There was a lot of hue and cry over the remarks that Mr Narayan Murthy made about the slump in the quality of education in IITs. He talked about the need to overhaul the selection criteria for students seeking admission to these institutions. He said, "Thanks to the coaching classes today, the quality of students entering IITs has gone lower and lower." Let us look at the import of the three statements. The first idea is about the slump in the quality of education. How should we measure the quality of education provided by an institution of higher learning? Is it based...
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