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CAT examinations, offbeat courses, IITians on a social cause, Changes in GRE, expansion of NID and a summit on higher education

Every population survey in recent times has revealed that 50 per cent of India is young, below the age of 30. What it has left unsaid, however, is how ambitious India’s young really are. And how much they achieve at an age when their parents, or their grandparents, were still struggling to deal with questions like, ‘What do I do when I grow up?’ Look at any corporate, media or advertising office, check out the McDonald’s and Barista outlets…you will see India’s young interning, working, earning their money and their stripes. Among them are young people who have set up companies even before they have turned 30, have become world champions, cracked IIT exams at 14 and fought the most difficult of circumstances to come up triumphant. In our new section, we will profile people who have defied their age and sometimes circumstances to top their chosen professions and fields.

IISc to have a more diverse student body, fencing and archery to be offered to college students and the CIC visits India on a fact-finding mission

In July, the Parliament will take up the Foreign Universities Bill for debate. Criticism builds up though, as experts warn that international universities in India would lead to a “creation of slums” for majority of students, and a few elite institutions for the affluent and privileged ones. We look at both sides of the picture