When the need of the hour is to make enhanced provisions for basic and primary education, it is ironic that the Centre is keen on subsidising higher education.

THE first round in the IIM fee episode has gone the Union Human Resource Development Minister, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi, way, with the Supreme Court questioning the locus standi of the petitioners and asking for a break up of the fee structure.

But does it vindicate his proposal to slash the fees for courses at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM)to Rs 30,000 a year that has kicked up a huge, nation-wide row?

The premise for pruning the fee structure is that the cost to society on an IIM student is Rs 3 lakh and that of an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) student Rs 1.5 lakh and that the benefit from such students to society is disproportionate to the cost.

If the Minister has in mind the droves of engineers and management graduates emigrating to greener pastures after making full use of the services provided by the Government and the institutions here, he may be mistaken because in a globalising and liberalising world markets are opening up everywhere and India’s centres of educational excellence can be in demand only if they maintain quality; opportunities are sure to knock at their doors soon enough.

The economic reforms have unleashed the entrepreneurial spirit and a swathe of industries has become competitive in price, quality and delivery of goods, especially abroad.

The centres of management and technology learning are partly instrumental in this process of promoting a Brand India image for a variety of products, in the process giving their alumnus also an international recognition.

Little wonder that even as liberalisation of trade in services is still under way, countries such as Singapore, Sri Lanka and other countries are sending out feelers for replicating the IIM/IITs.

The Manipal Academy of Higher Education, the pioneer private medical college with the fee structure even for Indian students “marked to market”, leave aside the higher fees for non-resident Indians and students of foreign origin, has already replicated its experiment, and runs medical colleges in Oman, Nepal and some South-East Asian countries.

The IIMs, the IITs and MAHE may be exceptions rather than the rule because these institutions blossomed after years of development. In the case of the IIMs and the IITs the role of the Government and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) is considerable.

IIM students have done the country proud, and there is ever-great demand for them. The entry into the prestigious course is entirely merit based, and the kind of talent the IIMs attract is the obvious envy of other centres of learning because professors do not dissipate their energies on reluctant students.

That is why legions of middle-class people hanker after admission to these institutions to ensure a sound career for their children. With loans for pursuit of education available at reasonable rates, many a parent makes it a point to see that his ward gets into the best course and the best institute, which offer such a course. Ergo the rush for IITs and IIMs.

The yard behind the boy’s hostel at Xavier Labour Relations Institute, Jamshedpur is strewn with discarded packs of Gold Flake Kings, Wills Classics and other expensive brands of cigarettes. The students here are the best, the brightest, and the richest - for this is one of the top-ranked MBA and Human Resources programmes in the country, the training ground for the young Turks of corporate India. Across the tree-lined main road that bisects the Jamshedpur campus is a another dormitory - spartan quarters where a group of grown men live together, eschewing private property and on a salary of Rs 6,000 each. They are the Jesuit fathers, who carry on the Catholic legacy of educational excellence into the forefront of business education in India. It is perhaps the greatest of ironies - that these very men who have renounced worldliness are so adept at training young men and women to become the most privileged and economically successful members of our liberalised…

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Students, the poor feel classification on their morale. Students would then have the fact that enrolment in school so prominent in the classification

Pune: Pune quickly lose their glory as a centre of educational excellence? The latest survey results Business Today Cosmode B of the best schools in the country is quite showing that the fungi in the soil of one of the institutions I during recent years, and more emphasis on placement On a toll on the quality of education.

None of the 40-odd Bschools number of Pune in the top-30 positions in the investigation. University of Pune’s department of Management Sciences opened the account in the 36th position, followed by the relatively new Modern Indian Institute of Management (IIMM), 49.

The Institute for Development and Research Management (IMDR), and a reputation of the institute, in the past, has slipped in the 41st position in the 2000 survey to 65 this year, while Bharati Vidyapeeth — Institute of Management and Rural Development, management, Sangli, 78.

The Symbiosis Society, the two houses you Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) and Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM), 16 were placed And 17 In the 2000 survey, this year, will not participate.

SIBM Arun Mudbidri said the director of its establishment and SCMHRD have refused to participate in the survey, at least for the three years.Having acquired the status of university, there was no reason to compete with B — Schools independently.

While schools in the B debt parameters of the investigation, saying it was “evolution of the position,” the best management gurus, however, that the institutions, the results of the survey with a pinch of salt and some introspection.

Senior Counsel for the various research institutions of higher education and a visiting professor at the University of department of the Faculty of Management, SW Bhave, the guilt of the Bschools their complicity in the qualification.

“The emphasis has been mainly on the provision of investments and the persistent recession, it has a growing gap between the demand and supply of professional managers of local institutions,” he explained.

Pune director of the Institute of Computer Technology’s School of Information Technology and Management, Kumar Srinivasan, said that the poor performance of Pune Bschools’s nontechnological was amended by a background.

“The focus is now on technology and the convergence programmes. Until that adaptation to market requirements, can be achieved much,” he says.

IMDR AP Bhupatkar director, while the debt for the surveyors “short-sighted” on certain factors, “said introspection is urgent. “The scientific methodology and implementation has been totally ignored,” he said.

Director of the University of Pune’s department of Management Sciences, Chandrashekhar Chitale, a human resources guru, went to the prospect of a general discussion, but said his (the Institute) to the position 69 in 2000 to 36 For this year.

Students, the poor feel classification on their morale. Students would then have the fact that enrolment in school so prominent in the ranking.