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How College Clubs, Fests, and Events Function as Institutional Learning Ecosystems
Across Indian higher education institutions, college clubs, cultural festivals, and student-led events are not merely co-curricular activities or secondary diversions from academics. They function as essential institutional learning ecosystems, shaping skills, behaviors, and competencies that structured curricula alone cannot fully cultivate. Recognizing their true significance is crucial for understanding holistic student development. This reevaluation of co-curricular engag


Should Students Focus on Grades or Skills? Rethinking Academic Value in Higher Education
For much of modern higher education, grades have served as the dominant currency of academic achievement. They have provided institutions with a standardized mechanism for evaluating learning, ranking performance, and signaling competence to external stakeholders. Within the Indian higher education system, grades continue to hold considerable influence, shaping admissions, scholarships, progression pathways, and early career opportunities. Yet as graduate trajectories become


How to Build Your CV From Year One of College
In Indian higher education, the curriculum vitae has traditionally been treated as a final-year artefact assembled hurriedly in anticipation of campus placements and evaluated primarily on the basis of grades, certifications, and short-term achievements. This perception, however, increasingly fails to reflect how employability is assessed in contemporary labor markets. Recruiters today read CVs not as inventories of credentials, but as narratives of development. What they loo
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