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Preface
Truth Telling - A Tough Job
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Improving the Teaching and Practice of Software Development in Indian CS & IT Academia
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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
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Views of Top Leaders (Country Presidents/Prime Minister/Ministers/US Senators) on Education
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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!
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Research vs. Teaching
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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
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IT Finishing Schools
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IT Finishing Schools
More on IT Finishing Schools
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Academic PhD Club & Bureaucratic POWER structure
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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
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Indian Engineering Colleges: Graduate Employability Problems
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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
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Miscellaneous
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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
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Appendices
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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?”