KHARAGPUR - Indian-American educator Pradeep Khosla on Aug 18 expressed concern over the dearth of qualified teachers to teach at the proposed Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Answering questions from students at the IIT here during the institute’s 63rd Foundation Day, Khosla stressed the need for recruiting quality faculty in the new IITs. “Ideally the expansion of IITs is not a bad idea if you could staff...
all the IITs with the faculty of the right calibre. But if you just expand IITs for the sake of expansion without faculty of the right calibre, then you are just harming the students,” Khosla said when asked by a student on whether setting up more IITs is a good or bad idea. An alumnus of the institute’s 1980 batch, Khosla is chancellor of University of California - San Diego. The scientist also said Indian students need to develop their problem solving skills. (IANS)
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