[Assam] Rediff: IIT entrance 80% success rate- Bihar -from this coaching school of 30 kids

[umesh sharma]

C-da and Mukul-da,
   
  You both being IITians yourself do have a point (each). 
   
  Umesh

Chan Mahanta <cmahanta at charter.net> wrote:
        Bihar also boasts the highest number of entrants each year to Post Grad. Med. Schools  like AIIMS, to the civil services, to the IITs and what have you. And it is not last year or this year's phenomena. It has been like this for years, if not decades.
  

  But why is Bihar's condition not improving, stuck where it always has been, by and large?
  

  

  The fact of the matter is that these institutions of so-called-higher learning are not producing learners or producers. They produce degree holders, who do get well paying jobs, abroad, or even at home today.
  Good for them.
  

  But what about the STATE or the NATION, whose resources are disproportionately diverted away to benefit a very select few, chosen on exam. writing skills, to ENGINEERING institutions to turn out glorified clerks or stock-brokers for example. depriving so many others of the most basic of primary and secondary education, or the true nation-builders, the carpenters, brick-layerrs, plumbers, mechanics, electricians, nurses, trained teachers?
  

  Or those who do have the aptitude or commitments to becoming creative professionals in their fields of study, but don't quite make the scores in the entrance exams. ?
  

  No doubt there is a need for these institutions of higher learning.
  

  But the entrants to these must have more relevant  selection criteria than exam. writing skills alone.
  

  Like aptitude and a commitment to pursue what the state is subsidizing their training for.
  

  

  It also must make it more equitable to the disparate regions and constituents of the nation, by recognizing learning abilities ( one way to gauge that is by accepting top students from different schools and colleges--and giving them remedial courses if they lag behind in certain areas)  and not entry exam. scores alone. Just look at the disproportionately high Bihar students getting in, while some of the rest are left out in the cold.
  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  At 1:08 PM +0530 6/24/07, mc mahant wrote:
  Congrats tothe "Local Mathematician and the Physics -loving police Chief" who made these 30 get to where the system enabled them to.
But look at the ambition level:
Santosh now aims to earn a doctorate in chemistry and become an inventor. His hero is APJ Abdul Kalam, India's current President and father of the nation's missile program.
  Just as important, Santosh is on track to becoming
Ph.D  may come readily. Inventions -well!!

His hero is APJ Abdul Kalam, India's current President and father of the nation's missile program:
 So many Fathers!! Which missile-which riverlinking-"Must be a Developed Nation by 2020". The press leaves a long shadow.
 
These feel-good things go on and on-like the ones in Assam last month on frenzied celebrations at passing of  Matric/Intermediate exams with high marks.
 
Comments? Feel Good-That's all!
Or ask Dulu Roy.
mm
    
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    Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 22:42:35 -0700
From: jaipurschool at yahoo.com
To: assam at assamnet.org
Subject: [Assam] Rediff: IIT entrance 80% success rate- Bihar -from this coaching school of 30 kids
  http://www.rediff.com/money/2006/aug/16iit1.htm     Any comments?     Umesh  

Umesh Sharma

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Ed.M. - International Education Policy
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Washington D.C. 

1-202-215-4328 [Cell]

Ed.M. - International Education Policy
Harvard Graduate School of Education,
Harvard University,
Class of 2005

http://www.uknow.gse.harvard.edu/index.html (Edu info)

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/ (Management Info)




www.gse.harvard.edu/iep  (where the above 2 are used )




http://jaipurschool.bihu.in/
       
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