India blocks 73 URLs criticizing IIPM, an MBA college

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Fascinating.

Currently our (UK) Prime Minister is in India trying to sell our universities (amongst a lot of other things) to Indian students. Lovely bit of inter-cultural exchange right? Generally speaking, yes, absolutely. The more the merrier as far as I am concerned. However...

Back here in the UK, the very same PM has trebled the costs of going to university for English and Welsh students, pricing many out, raised the education thresholds meaning less students can qualify, while he is supported by racist right wing tabloid Murdoch press who hate immigration, foreigners and most of all dark skins who threaten middle class house prices. Oh yeah, our right wing is that racist. Yet there he is offering unlimited places for rich Indians who can afford UK universities, while clearly snubbing Indian education. If proof of a substandard Indian education system were needed, the rich flocking to the UK for it will do the mass Indian population nicely.

So, here we have our PM pricing out his own country's students, claiming immigration is out of control and evil, while offering to open the flood gates to Indian rich kids who can afford UK education, while snubbing their own, which clearly has its problems as shown by this article.

While I personally am all for immigration, (and believe me Indians in particular have done the UK proud, and me personally, so much so I argue they are more British than us fairly useless white lot) I cant quite work out how this all plays out for both the Brits and Indians. Seems like a perfect slap in the face to both of us.

This whole thing is a bizarre contradiction to me. If we in the UK really wanted to help India out, perhaps we could have out flag ship universities help the Indian education department (whatever) improve its own situation. Er, freely share our education knowledge.

Oh.... Freedom of information. Can't have that, can we?

Anyway, I'm a bit confused by the whole thing. And I can't help thinking our PM is making it worse, mostly for the Indians. If the cream of their crop flock here, then where does that leave their education system? If Indians fill out the university places left by Brits who can no longer afford it, where does that potentially leave race relations in the UK?

Oh, last thought. What if these students stay on afterwards? Brilliant for us, but aren't we then brain draining India? Again, at a detriment to them?

Yup, confused.

(For Brits reading... yes I know Scotland's education is separate.)

Indian here. It is.

The reality is that the policy in India, has not been formally formed about copyright. Whoever takes this battleground, will have a significant advantage on his side.

IIPM, is actually a viral sort of university, with an aggressive strategy of hard marketing, slight overstatements, and over time, they are indeed becoming better and better. But at the cost of many lambs.

as someone said here, its a degree mill for now.

Just to set facts straight - for best of Indian students UK hasn't been destination of choice for higher studies (for awhile I think). I come from one of the top 10 engineering universities and none in my batch selected UK for higher education. I repeat None.

It may sound little weird, but the reason UK, Australia and New Zealand universities needs selling in India is because "it needs selling". UK isn't attracting brightest Indians (probably just richer students), it is US that gets best of them.

As for India's education system - it is meh agreed. But I believe our undergrad (read B.S) is just fine. It is higher education and research facilities where we have done a thorough whack job. But this won't be fixed overnight. Problem starts from rather poor salary of university professors, little research grants and last but not the least, smart people attract other smart people.

Brain drain[1] indeed is a problem for us, but the problem will need fixing by improving quality of higher education.

1.http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/the-global-bra...