The Sylff Association secretariat is pleased to share the following News and Voices articles:
NEWS
Belgrade Rector Visits Chairman Sasakawa and Sylff Association Secretariat (Oct 18, 2022)
https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30521/
VOICES
The Role of Education on the Labor Market and Unequal Educational Opportunities: An Empirical Analysis for the CEE Countries (Oct 12, 2022) Nemanja Vuksanovic, who received a Sylff Research Award grant in 2021, conducted an empirical analysis of the economic role of education in the labor market and unequal opportunities in education in the Central and Eastern European countries. While policy makers in these countries need to increase the availability of higher education, financial resources must be primarily directed to the poorer segments of society, notes Vuksanovic; oversubsidizing post-primary education could increase income inequality rather than reduce it.
https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30492/
Religion, Caste, Social Mobility: Researching Precolonial Bengal (Oct 7, 2022) As a 2016 Sylff fellow and 2019 SRA awardee, Abhijit Sadhukhan has studied how religious philosophy and attitudes toward the caste system interact, focusing on a Hindu sect called Chaitanya Vaisnavism. As his thoughts on the subject evolved over time, for his doctoral studies he set out to challenge the conception of the caste system as a static structure and proposes a ‘grammar of change’ in the mobility pattern. His findings, based in part on archival documents in the British Library, contextualizes social mobility in precolonial India.
https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30484/
A Robust India-Japan Partnership is Largely Courtesy Shinzo Abe (Sep 28, 2022) As visiting Japan Foundation scholar in 2011, Madhuchanda Ghosh, a Sylff fellow from academic year 2004-05 to 2006-07 at Jadavpur, had the privilege of conducting a one on one research interview with then Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on his vision for the evolving Japan India relationship. This article, reprinted from Sunday Guardian Live, is her tribute to the late prime minister, who left a lasting and formidable legacy in rejuvenating Japan-India relations.
https://www.sylff.org/news_voices/30464/