SRCC's 100% cut-off questions education standards: India Inc
NEW DELHI | MUMBAI: The human resource development minister has decried it as irrational . It's unfair on students, but don't blame the college - instead blame the education system and the inability to create capacity to absorb top class students. That's the reaction of honchos from India Inc to Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) demanding a perfect score from noncommerce students keen to graduate from the institution with a commerce degree. As per Delhi University's first list, the cut-off for admission to SRCC for noncommerce students is an outlandish 100%. At a few other colleges, the cut-off is 5-10 % higher than a year ago. Doubtless the cut-offs will decline in subsequent lists but, Mr Minister, there is certainly a problem. "It is a wake-up call to the education system," says Sanjeev Sanyal, an economist with a foreign bank who graduated from SRCC in 1992. "There is a huge demand for tertiary education in India. It is not a college-specific issue ...