Don't compare India and China any more. We are not any where near to China in any thing, education, manufacturing, infrastructure etc. If our education institutions are not world class, the products also will not be world class. China, Japan, Taiwan, S.Korea : we are distant behind them. Why not do something about it? Shall we say dejectedly 'this is written in our karma'?
There are a few islands of excellence like TIFR, ISI and IISc. But they mostly have contact only with the West, not Indian institutions. The IITs are not all that bad. Companies like IBM and Intel do have relations with them, e.g. an Intel lab at IIT Bombay. But their students, especially undergraduates, mostly want to settle in the U.S..
We have to improve our colleges and remove the barrier between science and engineering. There is talent but it is suppressed.
world ranking is a self developed system by self made societies ....not a standard UN recognized body or Committee ! Dont worry India is OK and no need for such rat-races
IIT Bombay places four PG students in one cramped room full of mosquitos. The toilets in the hostel are cleaned once a week at the pleasure of the the 'permanent' cleaning staff. The administration has a reason. They were asked to incraese the number of seats across all courses by 30% without any corrsponding increase in the teaching staff, hostels or other infrastructures. Meritocracy is long dead in India but the government's tampering with education system is too patethic. So forget about Global rankings.
How many of these... so called IIT, IIM guys are moving towards teaching or creating new education institutes??? Everyone is looking for better job ... especially in the US... with the excuse that the environment/opportunity is not right in India... but can live with all the racism outside....
The biggest reason is that indian universities lack an over all intergration of academics.
We create world class employees who can be pushed behind a computer and will crunch numbers........buts that not all in today business world. We need to create leaders.
Why do you think Vikram Pandit was kicked out with a notice of as little as couple of hours. At his position, people are not treated the way Vikram was treated......the issue was that Vikram was all number and analytical guy who brought citi group out of the fnancial ditch and made it stable.......but he did not had the leadership quality to take it to next level.
Indian universities need to focus on the leader ship expect more.
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by riyfkm on Nov 16, 2012 01:57 AM
besides 90% of IIT, IIM, AIIMs products move out of the country... sending money back ONLY to support their PARENTS ... till they are ALIVE... then boom... gone...
Beside the example in the article, Andrew Yao, a Turing Award winner, is now working in Tsinghua University. Another famous yong biologist, Yigong Shi, gave up his US citizen and rejected a good position in Princeton, and now is serving in the university too. Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, a Nobel prize winner, is now organizing a foundation voluntarily for the Tsing Hua University to lure famous scientist worlwide. He gets money mainly from those rich Chinese.
