yet another 'expert' speaketh.
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From: Shahryar <shah >
Date: Aug 28, 2006 9:15 AM
Subject: India's faltering education system
To: Rajeev Srinivasan <rajeev>
I thought it was a universal truth that teachers always get less money but better tenure (and usually gold-plated pension plans) than workers in the private sector!
India's faltering education system
| | By Kaushik Basu Professor of economics, Cornell University |
On the one hand, India's higher education system is widely acclaimed.
With Indian managers and consultants crowding investment banks, Indian computer scientists sighted in Silicon Valley with the abundance of wildebeests in an African safari and IIT-trained engineers not only working all over the world but appearing in Dilbert cartoons, there seems to be good reason for this.
Yet, over these last two months that I spent in India I came across repeated warnings from prominent personalities associated with Indian academe.
For instance, the scientist CNR Rao, the sociologist Andre Beteille and, most recently in a lecture in Calcutta, Mr Narayana Murthy of Infosys, who is also chairman of the board of directors of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, have all warned about India's faltering higher education system.
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4 comments:
I liked this one; this came as a fwd mail. This is so true in Indian context
"If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress? "
@KapiDhwaja : Did not know it was old. Heard it for the first time.
You don't seem to be posting much these days
Multiple factors + a little busy.
But i do visit this blog atleast a couple of times a day [blame it on habit]. Also have been following most of your comments as well :-)
A somewhat syrupy reference to the "Islamic poet" toward the end - but Tavleen Singh calls it right again.
Tavleen is a new 'convert' to Indic greatness - and I suppose she goes about it with the zeal of a convert. I remember she made a TV program some years ago suggesting that Hindus should not rally for banning cow slaughter - even though this is a Directive Principle of State Policy - look for Article 48
More acute analysis from Subramanian Swamy (call it opportunism, deceit whatever you wish). As the Yanks would say - hope he continues to smoke whatever he is smoking.
Also a good piece by Balraj Madhok whom a lot of folks don't know as the former Bhartiya Jana Sangh head-honcho.
He was ersatz-Hindutva's first political casualty when he got red-carded out of the Sangh "on the grounds that since Muslims had become allergic to me they would not join the party" - in his own words!
Certainly amongst Punjabi Hindu drum-beaters in the 1960's Madhok was the man and not Vaypayee, and a lot of them dreamt of him as the future PM - socking it back to the Islamists after a 1000 years of subjugation - but sadly the "moderates" outdid him politically.
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