Private institutes: Need of Indian education system
More than 10 million students in India are getting higher education from private institutions or universities. Private institutions compensate for the failure of the education system. It is high time that it is given the status of an industry.. FOUR YEARS ago, I appeared for the engineering competitive examinations but couldn’t score a rank good enough to get admission in a government institution. My dreams of being an engineer were on the verge of being shattered but a private institution came to my rescue. It was not just my case but according to the latest survey conducted by Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER), there are 17,500 colleges and 230 universities providing higher education to 11million students. But the biggest irony is that out of this large number more than 10 million students are getting higher education from private institutions or universities. The figure itself clearly proves, who is playing a bigger role in imparting higher education. Delhi University (DU) received 500,000 applications for 40,000 seats, .....more details here: http://studyinindia100.blogspot.com/2008/07/private-institutes-need-of-indian.html _______________________________________________ assam mailing list [email protected] http://assamnet.org/mailman/listinfo/assam_assamnet.org
