Sreerupa Sil

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Sreerupa is the Executive Editor of BW Education at Businessworld. She's passionate about asking a lot of questions and connecting every possible event's effect on education

Latest Articles By Sreerupa Sil

Online Education will empower humans, not replace them.

Higher Education Apr 24, 2017 5 min(s) read

Although he shares his name with a super-hero of the Indian film industry, Salman ‘Sal’ Khan is no less super-hero when it comes to reimagining education. Giving classes and sharing his knowledge started casually over a Yahoo! Doodle notepad in 2001, later taking shape of this huge online learning resource platform ‘Khan Academy’. Sal, Founder of Khan Academy predicts the future of online education along with its risks in his email chat with BW Education’s Sreerupa Sil.

"We need three types of policy reforms in the education sector."

Higher Education Apr 24, 2017 5 min(s) read

Way back in 1981, a decade before liberalization of Indian economy, he started NIIT Technologies. NIIT University was imagined, envisioned and eventually established by Rajendra Singh Pawar, Chairman and co-founder of NIIT group, in 2009. Reformative, as his ideas always are, Pawar speaks to Sreerupa Sil of BW Education on the immediate needs in the education sector, the three reforms and note for higher education leaders.

Much higher mean and much less standard deviation is what we need in education

K12 Apr 24, 2017 4 min(s) read

Often referred to as ‘The Highest Ranked Civil Servant’ in India, T.S.R. Subramanian, the former Cabinet Secretary has taken up the most ‘firsts’ in the country. In 1992, he went to Washington as the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh and signed the agreement on ‘Education for All’ with World Bank. This was World Bank’s first loan ever to a non-financial infrastructure sector. The often used ‘Right to Information Act’ was first drafted by him. He was highly regarded for chairing the committee to provide recommendations on National Education Policy. This interview with BW Education’s Sreerupa Sil, revolves around his perception on education and understanding the past to lead us to the future.

'IIMs Will Soon Appoint Directors; JNU Research Seats To Go Up'

Higher Education Apr 13, 2017 9 min(s) read

Union HRD Minister, Prakash Javadekar, in an exclusive interview with BW Businessworld, answers a range of questions and says that his priority is to improve education in government schools

'New Education Policy Must Ensure Safety Of Dalit Students On Campuses'

Higher Education Apr 07, 2017 8 min(s) read

In an interview with BW Businessworld’s Sreerupa Sil, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor says India would certainly have modernised and democratised -- without having to go through the ordeal that was colonial rule.

“India has the best brains for engineering”

Higher Education Apr 07, 2017 3 min(s) read

In the recent visit to Indian engineering colleges Mr. Jean Pierre Trotignon, Executive Director, ‘n+i’, network of 45 French Post Graduate Engineering Schools spoke about the Indo-French relationship on engineering education and future opportunities.