Wake up India: Why India must retain talent to grow (opinion)
One might assume that a country producing such successful talent would itself enjoy elite educational status. However, politics and bureaucratic meddling have compromised the quality of once-elite educational institutions like the IITs and IIMs. Bright young Indians have fled in part because India’s corporate and research environment failed to value and compensate them for their talents.
IIT may be a victim of its own success, with the government duplicating the university in almost every state (14 new ones since 1990). The once formidable IIT brand has been rubber-stamped on what could be called ‘provincial universities’. Reservations for staff and students in these new schools have gradually eroded the quality of education. The pool of teaching talent has been stretched thin with the proliferation of new positions, nearly a third of which sit vacant. That figure rises to 40% when counting all Indian universities.
(Courtesy of Sannam S4)
Source: Economic Times
