Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Live From Classroom

I am here, sitting in ebs classroom in real estate investment lecture and enjoying wi-fi.

The major difference as compared to Indian classroom is that students are allowed to enter class at any time, leave at any time, cell phones ring in class, people drink Coke, eat food, use wi-fi and chit-chat in class. The Professor is not bugged by all this stuff, in fact he is at his humorous best. Also, there is no attendance policy.

And in IIML: Class doors close at exact start time, mobiles need to be on silent, forget eating food or using lappie in the classroom. Attendance below 80% and lose your grades.

My guess is that, this is a result of difference in pay structures. In Germany, professors are extremely well paid, and in India, well we know the scintillating payments that Profs get!
As Indian Profs are not well paid, they need to show their anger on someone, and the simplest target is the students, and hence we see a lot of ludicrous rules.
As German professors get paid well, they are not frustrated and hence don't pain the students.

4 comments:

profootball25 said...

Hehe .. sale .. padhai karne gaya hai ki blog ke hits badhane :P ...
German chickies pe pics to daal

u can use ur mobile phone naa ...
Take some pics in class ;)

IIM ka Sarkari Babu said...

dude.. have fun man.. and ya, agreed with the above commect.. uch ladki ka foto-shoto to daal de yaar....

MavericK said...

Waah! Kya logic hai. I hope its the same in France too :D

Subodh said...

I used to think that only US B-Schools are like that. Europeans are particular about Formality. I guess I was wrong.

Regarding pay structure, the logic does not hold much water. Even in US B-School Profs are certianly not as well paid as the passing out Grads, but they too do not have co many rules. It has more to do with Indian mindset and Incoming Crowd.

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