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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Tue Nov 11, 2014, 12:14 PM Nov 2014

Indian corruption leads to problems finding/educating experts.

Pilots.
One pilot landed her plane on the front-wheel at least 16 times and only when an investigation was launched it turned out that she had faked her certification. Up to 4000 licenses are in question.
http://ibnlive.in.com/news/fake-pilot-licence-racket-widens-two-arrested/148251-3.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Woman-pilot-faked-papers-for-licence-after-failing-test-7-times/articleshow/7583939.cms


Students.
Bribery is so rampant in the university-system in India that they even have specialized brokers for that. Rich kids regularly cheat on tests, protected by their parents' influence or the dagger they conveniently place on their desk during the exam. Professors write dissertations in exchange for money while publishing articles in bogus journals to inflate their number.
The situation has become so bad that poor students demand the right to cheat on tests, just like the rich kids do, because they can't afford the bribes.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29950843



What about companies looking for good employees?
India has the quantity, but the quality of its engineers and scientists is abysmal.
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1130404/jsp/opinion/story_16721261.jsp#.VGIzS8lPZEM
A while ago I read an article (can't find it) that indian companies prefer to hire liberal arts students and re-educate them from scratch into the engineers the company needs, rather than taking the risk with "real" engineers and scientists.
Of course, the official storyline is different. The universities and companies portray the liberal arts as making you such an imaginative and creative problem-solver that every company will want you.
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/iim-indore-procter-and-gamble-india-mba-shiv-nadar-hcl/1/211013.html

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