The PIE News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As delegates reflect on the vast array of speakers and insights at The PIE Live India last week, they will be left in no doubt that the country is at a watershed moment in its history. The sheer number of international vice-chancellors touring the country illustrates the length of the queue at the University Grants Commission’s door.

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SRHE

AUGUST 22, 2024

But those of us fortunate enough to live in liberal societies – being, as the poet Douglas Dunn puts it, “on the pleasant side of history” – cannot be complacent: the institutional structures that we all-too-readily take for granted and which underpin pluralism and support our freedoms are, we have seen recently, desperately fragile.

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SRHE

MAY 10, 2024

In all this lay the beginnings of an academic ‘research culture’, though well into the twentieth century the Fellows of Colleges did not usually have – or seek – doctorates. It was to take the form of a block grant, which the recipient university might allocate as it chose.

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