Should citizens be treated differently based on the colour of their skin? Most people would say not, but others insist that they should—if the ends are sufficiently enlightened. Not long after America dismantled over two centuries of slavery and segregation, it embarked on a project of “affirmative action”: legally sanctioned positive discrimination for African-Americans (later […]
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Aug
Aug
Milton Friedman used to joke that nothing is so permanent as a temporary government programme. So it nearly was with America’s moratorium on student-loan payments. The debt-relief scheme—which suspended payments, interest charges and collections on more than $1trn in federal student loans—was passed by Congress in the early days of the pandemic. Although meant to […]
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Association of American Universities names members to task force on expanding US-India university partnerships
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Apr
Apr
New Delhi: Association of American Universities has appointed a 15-member task force to explore expanding research and higher education partnerships between the United States and India on Tuesday.The team, in coordination with the Biden administration’s US-India initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET), seeks to grow technological and industrial collaboration between the two nations. Members […]