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To: RealMuLan who wrote (17688)	12/5/2004 2:33:56 PM
From: arun gera	Respond to of 116555

>No surprise, since both India and China have a system inherited from ex-USSR<g> I think it works fine in countries with big population> In India, there has always been some mixture of private and public enterprise in education. There is a tradition of missionary schools (convent schools, as they are known in India) that have done a great job till high school education. The Indian elite used to send their kids to such schools. The convent schools followed the A Level and O Level curriculum in UK. Therefore, these kids learnt more about the West than India. For example, Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek, and frequent guest on popular TV shows is a product of Cathedral School in Bombay. Lately, there has been a proliferation of elite high schools serving the top 0.1 percentile of India urban elite and diaspora. Other non-profit trusts of various India communities have also opened up schools with various quality levels. At the Bachelor's degree level, there was enough private enterprise. The Universities were all Govt. bodies, and were responsible for accrediation of colleges. Colleges themselves were funded by trusts funded by various communities. There was always a clear preference for the community that funded the collge. About 40-50 percent of seats were preferentially allotted to students of the funding community and the rest on merit. Professional programs such as engineering and medicine were supported by Govt. funds. Entry was tough and only the top 5 percent of qualified candidates were admitted. In the 1980s, some states such as Karnataka (Bangalore)opened the doors for private engineering colleges and the phenomenon has spread to other states. This opened the less meritorious to get an engineering degree. The IT boom of the 1990s allowed the growth of franchise education outlets (similar to Devry in US)teaching very specific programming related courses. NIIT and Aptech are the leaders. Without these private diplomas, India cannot have the manpower to serve the offshore I market. In 1986, all Indian colleges and universities were graduating computer science and engineering graduates at the rate of about 2,000 a year. The Indian software industry needs at least 50,000 a year. Ths US software industry was pulling in about 50,000 a year from India during 1994 to 2002 time frame. So all the pool of available engineering graduates has been pulled into software. Now, the bottom of the barrel is being scraped. Surprisingly, companies are finding that talent quite adequate too. -Arun