Gross Enrolment Ratio in Tertiary Education = no of people of age 18-23 years enrolled in college vs total number of people in that age group
Eligibility Enrolment Ratio = no of people who of age 18-23 years enrolled in college vs total number of people in that age group /1
who have completed higher secondary school.
India: GER = 27%, EER = 65%
TN: GER=47%, EER ~ 80% (data not available)
This means 80% of people who finish +2 enrol themselves in college.
+2 pass percentages are 90% +
76% of colleges are private unaided. What does this mean? /2
The higher education industry has hit saturation. This is why among the highest ad spends come from educational institutions. Major Private Universities are expanding to other states. Engineering Colleges are closing PG classes and rationalizing departments and changing to /3
Arts and Science courses. TN also has the highest rate of education loan defaults in India. There are two ways out
- Build out capacity in post graduation in existing disciplines
- Open up a new market
The first approach is bound to fail, since students would rather take out /4
a 25 lakh loan to study abroad with an opportunity to find employment abroad than spend 5 lakhs on another 2 years with limited marginal utility.
This is where medicine comes in. That MBBS degree does not guarantee high enough earnings, so an MD/MS is usually unavoidable /5
This creates something of a captive market for 7 years with the opportunity of a couple of years' cheap employment in a teaching hospital as a trainee doctor in between.
This is being captured by countries such as China, Phillipines, Kyrgyzstan, Poland and Russia. /6
4000 students go abroad for studying medicine each year. This is a Rs 2000-2500 crore per year opportunity.
How does NEET screw this up?
Earlier, private colleges had management quota seats where eligibility tests were administered exclusively. Standardized tests with publicly /7
shared scores will eventually hit them. Next, NEET is just the beginning, Union MHRD will end up introducing standardized tests for all tertiary education. This introduces unpredictability and inability to generate revenue out of this. Private Univs will have to compete on /8
cost. Race to the bottom of profitability assured.
Closing thread. These in just my hypothesis. Do think it over for yourself and get back to me if you have a consistent counter-hypothesis. Don't engage in low-intensity, high-noise activity on this thread, please. /END
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In Tamil movies, perversion around Brahmin women is an old phenomenon. It doesn't matter if people born into the community are involved.
- K Balachander movie Arangetram - orthodox Shastri's daughter becomes a prostitute due to poverty
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- KB again in Apoorva Ragangal - older divorced Brahmin woman starts an affair with much younger man, while her daughter runs away and has an affair with the father
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- Sila Nerangalil Sila Manithargal - Brahmin college girl is raped. She leaves the house, finds her rapist and becomes friends with him.
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Like Fatima Sheikh, here's a list of incidents that fail the 'smell test' 1. Breast Tax 2. Carrying brooms on the back 3. Agitation for blouses 4. Vavar 5. Women forced into sati 6. EVR's trip to Kashi 7. Throwing muck at Savitribai
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Some easily falsified stories 1. Rajaji closed 300 schools 2. Sanskrit was required to get into medical school 3. Palani had non-Brahmin priests whe were replaced by Dalavai Ramappa Iyer 4. Dr Natesa Mudaliar built a hostel for NB boys since they couldn't rent in Madras
More easily falsified stories 5. Collector Ashe was assassinated because he took a woman in labour through the agraharam
While humans may have been consuming spirits for a very long time, it appears large scale consumption is a relatively recent phenomenon. Historically, people in colder climates have only consumed beers, ale, mead in quantity. Even these were not fortified and rarely
exceeded 3% w/v. Production of spirits was not possible in large scale and hence spirits were expensive and rarely consumed. Historical records show that 18th CE was when spirits consumption picked up. In frontier regions like America, spirit consumption was very high, but low
among rural populations. In Thomas Hardy's Far From The Madding Crowd, the only character that consumed spirits was the brandy-swilling city-slicker Sgt Troy.
Trends in consumption of animal flesh in the United States over the last century. Red meat is preferred by older people. Now, ask yourself the question - Why beef politics in India?
Trends in alcohol consumption in the US. From a peak of 70% in the late 70s, consumption is declining and plateauing. The decline is more in younger age groups, which point to a shrinking market. Europe is a declining market, having maxed out (10% of adults are daily drinkers)
and also due to their shrinking populations. Same is the case with Japan, China and Korea. So, which country is home to a large, growing population and where younger people are more likely to drink? Now, watch what all State Govts in India are doing.
From Robert Conquest's The Harvest of Sorrow, probably the most comprehensive chronicle of the horror that Stalinist economic policy was.
How the term 'kulak' was conjured up as an exploiter and target of hate, with little basis in reality. It holds lessons for all of us
- How the 'Aryan' as a class was invented in 20th CE India is similar
- Same technique is used by assorted groups claiming subaltern situation and create a target of hate.
What this resulted in was that the most productive 5-6% of the peasantry, which produced 20% of the grain was hounded, dispossessed of their land and herded off to collectives and labour camps. Forced collectivization and forced grain acquisition resulted in large scale hunger.