A fierce debate has erupted at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, after its Department of Electronic Systems Engineering introduced a strict attendance and parking policy. According to media speculations, the rules mandate up to 80-hour workweeks for senior PhD scholars. While the department cites \u201cdiscipline,\u201d students call it \u201coppressive,\u201d sparking a national conversation on India\u2019s glorification of overwork.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A fierce debate has erupted at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, after its Department of Electronic Systems Engineering introduced a strict attendance and parking policy. According to media speculations, the rules mandate up to 80-hour workweeks for senior PhD scholars. While the department cites \u201cdiscipline,\u201d students call it \u201coppressive,\u201d sparking a national conversation… Read More »80-hour week at IISc? New attendance rule; students protest<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":71341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfortnite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}