Newly appointed Minister of State for Human Resources Development on Friday lamented that the quality of higher education in the country was extremely uneven. He felt that a stronger emphasis on specialised training could be one of the solutions. Speaking at the 2nd Convocation of the Max Institute of Medical Excellece (MIME) said ‘Our biggest asset is brain. But those minds need to be shaped they need to be nurtured and they need to be trained. When it comes to higher education the quality is extremely uneven. On the one hand we have world-class institutes like IIT and IIM’ he
