{"id":2617,"date":"2003-01-18T14:59:30","date_gmt":"2003-01-18T09:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/18\/iits-turn-fifty\/"},"modified":"2003-01-18T14:59:30","modified_gmt":"2003-01-18T09:29:30","slug":"iits-turn-fifty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/iits-turn-fifty\/","title":{"rendered":"IITs turn fifty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>The encomium comes from CBS&#8217; highly-regarded 60 Minutes, the most widely watched news programme in the US, which in a rah-rah story last Sunday told its more than 10 million viewers that &#8220;IIT may be the most important university you&#8217;ve never heard of.&#8221;<\/font><\/cite>  (<a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/cms.dll\/html\/comp\/articleshow?artid=34701392\"class = \"source\">IITs better than US institutes, says CBS &#8211; The Times of India<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Uh.. OK. Hyperbole aside,  IITs are good, but they can be better. The high standards come from the rigorous selection procedure, and from the fact that the creme de la creme (ahem!) have fewer choices  than they&#8217;d have in the US. The last should change if the current efforts to upgrade RECs to IIT standard are taken seriously. <\/p>\n<p>And <i>then<\/i> the  comparison between the IITs and the Ivy league colleges in the US can be made on merits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The encomium comes from CBS&#8217; highly-regarded 60 Minutes, the most widely watched news programme in the US, which in a rah-rah story last Sunday told its more than 10 million viewers that &#8220;IIT may be the most important university you&#8217;ve never heard of.&#8221; (IITs better than US institutes, says CBS &#8211; The Times of India) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}