Total posts: 58
Display:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next »

Tracked by 0 users Track this thread

Post your message
Will adding medicine and law dilute the quality of higher education at the IITs?

Will adding medicine and law dilute the quality of higher education at the IITs? | Read Story

TimePosted by IBNLive at 05:52 PM, Jul 01, 2009 | Updated at 05:53 PM, Jul 01, 2009 in IBNPolitics

Moving Union HRD Minister Kapil Sibal has asked the IITs to expand into new areas like medicine and law and evolve a framework in this regard. Interacting with the IIT directors in the Capital, the minister said that the institutes need to explore the possibility of having multiple campuses, good connectivity and courses with multi-disciplinary approach. Will adding medicine and law dilute the quality of higher education at the IITs? Should IITs remain standalone hubs of technical education?

Should IITs include law and medicine in their curricula?
Yes
58 %
 
No
42 %
 
 

Posted by joshimadhav303 at 12:56 AM, Jul 06, 2009

we are just thank full that kapil sibal as our HRD minister


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by dr vk bansal at 09:04 PM, Jul 05, 2009

DOES KAPIL SIBAL KNOW WHATS MEDICINE OR LAW OR SOCIAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY? WHAT?? HE DOESNOT NEED TO KNOW! QUOTACASTE RESERVATIONS RAJA ! THAT FIGURES.


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by vinayakapran at 09:28 PM, Jul 04, 2009

Idea is good but implementation is tough.


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by ramnathdn at 05:50 PM, Jul 04, 2009

This step will be far meaning ful instead of giving more permissions to hundreds of medical & Law colleges which seldom contribute for medical researches and locical laws for the Indian public --- True Indian


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by abhishekdebroy1 at 04:37 PM, Jul 04, 2009

I THINK ITS A GOOD OPTION...IITS CAN PROVIDE TECHNICAL AND MEDICAL EDUCATION WHEREAS IIMS CAN PROVIDE MANAGEMENT AND LAW....THEN WE CAN RENAME THEM AS IITM(IND INST OF TECH AND MEDICINE) AND IIML(IND INST OF MANG AND LAW)


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by ashimsingla at 11:56 AM, Jul 04, 2009

Kipal Sibal is unfit to be HRD minister. Mr. Manmahon Singh , please remove him from ur union cabinet


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by dr vk bansal at 05:29 AM, Jul 04, 2009

QUACKS OF ALL TRADES! CON=-GRESS GIFT TO MANKIND THIRDRATERS QUOTACASTE reservations rajas.


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by pb_sabnis at 08:07 PM, Jul 03, 2009

And maybe, afterwards, into Arts, Commerce and other fields!!!

Why not create Medical etc. colleges on similar lines as IIT?


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by ank_kir at 07:19 PM, Jul 03, 2009

Mr. Sibal,
Dont think u r Einstein to put forward this idea.
First try to improve Primay education and its quality. thats where the real talent is born.
I think there are humpty no. of engineering colleges in india and IITs are godfathers.
Dont spoil the lone tech temples of india.
Why wont you think of starting new colleges for the same?
Why wont you think about status of Gov. schools in india and make all of them equally competitive with private schools?
Why wont you regulate School fees in private schools and colleges?
Why wont you look into providing seats based on financial status than caste?
Why wont you improve standards of IITs further and make top colleges in world than spoiling them with your so called innovative ideas?
Why wont you look into the fact that there is atleast 50% shortage of professors in colleges?
Why wont you improve the standards of existing medical and law colleges?

Mr.Sibal for gods sake please dont spoil the education further?


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

Posted by muthubalan at 12:54 PM, Jul 03, 2009

The need of the hour is to improve the syllabus and instructional quality of the IITs. manifold, since none of our IITs. is in the top few among higher engineering/ technology institutions of the world, taking such high graders as most European countries (France, Germany, for ex.), the US, Japan,China. The legal and medical professions are having ample expertise. In fact a few subjects other than technology-related ones, such as economics, are already included in the IIT syllabus, and the students do not have enough motivation or inclination, in view of the heavy burdern of A little knowledge in any case could be a dangerous thing unless its limitaions are understood.

There is however nothing wrong for students of IITs., or other courses in engg., technolog, or humanities, as education-seekers, to secure a working knowledge of law and medicine. But that does not mean there such acquisiton process of knowledge should become a formal additional burden to the IIT students, especially considering that the students are hard put to making a good grade in the subjects proper. Some knowledge of law and medicine does help, especially for interacting with the concerned professionals, and particularly when one or one's family members need such professional assistance. This can be easily acquired from the world wide web (WWW), say by Google search (a single search usually throws up tens if not hundreds of thousands of 'results' to choose from, for digesting!) which has enough and more, of such information in these and other practically useful areas of knowledge, even if one has not had an opportunity to obtain the same from a formal course.

On balance, after comprehensive consideration of relevant points, therefore, there is no true justification for including law or medicine in the syllabus at least of higher institutionas of education especially the IITs.


Reply to this post Rate this post Track User Click if Offensive

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Next »

ibnlive.com on mobile: Join debate, leave voice messages on m.ibnlive.com

  • Active Users

srikantiah (4478 posts)

raomeister (4002 posts)

sbhattacharjee (3326 posts)

kkameswaraniyer (3012 posts)

sivaraman89 (2002 posts)

tpod (1813 posts)

shanthanu4640 (1706 posts)

jay1jay1jay1 (1667 posts)