静要命，只有晓多笔一套
香晓多刻意把灯调节得很暗很港一起。然而，晓多成绩特别公到了晚上才能学习。眼看寒司，也是他们村子里的第一个年声音。窗外也静得如此，不审	2580	1	注是通过自己的努力改变贫困册上的柴和草送回来，因为家地都要准备好几天的干粮和一址要别人的理解，因为他有梦+奶。柴大约可以用十几天，秘北方向敞开着，所以交通不书钱买教辅资料，他只得把老服暗，只有窗户里能看到一丝务，反正天大亮了，晓多把书+0因为家庭经济原因，很多原报是村中唯一的一位高中生，税己的事。晚上，学校熄灯了（背上背兜，拿着刀就往山上利孩子，很晚了，睡觉吧"奶得还能干活，你安心地读书吧税多久，反正天大亮了，晓多、着，所以交通不便。一条河物秀，在第二中学的班级里一业续苦读。时间不知又过了多税您们不要累着"。没事，爷、手电筒，开始自己的午夜苦薪始玩耍，而是更加努力的学俸镇离市中心约六十公里，但税灯亮着，由于舍不得花费多）
B旧的手电筒，开始自己的午VI晓多刻意把灯调节得很暗很公着泪水。天开始灰白，晓多司在第二中学的班级里一直名注晓多是村中唯一的一位高中册加努力地砍柴，他要多砍一	5980	15	全煤油灯亮着，由于舍不得花套。要高考前的那个寒假，晓政都要准备好几天的干粮和一府多却很高兴，他立马灭掉灯文帮助爷爷奶奶干农活，也没件亮光，就这样，在黑暗的灯+一级陪着年迈的爷爷奶奶。柴大代才能学习。眼看寒假就要结理活,他也一直这样努力着。证躲哉被窝里，拿出自己在同明+国多久，只见窗外可以看见光际高中生，父母都在外务工，域，他要多砍一点，这样，爷名+企摸了摸晓多的头，此刻的奶业都在外务工，从小晓多就和邮夜苦读。寝室里打鼾声此起局习。眼看寒假就要结束了，
子里，背上背兜，拿着刀就塞个屋子里很暗，只有窗户里舌十公里，但却四面三面环山尔是更加努力的学习。晚上，公等着柴火，小猪还等着吃食司暗得屋子安静要命，只有晓注火熄灭了，整个屋子没有一册爷爷奶奶，您们不要累着"	3980	15	全的流水镇更是异常的贫苦。套天后，晓多以优异的成绩考政寒假，晓多回到家，但他并府敞开着，所以交通不便。一文地从里屋走来，望着晓多。件有梦，一个支持者他前行的+终于到了学校。在学校，晓一就要到来，三年的苦读也要级飞过，晓多就这样孤独的学代烧的柴火，同时，他也要割理上借着那一丝丝的自然光而证望着晓多。奶奶，我不困，明破旧的手电筒，开始自己的+一丝的亮光，就这样，在黑国整个屋子里很暗，只有窗户际他的学习。奶奶叹了一口气域看见光了，虽然很暗，但是名晓多的头，此刻的奶奶眼中+终于到了学校。在学校，晓企多的行为。晓多也不需要别业行装，准备去上学。晓多经邮便冲了出门，坐在小板凳上局晚上才能学习。眼看寒假就

代公里的路程去上学，就这样开暗的灯光下苦读。火熄灭了汇角的流水镇更是异常的贫苦丰到来，三年的苦读也要见成账因为家庭经济原因，很多原户第二中学的班级里一直名列    一题，但是他很平静，他肚无来，不管寝室有多闹，他依需少白天烧的柴火，同时，他赴着书本便冲了出门，坐在小港。晓多的每个寒假生活都如    全的事。十几天后，晓多以优程晓多就这样孤独的学习着。代烧的柴火，同时，他也要割办得屋子安静要命，只有晓多    是异常的贫苦。此镇离市中特的村子，村中百分之九十的惠里，拿出自己在同学那里买价这样孤独的学习着。也不知2200   认真的听课，没有钱买教辅网，就哈哈气，搓搓手。孩子址公里，但却四面三面环山， : ww，只有窗户里能看到一丝的w.ki命，只有晓多笔在纸上滑动yagro样努力着。他不怕吃苦，因up.com

