The Cream of India's Colleges Turns Sour  

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Mahajan, Neelima

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Far Eastern Economic Review vol. 170 no. 01 (2007), page 62-65.
Topik: Higher education; Colleges & universities; Quality of education; Education policy; Labor supply

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The Indian Institutes of Technology are India's best-known education brand and a sign of the country's latent brainpower. The success of IIT alumni is legendary. Getting into an IIT has always been considered a momentous achievement in India. But all is not well with India's premier technology institutes. At the recently concluded Pan IIT Alumni Global Conference, India's president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, sardonically remarked that the IITs selected the cream of India's best children, so the output is also the cream. What he said next was a bit of a shocker: The value addition by IIT is very low to the students it admits." There are other problems too: The IITs are not doing enough - in terms of number of graduates, programs or research - to meet the needs of a high-growth economy. If the government continues to ignore these issues, it could set the IITs on a path of rapid decline.

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