Education

As a realist optimist in a post Corona world, I foresee a new world order where societies and nations are remodeling and realigning to a more resilient and more forward looking future driven by science and reason.  Lest we forget, in the in the killing fields of a different kind during the last 2000 years of our existence mankind has confronted more than 20 different epidemics and has lost over 400 million lives. In these times of the unprecedented Novel Corona or the COVID19 epidemic outbreak, it is estimated that we may lose over a million lives with over 10 million [...]

I touch the future. I teach, as I quote these ominous words of Christa McAuliffe, perhaps no one ever had thought of the looming disaster of the Covid-19 pandemic! Yes, universities have faced major challenges, such as in the wake of the technotronic age and the onset of the MOOC courses and have undergone major transformations, in their functions, nature and scope but none that will bring us to the ultimate challenge of new normal. Let us take a brief  is however little in terms of their governance structures as also the teaching learning process and the pedagogy, to cope with [...]