New Delhi: Minister of State (MoS) for Human Resources Development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor on Friday rued that the quality of higher education in the country was "extremely uneven" and prescribed specialised training by institutions to its recruits as one of the solutions to bridge the gap.
Speaking at the 2nd convocation of the Max Institute of Medical Excellence in New Delhi, the new MoS for HRD said there was a dearth of good and quality education in the country though brain was the biggest asset of the people.
"Our biggest asset is brain. But those minds need to be shaped, they need to be nurtured and they need to be trained. When it comes to higher education, the quality is extremely uneven. On the one hand, we have world-class institutes like IIT and IIM," he said.
"And on the other, we have second rate and even third rate universities which produce graduates. But most of them end up unemployed and this is the reality which we face," the former UN diplomat told students....
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07:43 PM, Nov 02, 2012
