HRD Ministry rebuffs IIMB's plan to open a campus in Singapore

Now this is what I call hypocrisy!!! You have a B school in your country which is leaving no stone unturned in growing to the leagues of the best international B schools - and you go right ahead and nip its aspirations from the bud. Frankly, I could not make any sense out of the ministry's decision to scrap IIMB's growth plan. What does the government want? Any moolah that the Singapore campus would rake in would help the parent - IIMB in providing better standards of education here in India. But all we want is - just take domestic students and stay content? Aah!!!! This is where we lag behind prominent countries like the USA. Several US universities are planning to venture abroad in the pursuit of creating an even more diverse alumni base. INSEAD France has a campus in Singapore, our very own SPJain has a campus in Dubai which has taken off on a great note - but when the creme-de-la-creme of all Indian management institutes, IIMB, tries it - it is stopped by the government - which wants the institutes not only to take more domestic students but also to increase the quota for scheduled castes and other oppressed minorities. So much for merit!!!!

We had the IITs - now the government wants to set up seven more and dilute the brand value that these institutes hold, not to mention an increase in the quota in these as well. God knows from where the centre is planning to get funds for seven more IITs!!!!!! Will it result in a drop in the IIT standard? Only time will tell.

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Kshitiz