Give away priz(c)es of Higher education in Kerala
By D.Dhanuraj Kerala's recent history dealing with higher education (?) courses and colleges is not so praiseworthy. Everyone looks at the development with suspicion and no one wants to discuss and collectively learn from the experiences. While we have a history of revolutionizing school education which has helped us to attain 100 percent literacy, it seems that we lost track with the developments in higher education field. Everyone in Kerala was forced to believe for a quite long time that it is the responsibility of the Government to run education institutions of excellence. This was happening while private aided schools were serving the majority of population for many decades. At last, the Government took a decision to open up higher education to private players. Here, I am not going into the merits of the stated policies of the then Government on this regard. I want to explore the remedial measures to fix the problems that the higher education secto...