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Manashjyoti Hazarika
Manashjyoti Hazarika is the founder of Educharcha, a platform for critical thinking on education, learning, and leadership. He writes about how technology, incentives, and institutional decisions shape learning outcomes — often in ways we fail to examine closely. His work focuses on restoring judgment, professional discretion, and long-term thinking to education systems navigating rapid change.
Perspectives on Learning & Leadership
Engineering Colleges Are Being Used to Park Students, Not Prepare Them
Why many Tier-2 and Tier-3 institutions have quietly changed their roleEvery year, millions of students enter engineering colleges in India with a simple expectation:...
Perspectives on Learning & Leadership
What Nvidia’s Bet on OpenAI Means for Education
A student preparing for an exam uses ChatGPT to understand a topic that did not make sense in class. Another uses it to improve...
Notes
Why NEET-PG Is Such a High-Stakes Exam
NEET-PG is often described as a “tough” or “competitive” examination. But difficulty alone does not explain why this single test carries such disproportionate consequences...
Notes
NEET PG Admission with Zero and Negative Scores: How other countries are doing it differently
When the NMC lowered the NEET-PG qualifying cut-off to zero - and effectively into the negative - it was explained as a practical response...
Perspectives on Learning & Leadership
Merit vs Seat Wastage: Why Medical Education Is Trapped in a False Choice
Every year, when NEET PG medical counselling reveals thousands of vacant seats, the same argument resurfaces: either admission standards must be relaxed, or precious...
Education
How Did NEET-PG Reach a Point Where Negative Scores Became Eligible?
When the eligibility cut-off for NEET-PG was lowered to the point where candidates with negative scores became eligible for counselling, it triggered disbelief, anger,...
Education
The EdTech Business Model: How Education Is Built, Sold, and Scaled
Educational technology is becoming increasingly visible across schools and colleges. What began as supplementary software is now being integrated into admissions, teaching delivery, assessment,...
Education
EdTech in the AI Age: Promise, Power, and Guardrails
Higher education today operates under pressures that would have been unimaginable a generation ago. Student populations are larger and more diverse. Costs are rising....
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Engineering Colleges Are Being Used to Park Students, Not Prepare Them
Why many Tier-2 and Tier-3 institutions have quietly changed...
What Nvidia’s Bet on OpenAI Means for Education
A student preparing for an exam uses ChatGPT to...
