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Institute of Engineering: Repeated Questions, National Politics, and Breaking free

Universities that offer higher education are a country's core strength as they produce motivated students and connect them directly to the emerging industries throughout the nation, significantly impacting national development. MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), for instance, has produced 100 Nobel Prize laureates. IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) in our neighboring country India, on the other hand, have produced CEOs like Sundar Pichai and Arvind Krishna and founders of successful companies like Flipkart, Ola and MakeMyTrip. However, IOE (Institute of Engineering), as a technical institution producing engineers, even after 93 years of its establishment, fails to meet the national and global requirements in more than a few fronts. The vicious cycle of ignorance: how repeated questions keep us trapped A direct consequence of repeated questions is that anything not asked in semester examination is deemed useless as they do not offer any marks. This reduces the need for ...