India is about quantity...not quality. The roof top colleges sprung up all over India must be churning out lot of graduates in all field but they are unskilled and lack quality education. A few CEO's from a population of 1.3 billion is not an achievement, education, specially higher education in India is in a mess.
Also India has a huge population of 1.3 billion and as MS CEO has said the largest untapped market in the world with a low internet usage compared to developed countries, It is more about marketing strategy, an Indian CEO will get all the empathy from Indians, just like you, will get the perks and privileges from the Indian government to expand its foothold in India...why do you think there is no Chinese CEO, though in ivy league colleges in US there numbers are many times higher than Indians...simply for the fact that there is no Google in China, there is WEIBO, no MS, no FB, every thing is localized Chinese platform, so they cannot expand in China...
As for the education standards in Pakistan, there are 7 universities in QS top 300 ranking, a better percentage than India if you compare the population difference, 13,000 Pakistanis in Silicon valley US, about 15,000 Pakistani doctors in US...Google search the data, only HEC Pakistan is spending 50 billion rupees in scholarships for students in foreign universities.
Check the poor Indian education standards here...
Over 80 per cent engineering graduates in India unemployable: Study ...
Read more at:
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com...ofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
NEW DELHI: There seems to be a significant skill gap in the country as 80 per cent of the engineering graduates are "unemployable", says a report, highlighting the need for an upgraded education and training system.
Shocking! Over 80 per cent of engineering graduates in India unemployable
There is a major skill gap in the country as 80 per cent of the engineering graduates are "unemployable".
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/education/story/engineering/1/579010.html
More on Quality of Higher Education in India and Pakistan
A recent
Chowk.com article titled "Indian Technical Recession", written by an IIT Alumnus Mr. Sharad Chandra, asks the following basic question about the quality of engineering education in India:
A few top-tier Indian schools, such as the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), are often compared with world-class schools, but the American investors and businesses have finally learned the hard way that there is huge gap between the few tier one schools and the large number of tier two and three schools in India, and the quality of education most Indians receive at tier 2 and 3 schools is far below the
norm considered acceptable in America and the developed world.
In 2005, the
McKinsey Global Institute conducted a study of the emerging global labor market and concluded that a sample of twenty-eight low wage nations, including China, India and Pakistan, had about 33 million young professional in engineering, finance and accounting at their disposal, compared with only 15 million in a sample of eight higher wage nations including the US, UK, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, Ireland and South Korea. But "only a fraction of potential job candidates could successfully work at a foreign company," the study found, pointing to many explanations, but mainly poor quality of education.
Some India watchers such as Fareed Zakaria, an Indian-American who often acts as a cheerleader for India in the US, have expressed doubts about the quality of education at the Indian Institutes of Technology. In his book "The Post-American World", Zakaria argues that "many of the IITs are decidedly second-rate, with mediocre equipment, indifferent teachers, and unimaginative classwork." Zakaria says the key strength of the IIT graduates is the fact that they must pass "one of the world's most ruthlessly competitive entrance exams. Three hundred thousand people take it, five thousand are admitted--an acceptance rate of 1.7% (compared with 9 to 10 percent for Harvard, Yale, and Princeton)."
For the first time in the nation's history, President Musharraf's education adviser Dr. Ata ur Rahman succeeded in getting
tremendous focus and major funding increases for higher education in Pakistan. According to Sciencewatch, which tracks trends and performance in basic research,
citations of Pakistani publications are rising sharply in multiple fields, including computer science, engineering, mathematics, material science and plant and animal sciences. Over two dozen Pakistani scientists are actively working on the
Large Hadron Collider; the grandest experiment in the history of Physics. Pakistan now ranks among the
top outsourcing destinations, based on its growing talent pool of college graduates. As evident from the overall results, there has been a significant increase in the numbers of universities and highly-educated faculty and university graduates in Pakistan. There have also been some instances of abuse of incentives, opportunities and resources provided to the academics in good faith. The quality of some of the institutions of higher learning can also be enhanced significantly, with some revisions in the incentive systems.
Just to add the below post is written by an Indian...there are some who speaks truth and accepts the problems and discrepancies....
India does not have any reliable indicator of 'who is a literate person'. Plenty of surveys investigating claims of 'literacy' levels achieved show official claims of 75% + literacy in India to be false. If real literacy is the ability to receive and communicate information through text, then literacy in this country is much below 50%. Half of all people the Govt says are literate cannot even read the destination written on a bus! This is shameful but it has to be recognised.
India needs a 4 stage graded definition of literacy, in which only those at the highest level are counted as fully literate. Such people can read a newspaper and read and write a letter. People who can name or write some alphabets are only at Level 1. Such persons are not literate.
I know what I'm talking about. I have met many women in West Bengal who were counted as literate 15 years ago because they learned how to write their name so as to sign for a loan. Most of them have now forgotten. My wife is illiterate. No one bothered to send her to school, and anyway children do not learn to read and write in most Govt schools here. I have tried to make her literate in Bangla but, having reached middle age, I doubt that she will ever become literate.
Functional illiteracy is still a huge challenge for India. At this moment a new generation of illiterates is growing up all over the country because of : out of school children ; teachers who only pretend to teach ; teaching methods from the time of the British Raj. Bharat Sarkar ! Get real ! Get off your lazy bottoms ! Look around the world a little. Look at our impoverished neighbour, Bangladesh. Brazil and Bangladesh show the way to India, towards full literacy. No magic - just honesty, intelligence and hard work over a generation. One more thing ! Women and girls come first !
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