HisMom wrote:
And, in any case, I strongly suggest that you focus on fixing your own roof first, and stop trying to tell me about the "situation" in India.
Australia used to be (I can remember) a pretty intolerant place back in the 1970s as it emerged from the white Australia policy whne non-whites weren't even allowed in the country and aborigines were kept in camps and kids sent to mission schools. There are still pockets of the old guard but by in large we (nowadays) are a tolerant lot...
HisMom wrote:
And since you insinuate that current India-educated Indians are somehow beholden to "Western" Universities, please tell me why alums from a "high quality Australian University" are rarely (if ever) at the helm of affairs in medicine, law, education, and research in America or the UK or in other parts of the first world ? And if Australia has only produced 15 Nobel Prize winners since the inception of the award, then that is not a very convincing endorsement of the "quality" of "first rate Australian Universities" (unless the problem is with the (lack of) lobbying prowess of Australian Universities to convince the committee to nominate more of their alums for the Prize).
Quality is also measured by international research publications and winning international grants, both criteria Australia does relatively well based on per capita performance...add the thousands of international students tripping over themselves to study here (paying commercial rates) and it's a no-brainer that our universities are considered world class....in addition to high quality education we are also quite innovative as we are ranked 9th in the world in industrial design registrations ahead of the UK
04 Dec 2015, 12:46 am
