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Globalising education

Mr. Raj Kumar (May 23) is too kind to our sick academic environs, while rightly urging for global universities in India. It is a fact that privatisation has done grievous harm to academic standards, impartial administration, equal opportunities to the aspirants and affordable education. Private institutions are run by powerful vested interests out to make a fast buck and amass wealth in the long run. A minuscule minority imparts quality education, but it is ruinously expensive. Public universities revel in apathy, compromised standards and their libraries are in disarray.

We do need global universities. But the immediate task is to refurbish the existing public universities to extinguish the toadyism and to disable political interference. Private institutions which have mushroomed and are averse to transparency should be so reined in. Only the fittest should survive.

S. Soundararajan,

Chennai

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