NEET and paper leaks may be all over the news these days. But another issue that has been simmering for long seems to have gone without notice or debate. When monitoring and evaluation firms start running oversubscribed courses in research methods, it's worth pausing to ask what that says about the university down the road.
Scroll through any professional's LinkedIn feed, and the pattern is hard to miss. Practitioners (consultants, field researchers, sector specialists) are packaging their expertise into cohort programmes and certification workshops. Seats fill up, waitlists form, and somewhere in the background, a university classroom sits half-empty.
