Unshackle Indian Education
Abhinandan has a post agreeing with a TOI editorial, which states that Indian Education needs to be unshackled.
While he isn’t particularly happy with TOI highlighting the fact that IIMB was denied the permission to start a satellite division in singapore, he suggests that complete autonomy for IITs and IIMs would be a good move
While at it, I might as well propose something as impractical as demanding ‘complete autonomy’ for institutions like the IITs and IIMs: let the government allow IIMs (and other such institutions that are confident of surviving by themselves) to go completely private. They have the brand equity and clout to pull it off. [During the dotcom boom, there was indeed a proposal from some IIT alumni to take the IITs private]. They will then be truly unshackled!
The benefit for IIMs (and other such institutions) is that they can then pursue their interests without having to worry about those of the others (and those of the government in particular).
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Shivam Vij
January 20th, 2006, 5:29 am | #
How exactly has the govt shackled managment education, given that the private sector is very much allowed to start managment institutes. And there are so many of them. That none of them has been able to rival the IIM’s is another matter altogether, Arindam Chaudhuri’s claims notwithstanding!
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