Yoga over Python: how India’s new college curriculum rewards the easiest skills
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India's new undergraduate framework was supposed to fix a broken system — where only 8% of graduates land jobs that match their degrees.
The fix? Give students hundreds of courses to choose from, blend formal education with vocational training, and make them more employable. But when every course carries the same two credits, students do the math quickly and the easier course wins.
Now universities are scrambling, edtechs are stepping in to teach core curriculum, no one's quite sure who's in charge and it's not really clear if this reform is fixing employability yet.
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