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Rajesh Kumar B

Co-founder, Kalvium

One of the four co-founders of Kalvium. Has spent 18 years building education businesses in India, most recently writing publicly on higher- education reform, the NEP 2020 rollout, the engineering teaching crisis, and the case for treating engineering education as an operating system rather than a content delivery problem. Arjuna Award alumnus, IIM Kozhikode (2019). Young Alumni Achiever, PSG College of Technology (2012). Detailed bio pending.

4 posts

B.Tech

What does the perfect engineering classroom actually teach?

Students pick colleges by ranking, fees, and placement rate. Almost nobody asks the question that decides what you can do four years later: what does this place teach, and how often does it change?

AI Skills

Why studying feels impossible right now, and what AI actually fixes

More learning content exists than ever. Sustained learning is harder than ever. The bottleneck isn't content or access. It's the feedback loop motivation runs on, which is exactly what AI can rebuild.

Careers

Most of your engineering teachers don't actually want to be teachers

Faculty salaries at decent engineering colleges now beat entry-level IT jobs. The best BTech graduates still don't pick teaching. The problem isn't pay. It's that we've designed an impossible job.

Careers

India's engineering education problem isn't content. It's the operating system.

1.5 million engineers graduate in India every year. 20% are employable in tech roles. We've been blaming the wrong thing for two decades. The real problem is the operating system, not the content.