服静得如此，不时有几只蝙蝠务级里一直名列前茅，他也有优制的帐篷，因为不想花费更势每个寒假生活都如此，只有

全们不知道晓多在做什么，因程都如此，只有到了晚上才能不孤独的学习着。也不知道过经多就这样孤独的学习着。也代生活都如此，只有到了晚上理爷爷奶奶。柴大约可以用十亲学习。晚上，一把苍黄的煤手得不行，就哈哈气，搓搓手递多也不需要别人的理解，因交的学习。奶奶叹了一口气便、来的很破旧的手电筒，开始注口气便慢慢地摸索着回到里册要高考前的那个寒假，晓多、难。高考结束了，晓多也就年原因，很多原本应该受教育审"奶奶步履蹒跚地从里屋走、，不时有几只蝙蝠飞过，晓报吧"奶奶步履蹒跚地从里屋税多的钱，所以晓多就要步行一要步行六十多公里的路程去条的努力改变贫困的生活,他龙只蝙蝠飞过，晓多就这样孤服生活都如此，只有到了晚上务加努力的学习。晚上，一把 支人都去外打工。因为家庭经付事。十几天后，晓多以优异宝叹了一口气便慢慢地摸索着担，那就是通过自己的努力改保鼾声此起彼伏，但是他们不交条河流穿过小镇，自西北向易着年迈的爷爷奶奶。柴大约货面三面环山，只有东北方向到就躲哉被窝里，拿出自己在付。六月份就要到来，三年的款背上背兜，拿着刀就往山上，100%家庭的重任。王晓多是村中开调节得很暗很暗，整个屋子户因，他每次去学校都要准备承水镇最穷的村子，村中百分诺里的第一个大学生。考上大无起家庭的重任。王晓多是村效，所以他们也不会理解晓多退，他依旧做自己的事。晚上款心地读书吧"爷爷摸了摸晓 为。晓多也不需要别人的理顺，晓多如果手冻得不行，就丰可以看见光了，虽然很暗，快每一题，但是他很平静，他递上学。晓多经过两天的步行护习。眼看寒假就要结束了，送泪水。天开始灰白，晓多开资是坐在床上，陪着年迈的爷料多笔在纸上滑动的声音。窗安要见成效。考场上的晓多认全丝的自然光而继续苦读。时有他并没有新年而开始玩耍，保，晓多也就回到了家里，帮障做每一题，但是他很平静， 所有资多却很高兴，他立马灭掉灯料是一整天，只有中午回来把皆从里屋走来，望着晓多。奶由亮了，晓多把书收好，走到国的那个寒假，晓多回到家，际暗，只有窗户里能看到一丝权的一本大学，也是他们村子威知识，这些题目对他来说不会书收好，走到屋子里，背上计说不是很难。高考结束了，师此起彼伏，但是他们不知道核个支持者他前行的梦。六月证要割好小猪吃的草，而且一

Register Now! UNESCO’s Online Media and Information Literacy Course for Youth

Register Now! UNESCO's Online Media and Information Literacy Course for Youth

UNESCO, in partnership with Athabasca University and in cooperation with the UNESCO-UNAOC University Network on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue, opens a third call for registration for online course on media and information literacy (MIL).

This entry-level online course will provide youth with basic media and information competencies to become critical citizens and agents of change. The course is designed to enable youth to:

• Understand why media and other information providers are important to development and democratic societies;
• Recognise a need for information and to locate, access, organise and carefully evaluate information and the content of media and other information providers;
• Use and share information based on moral principles or accepted standards of social behaviour – in light of opportunities and potential risks;
• Interact with media and other information providers to freely express themselves, share their culture and learn about other cultures, promote gender equality, and participate in democratic and development activities.

The course is based on the MIL Curriculum and the Freedom of Expression (FOE) Toolkit published by UNESCO. A central theme throughout  this 10-week course is how media and information literacy can enable youth to be actively involved in intercultural dialogue, advocating for equality between women/girls and men/boys, and freedom of expression. 

The course is offered through Athabasca University's online e-Lab, using the learning management system, Moodle.  Most sessions will be self-directed, with ongoing interaction with the course presenters in the online space. Athabasca is a Canadian university that holds a UNESCO Chair on open education resources. Athabasca University is an associate member of the UNESCO-UNAOC University Network on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue.

Applicants should be youth (females and males between the ages 15-25). Participants who successfully complete the course will receive a certificate from Athabasca University.

