Thursday, February 26, 2009

Institute(s) of higer learning....


What purpose our institutes of higher learning serve? I am skeptical about contributions of IITs and IIMs in nation building (compared to fundings they get). These institutes produce highly paid executives, mostly– yet our govt is spending huge amount of money for them while there should have been more investments on the primary education. Well , is it without any reasons? No.
• Opening an IIT /IIM/ University in a state is considered to be an achievement for the people’s representative who can cite that for seeking votes in the next election. This will create job opportunities for few hundred peoples as well – another reason why “you vote for me”. A primary school may not be that fruitful as long as ‘return’ is concerned.
• Guess what is the picture above? It is a university that WB CM is going to inaugurate in few days from now. Lest I forget, election is nearing!!!
Here is the src of the photo-> http://www.anandabazar.com/archive/1090226/26south1.htm

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is always the case and it would never ( or atleast not in my lifetime I can expect to ) change.

Indian Home Maker said...

You know I always feel that this money should be spent on providing good basic education.

Those who study in such institutions should spend their own money and we should allow thousands such private institutions to run in the country.

In fact anybody who studies in government sponsored (paid by the tax payer) institutions must also sign a bond to work for and serve the rural population for five, 10 years...

Indian Home Maker said...

No email address here, I wanted to ask something about North East. Read on a blog, but no links anywhere ... could you email me at indianhomemaker@gmail.com please?

Anonymous said...

->shabs
thanks for yr comments.....i m inclined to hope that we 'd see some changes in our lifetime...lets hope.
->ihm
concur to ur points. i also feel higher education should come with some cost but primary education should be free and accessible to every citizens. i'd email you when i could find some blogs/materials on ne-india.

thanks
zakir