01-12-2004, 05:53 AM
Finally, the truth is out. It is not so much that they(the Tony Blairs of the world) are concerned about India's weapons of mass destruction, nor are they concerned that India is spending too much on defense (although that may also be true) , what they are really concerned is that India has invested heavily in higher education and is now reaping the rewards. IOW, India is spending too much on education and they the high tech industrialized world are running scared that they cannot compete against the pajama clad IIT Graduate
Get educated to fight India: Blair
LONDON: Tony Blair has controversially named the Indian threat to British jobs and economic growth as the main reason he is pushing ahead with fiercely resisted plans for English university funding reform, despite indications the proposals might finally and humiliatingly sink Blair and Blairism .
Though no one is calling it the backlash to Indian outsourcing just yet, Blair said the proposals were right for a Britain whose workforce was increasingly being challenged by highly-educated, high-growth India and China.
"Look at India, China and the United States. Look at India and China, the top countries in the world are already putting 50% of their people through university," Blair said early on Sunday, as he argued the two Asian giants would take away more UK service sector and manufacturing jobs if Britons remained poorly skilled and under-educated.
He said, "The only way we are going to survive is more and more people getting top quality education ... and you cannot do that unless you get a sustainable system of funding."
Blairâs government is controversially piloting plans through parliament for the UKâs under-funded universities to charge thousands of pounds a year from British undergraduates. He says it is his governmentâs "flagship" proposal because it is so "important for a country (faced with the Indian-Chinese giants)".
Get educated to fight India: Blair
LONDON: Tony Blair has controversially named the Indian threat to British jobs and economic growth as the main reason he is pushing ahead with fiercely resisted plans for English university funding reform, despite indications the proposals might finally and humiliatingly sink Blair and Blairism .
Though no one is calling it the backlash to Indian outsourcing just yet, Blair said the proposals were right for a Britain whose workforce was increasingly being challenged by highly-educated, high-growth India and China.
"Look at India, China and the United States. Look at India and China, the top countries in the world are already putting 50% of their people through university," Blair said early on Sunday, as he argued the two Asian giants would take away more UK service sector and manufacturing jobs if Britons remained poorly skilled and under-educated.
He said, "The only way we are going to survive is more and more people getting top quality education ... and you cannot do that unless you get a sustainable system of funding."
Blairâs government is controversially piloting plans through parliament for the UKâs under-funded universities to charge thousands of pounds a year from British undergraduates. He says it is his governmentâs "flagship" proposal because it is so "important for a country (faced with the Indian-Chinese giants)".