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Are coaching factories tarnishing brand IIT

Are coaching factories tarnishing brand IIT

At a recent event organised at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chennai, Tata Steel managing director B Muthuraman expressed disenchantment with its graduates. We are not likely to recruit them any longer, he said, adding his company preferred students from other colleges, who, though less endowed, were more amenable to company training. IIT guys tend to think too much of themselves.

Reality is that brand IIT thrives on its past reputation. The Tata Steel chief, recalling his recent interaction with some final-year students of IIT Chennai, observed they could not even name the authors of the subject books they were supposed to have studied. He later found out that the students were able to clear the tests without having to read books. He was in for further shock on discovering that their teachers were no more knowledgeable about the subjects they were supposed to teach.

A reason for this sorry state is in the method students adopt to get admitted to IITs. On the one hand IIT admissions have been praised for being free from corruption and undue interference. Surveys by foreign universities ranked IITs quite high.

More : dnaindia.com

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