August 19, 2008
India Shores Up Standards in Weak Engineering Programs
Chennai, India
Some Indian and American academics and business leaders are trying to improve the rapidly expanding private engineering colleges here, many of which have shoddy standards and are tainted by bribery.
K. Kasthuri, dean of SSN College of Engineering, here in southern India, chuckles as he describes how parents used to offer him bribes in hopes of gaining admission for their children.
"They would say, 'Tell me the amount. Tell me whom to give it to,'" recalls Mr.
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