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Just to set facts straight - for best of Indian students UK hasn't been destination of choice for higher studies (for awhile I think). I come from one of the to

by gnufied 14y ago

Just to set facts straight - for best of Indian students UK hasn't been destination of choice for higher studies (for awhile I think). I come from one of the top 10 engineering universities and none in my batch selected UK for higher education. I repeat None. It may sound little weird, but the reason UK, Australia and New Zealand universities needs selling in India is because "it needs selling". UK isn't attracting brightest Indians (probably just richer students), it is US that gets best of them. As for India's education system - it is meh agreed. But I believe our undergrad (read B.S) is just fine. It is higher education and research facilities where we have done a thorough whack job. But this won't be fixed overnight. Problem starts from rather poor salary of university professors, little research grants and last but not the least, smart people attract other smart people. Brain drain[1] indeed is a problem for us, but the problem will need fixing by improving quality of higher education. 1.http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-brain-trade http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...

sk5t 14y ago
One could expect engineering students to stick to top Indian schools and a few in the US, but someone interested in law, history, humanities, etc., would have a very difficult choice between Oxbridge and anywhere else at all.
easternmonk 14y ago
"But I believe our undergrad (read B.S) is just fine." - That is not true.
- adamnemecek 14y ago
  Could you elaborate on that (I know nothing about the Indian education)? I was under the impression that the IITs were good. Would you disagree with that? Or is it that there is a couple of schools which are good but the rest is so-so.
  - eshvk 14y ago
    The IITs take a bunch of smart people in. These are people who have the necessary drive, intelligence to succeed in any environment. That doesn't necessarily mean the institute itself is good or something. As far as the rest of education system, my experience was that rote memorizing was encouraged and people were not necessarily taught how to think or even encouraged how to think. I dunno, maybe it is a cultural thing but I didn't like it.

by gnufied 14y ago

sk5t 14y ago

One could expect engineering students to stick to top Indian schools and a few in the US, but someone interested in law, history, humanities, etc., would have a very difficult choice between Oxbridge and anywhere else at all.

easternmonk 14y ago

"But I believe our undergrad (read B.S) is just fine." - That is not true.

adamnemecek 14y ago
Could you elaborate on that (I know nothing about the Indian education)? I was under the impression that the IITs were good. Would you disagree with that? Or is it that there is a couple of schools which are good but the rest is so-so.
- eshvk 14y ago
  The IITs take a bunch of smart people in. These are people who have the necessary drive, intelligence to succeed in any environment. That doesn't necessarily mean the institute itself is good or something. As far as the rest of education system, my experience was that rote memorizing was encouraged and people were not necessarily taught how to think or even encouraged how to think. I dunno, maybe it is a cultural thing but I didn't like it.