Comments on: Lower-caste college grads http://www.joannejacobs.com/2006/12/lower-caste-college-grads/ Thinking and Linking by Joanne Jacobs Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:51:22 +0000 hourly 1 By: wayne martin http://www.joannejacobs.com/2006/12/lower-caste-college-grads/#comment-29921 wayne martin Fri, 01 Dec 2006 16:23:19 +0000 http://joannejacobs.com/2006/12/01/lower-caste-college-grads/#comment-29921 > The contradiction is explained, experts say, by the > poor quality of undergraduate education. India’s > thousands of colleges are swallowing millions of > new students every year, only to turn out degree > holders whom no one wants to hire. This issue of providing a quality education seems to plague the Education Industry worldwide. Recent discussions about graduation rates being unacceptably low here in the US seems to have a counterpart, although slightly different, in India—higher graduation rates with lower quality product. > Between lectures there, dozens of students swarmed around > a reporter to complain about their education. > “What the market wants and what the school provides are totally > different,” a commerce student, Sohail Kutchi, said And how many of the professoriate have actually worked in the real world, one might reasonably ask? > The contradiction is explained, experts say, by the
> poor quality of undergraduate education. India’s
> thousands of colleges are swallowing millions of
> new students every year, only to turn out degree
> holders whom no one wants to hire.

This issue of providing a quality education seems to plague the Education Industry worldwide. Recent discussions about graduation rates being unacceptably low here in the US seems to have a counterpart, although slightly different, in India—higher graduation rates with lower quality product.

> Between lectures there, dozens of students swarmed around
> a reporter to complain about their education.

> “What the market wants and what the school provides are totally
> different,” a commerce student, Sohail Kutchi, said

And how many of the professoriate have actually worked in the real world, one might reasonably ask?

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