Don't be surprised, as I am again writing about almost the same topic, which I already have written about. I was surfing net today, when a news item caught my attention. To follow the news, click here. This news item has been titled "India out of global best campus list". Just to tell you the summary of it, in case you do not want to waste your precious time reading the news, as I have already read, this year's QS World University Rankings, 2010, has been published in London. Among Asian countries, Japan has 10 universities in the top 200; China and Korea have six and five respectively. India has one - IIT Bombay at No. 187, down from No. 163 in 2009. Now thats food for thought. Something wrong is happening. Now we people have a ridiculous habit of forming our own ranking systems, whenever globally our efforts are disrespected. Read on the article and you will find some excuses attributed to the reason as to why Indian universities don't figure in the top 200 universities in the world. Instead of analyzing the cause/causes, we have a brilliant plan. The UGC is all set to roll out its own rankings, I wonder the top slots will all be taken up by IITs, isn't that hard to foresee!!! While there is some good news too. Our honourable HRD Minister is leaving no stone unturned to revamp the Indian Education system. At least now Rancho (of 3 Idiots fame), will be happy, that someone in India, knows "ki padhate kaise hain" and will also be happy about the new grading system. Finally all boils down to just one thing, IITs are not doing what they are meant to do ... at least seems like this is true!!!
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The UGC is all set to roll out its own rankings, I wonder the top slots will all be taken up by IITs, isn't that hard to foresee!!!...very true and well written post
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ReplyDeletethat piece of news was good, I did not know about it but it is certainly important to me :) India surely needs to think about the education system. we are far behind the global standards in many issues not just this :( In-fact I too wrote about the goals of education some time back.
India had a different standard which worked well when there was a run for global resources, but now the world is catching up and it is necessary that India needs to look into the future. Nice post, thanks for sharing
ReplyDeleteI feel your irritation in that a lot of taxpayer money is being channeled into the IITs but far from seeing marketable results, we are even falling short on international accreditations. While I would love to have 10 of our universities on the top 200 list, I guess I want India to make many more good engineers than a few great engineers. We need more universities so that we can educate more and more of our population, and have them compete on the world market. The IITians are a rare breed of very intelligent people who don't need as much help as the rest of Indian students. I came to your blog via Indiblogger. Will definitely visit more, that is, if you are gonna be more frequent in your writing ;)
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