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Veritable lows of higher education


Ira Pande
It is now almost 50 years since I passed out of university and almost 30 since I gave up being a university teacher. So I think I have acquired a sufficient distance from the academic world to assess the state of our universities today. In the last half century or so, there has been a boom in establishing new centres of higher education both by the government and private players. Naturally, not all of them are at par, though some private universities (such as Ashoka University and Jindal Law School in Sonepat, or Azim Premji University, Bengaluru) are now regarded as among the best in the country, if not in the subcontinent. However, there are an overwhelming number of dodgy institutions masquerading as centres of excellence that are run by even dodgier owners, who have more often than not used political connections or deep pockets to dupe the aspirational youth into parting with serious amounts of money and no sound degrees to show for their efforts. ....

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