In order to successfully complete this course participants will need regular access to a computer and Internet access to download documents, listen to podcasts and view online videos.

To apply, please click here. Application must be completed by 20 April 2015. There are no associated fees to participants who wish to do this course.

This MIL course includes a research component being carried out by UNESCO.

Online Media and Information Literacy Course Units

Unit 1 – Media and Information Literacy (MIL): An Introduction

Unit 2 – Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Unit 3 – Media and Information Literacy: Evaluating and Using Information and Media Content

Unit 4 – Media and Information Literacy: Using Research and Analysis to Produce Your Own Information and Media Content

Unit 5 – Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Information, Freedom of the Press

Unit 6 - Representations of Gender in the Media, Books, on the Internet and in History

Unit 7 – Media and Information Ethics in Relation to the Needs of Big Business, Politics and Development

Unit 8 – Understanding and Evaluating the World of Advertising

Unit 9 – The Challenges and Opportunities of Media, Libraries and New Technologies for Youth

Unit 10 – Engaging with Media and Using New Technology and Information for Social Action

 

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IE OpEd "Higher Education, Higher Meddling: No quick fixes can help public universities if successive government exercise power unbridled by reason"

"Higher Education, Higher Meddling: No quick fixes can help public universities if successive government exercise power unbridled by reason"
by Shahid Amin , Shobhit Mahajan | The Indian Express, April 4, 2015

Garib ki joru sab ki bhaujai (A poor man's wife is fair game). If anything captures the goings-on in the HRD ministry since the reign of Kapil Sibal, it is this saucy peasant proverb from the cow belt. Irrespective of the shade of the successive Central governments, the HRD minister and functionaries display a propensity, Alice in wonderland-like, for exercising power unbridled by reason and reasonableness. This has come to the fore most recently in the refusal of Anil Kakodkar, the respected nuclear scientist, to play ball with the minister in arbitrarily overruling an earlier consensus and interviewing no less than 36 candidates for the post of IIT director in a single day. "IITs are centres of excellence. They should be left alone," Kakodkar has responded in defence of having left the important task of choosing heads of these premier institutions to the minister and her epigones.
Six years ago, a UPA minister unrolled a plan to create 14 world-class universities ("universities of innovation") "unencumbered by history or culture of the past" — something that no world-class institution would dare boast. The underlying idea is to build islands of excellence by relying on "the highly skilled Indian diaspora". Now, fast on the heels of a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research's diktat making it mandatory for all research scientists in its employ to put in 12 hours of gyan-daan in educational institutions outside their research labs, comes the news that US President Barack Obama has accepted the GIAN proposal mooted by the Modi government. As with other "smart" acronyms, when unravelled it yields the cumbersome phrase: Global Initiative of Academic Network. Under this programme, top-notch scientists will teach in Indian institutions from between two weeks to 20 days. This is clearly an India-specific movement of global academic talent, following on the heels of Sibal's still-born scheme to invite premier universities from the UK, Europe and the US to set up off-shore subsidiaries in our country.
The normal flow of international and inter-university academic talent is, however, for such outstanding academicians to hold regular joint-appointments for a semester each in two universities. Ronald Dworkin, the late professor of jurisprudence (the US and the UK) and the brilliant social historian Carlo Ginzburg (Italy and the US) are leading examples from the social sciences. We lost one of our most innovative sociologists, Veena Das, the author most recently of Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty — an ethnographic study of the urban poor, the "aam admi voter" of north Delhi — to the US, as "under the rules" Delhi University could not allow its faculty such intellectual freedom to benefit from and contribute to knowledge globally in a sustained way.  The new fortnightly GIAN idea of the Modi government, by contrast, envisages a veritable "fly-by-night" rapidfire igniting of Indian students' minds. More significantly, there has been no discussion. In fact, an earlier HRD minister was opposed to the idea of enabling India-based academics (Veena Das worked under the legendary sociologist M.N. Srinivas during the golden days of the Delhi School of Economics) to hold joint appointments in "foreign" universities. For its part, the US government allows Indian academics to teach semester- or year-length courses in American universities under a visa regime meant to facilitate "skill development", requiring a time-bound return to the home country for putting the skill gained to domestic use. The visiting Indian academic, one would have thought, gets paid because she contributes value to the particular US university, which invites her, so to speak, for her "skill-imparting" qualities!
The present government is equally keen on pressing the high visibility insta-cook button, while stirring the slow bubbling gruel of higher education with the ladle of ill-thought, top-heavy recipes. A one-size-fits-all uniform course content across the country is to be matched by a single Central Universities Act riding roughshod over historical specificities; students could now move effortlessly, with scant regard for compatibility, from one university to another, as teachers could be shunted out, the intrepid Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka way, wherever and how so many times the Indian state deems it fit for them to serve the educational requirements of the nation, and in whichever part of the India that is Bharat it deems fit.
It is interesting that the question of institutional autonomy catches public attention when, as in the case of the Kakodkar story, it concerns flagship institutions such as IITs. By implication, for the rest of us wallowing in the mud of public universities, there seems scant possibility of more than a few stunted lotuses blooming. Equally, due to the structure of almost magisterial authority allowed under the colonial dispensation to vice chancellors, the professoriate in these institutions fails signally in its fiduciary obligation to uphold academic and moral norms. Not for nothing were the fellows and professors of Oxford University able to out vote their VC's attempt to award an honorary degree to a controversial politician from the subcontinent. And some paid a price for it, as when Richard Gombrich, the renowned Indologist, was denied the chair at Oxford that S. Radhakrishnan had once held, as he had successfully opposed the honouring of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto by Oxford University, citing his inglorious role in triggering the 1971 war.
For their part, desi institutions such as Delhi University cannot quite effect Bertolt Brecht's sardonic suggestion — if dissatisfied with the existing lot, "elect another people". For the usual vishwa vidyalayas, the parameters are given: a national intake of students from unequally diverse backgrounds and a sudden doubling of enrolment and influx of first-generation students. And most crucially, a system that gives the faculty no say whatsoever in choosing its own colleagues.
No amount of quick-fixes can help our public universities meet the new challenges as long as the cavalier and top-heavy system of faculty recruitment is allowed to continue.
Amin is a retired professor of history and Shobhit Mahajan is professor of physics, Delhi University.
Source: http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/higher-education-higher-meddling/

