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There is a crisp answer: the disparity in pay between the tech sector and teaching jobs. When you get 3-4 times the pay in a software job, only the desperate an

by sn41 6y ago

There is a crisp answer: the disparity in pay between the tech sector and teaching jobs. When you get 3-4 times the pay in a software job, only the desperate and the dedicated opt for teaching. That is a recipe for disaster. Dedicated teachers might demand more pay, so it is mostly people who can't find a tech job for the moment, and are desperately unhappy to teach, and ready to flee as soon as they get a software developer position.

downerending 6y ago
Put another way, why is this problem worse in India than it is in the US? Those factors would seem to apply more-or-less equally in both places.
- sn41 6y ago
  In the US, for-profit education (Univ. of Phoenix-type) is equally bad. I think there is a report by former Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) from circa 2011 on this. [1] But almost no US educational institute is for-profit, many run on endowments. The teaching faculty often have PhDs. The faculty in CSE even in teaching colleges have had post graduate education, often involving research. The teaching staff in Indian for-profit colleges are essentially the stragglers among the UGs from similar for-profit colleges. Poor pay with a shoestring staff willing to work for that pay is part of the business model. [1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/30/harkin-releases-critical-report-profits https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/07/30/harkin-releas...