OPINION: Preparation for life.

from BUSINESS LINE, July 23, 2008 Education is not preparation for an examination but for life. Normally, an academic institution, defined as a self-governing community of scholars, is preoccupied with its own internal processes - admissions, teaching, examinations - and rarely keeps in touch with what is going on in the outside world. But in the last decade and a half, the world outside has undergone a sea-change and has become 'turbulent'.

The transition shock The sudden transition from a protected, theoretically-oriented, spoon-fed environment to the harsh real world of constant change and cut-throat competition is likely to be a shock and unmanageable for …