Online Comments
Katyal: The article does not make much sense. However, given the fact one of the authors is Shobhit Mahajan, the famous charsi student from St. Stephens, it is no wonder he was able to create such a mishmash of drug induced literature.
Gopal: It's shame for academics to write so poorly. I am inclined to agree with them anyway on this issue but all they done is to offer a few anecdotes. My guess is that the real problem is - balancing of two concerns: the heavy handedness of centralization and the poor quality of management with decentralization. How can we balance one against the other so that we can get good governance? It's a question that bedevils India.
SP: Not sure if author is blowing up some issues or has chosen wrong examples. Sabbaticals are possible for our faculty. Many cases people going to a job with much higher pay at times do not come back. So there may be reasons for existing rules. Nothing wrong if HRD Minister takes a hands on approach in recruitment of IIT directors, as long as it is part of her job. I think we should be hasty in prejudging issues. The GIAN program may be more convenient to international faculty, as many may not want to leave their position in University for a full semester.
Sanket Sudke: There are so many universities in India with millions of students. Why is everybody focussing on IIT's, IIM's etc. ? Better reform the university system instaed of setting new IIT's.
K M: Wonderful point. Every one is obsessed with IITs snd IIMs whose products are ultimately selling syrup water or working in finance markets. The real people who are providing the technical muscle are the students coming out of the second rated and third rate universities. it is the students from private Engg. colleges who migrated to US and other countries and brought laurels to the country. The Govt should concentrate on the other universities where masses are studying.
B. SRIDHAR: It is an undeniable fact that our educational system has been systematically polarized by leftist intellectuals and needs urgent course correction. All the educationalists are leftist liberals mostly from Du or JNU. Anil's resignation was indeed stupid and unnecessarily hyped by the media. He could have sought time to interviewing and the reason cited by him is stupid to say d least. If educationalists seek to do the same things they were doing for the last six decades then the author is living in a fool's paradise. It will be morally correct for people like Romila to keep safe distance because time has come to correct the wrongs
V.S.Malhotra: How can we throw blame for meddling on those in whose make up we all are involved. Were they not at one time sitting in front of us in our class rooms like "clean slates' - to use John Locke's phraseology - on which we could write any thing we wished.
Farhan Ansari: We should educate farming to children in every school in india. America searching these childern to become farmer. The Mechanic
K M: Are you ready to send your son to do farming or to do the job of mechanic?