Shailaja Neelakantan

GlobalPost

Shailaja Neelakantan covers India for GlobalPost. Neelakantan has been reporting from India since 2002, and she is the South Asia correspondent for the Washington, DC-based Chronicle of Higher Education. Her articles have also appeared in Forbes, the Wall Street Journal, the Independent, Salon, Red Herring, Business 2.0 and Far Eastern Economic Review. She has degrees in politics and journalism from the University of Delhi and Columbia University in New York.

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India: Science school leads global trend in higher ed

Manipal University was born in a developing country and focuses on students in other developing nations.

India: Science school leads global trend in higher ed
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Foreign teachers help Indian professors up their game

Foreign teachers help Indian professors up their game
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India builds data network to reach the stars

India builds data network to reach the stars
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Will India open up to foreign universities?

Will India open up to foreign universities?
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Training entrepreneurs to transform India

Training entrepreneurs to transform India
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Indian school teaches how to become an entrepreneur

Indian School of Business, just 9 years old, is ranked #12 by the Financial Times.

Indian school teaches how to become an entrepreneur
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India's super rich educators

A new breed of philanthropists is changing India's education system.

India's super rich educators
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Pakistan: Educating girls

A successful program tackles and intractable problem.

Pakistan: Educating girls
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Educating girls in India

An after-school program in industrial Delhi sets out to right the gender imbalance in Indian education.

Educating girls in India
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Fighting corruption at India's universities

Kidar Nath Bansal is no "ordinary man."

Fighting corruption at India's universities
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Fighting the powers that be

Pervez Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist and teacher, has seen just about everything.

Fighting the powers that be
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Education: Teaching infrastructure and other new necessities

How "old" technologies are helping scholars reinvent the New India.

Education: Teaching infrastructure and other new necessities
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India education: Engineering going off the rails?

India's bid for full Washington Accord membership, an elite honor, has been postponed again.

India education: Engineering going off the rails?
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India education: Opening the doors to foreign universities?

India's education minister says the country can't afford not to.

India education: Opening the doors to foreign universities?
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India education: Going green

A young Indian university shows Yale the way.

India education: Going green