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Contents

 

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Preface

Truth Telling - A Tough Job

 

Improving the Teaching and Practice of Software Development in Indian CS & IT Academia

My preprint "Paper", Improve the Practice of Software Development in India by …: Ranked highly by Internet search engines and Google Scholar; Paper text

Ten Computer Science (CS) & Information Technology (IT) higher education policy changes to improve practice of software development in India

Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality in Practice-Oriented Computer Science/Information Technology streams

Discussion on Concrete Suggestions for Measuring Teaching Quality ...

Wrote to Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, on improving practice of software development in Indian CS & IT academia

Poor software development skills Indian CS graduates - Google Search Results

Comments (of former CS academic from UK) on Software Development Career Track Paper

CS & IT Academia: Serious Systemic Problems?

CS & IT Academia: How To Relieve Suffering of Students, Parents and Employers

CS & IT Academia: Inform Students About Software Contribution Record of Faculty

CS & IT Academia: Profs. May Not Like Idea of Software Contribution Record

Publicly Funded Higher Education Institutions should put up Detailed Course contents on the Internet

My suggestions related to skill development in Indian higher education on mygov.in discussions on New Education Policy

How MHRD (& DIRECTOR IIT) disposed of my "Serious Systemic Problems in Indian CS IT Academia" grievance dated Nov. 2011, DOING NOTHING REALLY

About me not being Ph.D. or qualified in Computer Science but yet teaching lab. courses and being tech. consultant in an Indian deemed university in the past

 

Views of Top Leaders (Country Presidents/Prime Minister/Ministers/US Senators) on Education

Education and IT related parts of President Mukherjee's address to Parliament; My comments

Education and IT related excerpts from PM Narendra Modi speech in Lok Sabha on June 11th 2014

Education Related Parts of US President Obama's State of the Union 2014 Speech

USA - Student Right to Know Before You Go Act

First Question in 2nd US Presidential debate: Student asks about employment after graduation!

 

Research vs. Teaching

Nature and Science (Top International Research Magazines) 2011 Articles on Lack of Importance Given to Teaching Nowadays

Suggestion of Separate Tracks for Teaching and Research by US Academics

India (and Other Emerging/Developing Countries) Should Not Obsess about Higher Education Rankings

Improving Indian Academic Research and Teaching: Have Separate Research-Intensive Universities and Teaching-Intensive Universities

Is Academic Research Grant Money Corrupting Academic Teaching Ideals?

CS & IT Academia: Is Teaching Excellence Important?

Is a PhD in CS/IT Necessarily a Good Teacher?

A Defense of The CS/IT PhD Teacher

Suggestion of Separate University Rankings for Research Excellence and Teaching Excellence

CS & IT Academia: Research vs. Teaching

Should M.Tech.(CS) Project be CS Research Oriented Or Software Engineering Project Oriented?

HRD Minister Javadekar says research not necessary for promotion for college teachers; university dept. faculty however need to do research

HRD minister Javadekar tells truth about UGC AICTE academia problems; removes mandatory research for college faculty (but not university faculty); assures UGC AICTE reform

Dr. Pushkar's articles on research req. for Indian college teachers producing fake research and reducing teaching quality; historical background of Indian academic research system

 

IT Finishing Schools

IT Finishing Schools

More on IT Finishing Schools

 

Academic PhD Club & Bureaucratic POWER structure

CS & IT Academia: The PhD Glass Ceiling

CS & IT Academia: A Bureaucratic POWER structure

The very strange case of 20th century era Department(s) of Mathematics and Computer Science in Indian academia in today's early 21st century world

 

Indian Engineering Colleges: Graduate Employability Problems

Private study claims: Less than 9% of Indian engineering students have required programming and algorithm skills for IT product company jobs

GATE and UGC NET CS & IT exams can be employability measures if they include practical knowledge assessment

The Hindu's higher education student guidebook - thenxt.step 2013 - CS & IT picture

2014 National (India) Employability report - Poor Employability of Andhra Pradesh Engineering Graduates

 

Miscellaneous

A Tough View of UK CS Academia

The Software Development Professor!

Is (Seoul Accord) Accreditation using Outcome Based Assessment methods the way forward to improve teaching standards in Indian CS & IT academia?

US CS PhD student's Comparative View of US and Indian Academia

Prof. Stroustrup: Software development is a potentially noble profession like medicine or classical engg. disciplines but long way to go

 

Appendices

Appendix A: My software field biodata, software industry work experience and lab. courses I taught

Appendix B: Holistically Elite CS/IT Education vs. Technically Elite CS/IT Education

Appendix C: Discussion and Debate on lack of Proper Warranty for Software, and need thereof

Appendix D: List of some other eklavyasai blog posts including on “How to Teach Programming?”