Death by degrees

Before our Prime Minister became Prime Minister, he was a bureaucrat. But before he became a bureaucrat, he was a teacher. Perhaps, it is the embers of that long extinct fire which have been now fanned into a flicker of concern — one doesn’t know. But whatever the reason, the news that he has assured a bunch of MPs that he will examine the concerns raised by them over Delhi University’s move to switch from a three-year to a four-year degree programme is the first positive sign in what has been an otherwise unremittingly bleak scenario on the education front.

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