Media Coverage: Indian Express 24th June 2013

In first year, South Asian University gets 1,000 applications for PhD By Naveed Iqbal In its first year of announcing doctoral programmes, the South Asian University (SAU) in the capital has received more than 1,000 applications for the 40 seats on offer for all SAARC countries. The doctoral programme for biotechnology received more than 500 …

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Cost Of Living

Hari Sharma, an alumnus of South Asian University writes for the Kathmandu Post – In macroeconomics, inflation is among the most researched topics because it has serious consequences for growth, poverty and income distribution. Even a modest level of inflation can retard economic growth by inducing price distortion, lower savings and investment, capital outflow and …

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Towards Gender Accountable Education

An opinion piece by Dr. Garimella Sai Ramani Independent India’s foremost achievement, an inclusive education system, is anything but inclusive for women either in content or in the opportunities that it provides for women to join various research fora.  A recent report of the benchmarking study mapping the opportunities and obstacles faced by women in …

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