The All India Council for Technical Education has egg on its face. The news is that “several senior people from the AICTE have been arrested and a case has also been registered against the Chairman.” The charge: Bribery. (Thanks to Chandra.)
The news report, under the by-line of Bibek Debroy, says it is rumoured that the present chairman of AICTE paid money to get his job.
The rot runs deep.
The AICTE is responsible for granting “recognition” to management and engineering colleges etc. It is for this official stamp of approval that bribes are demanded and paid. However, one institute did not pay up. It leveled charges instead. An investigative committee was therefore set up – but its report was buried. These files were opened by the new minister. Hence all the arrests.
Just a fortnight ago, this blog had called for “liberty for the edupreneur.” In that post, we had questioned the need for an “independent rating agency” for educational institutions – that is, if such an agency was part of The State. Liberty for the edupreneur means liberty from the educrat.
The critical point worth noting is that the educrats are not in the knowledge business; they are into State Power.
The only real solution is to get this The State out of education. The present scenario is a product of our collective error in viewing our The State as a fount of knowledge. In reality, all its efforts in this area are directed towards spreading socialist propaganda while keeping truth out of the curriculum. Indeed, just the other day, a professor told me that his university functioned as an “ideological apparatus of The State.”
We Don’t Need This Education.
We Don’t Need Thought Control.
We Don’t Need Bribery And Corruption.
Leave those kids alone!
And let all edupreneurs free.
Now I know how my college could get the accredition.
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