Indian College Students Face Bleak Prospects

The New York Times has a piece on the lackluster prospects facing the great majority of Indian college graduates. Most of the 11 million students in India's 18,000 colleges and universities receive starkly inferior training, according to the article, heavy on obedience and rote memorization and light on useful job skills. From the article: "In the 2001 census, [Indian] college graduates had higher unemployment — 17 percent — than middle or high school graduates... [At a middle-tier college] 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 said.... [A] final-year student who expects next year to make $2 to $4 a day hawking credit cards, was dejected. 'The opportunities we get at this stage are sad,' she said. 'We might as well not have studied.'"

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Re:This is where college went wrong

[sgt_doom]

No..no..no..that article must be wrong! Every Indian I've heard speak over the past 5 years claims they INVENTED computer science and every app we're using today! No..they are all super geniuses - isn't that what M$, Amazon and Adobe proclaim (Think India and China) Bill's mantra that incredibly stupid newsies repeat for free!

Of course, I've never worked with any Indian "programmer" who ever successfully compiled a program, even when they are (supposedly) triple Ph.D.s, but hey, who's counting.....

Re:Let me just be the first to ask:

[z0ltan]

Du bin ein Imbecile d00d...