The hardware and the IT services markets have traditionally grown faster in India. Economic growth and globalization have made Indian companies adopt best practices and improve capabilities with their products and services to compete in a global market place. BPO, on the other hand, in the domestic market is still nascent but propensity towards adoption is higher.
The controversy surrounding the entrance exams to the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) refuses to die down. The latest has students expressing doubts about the results. Prometric has gone on record with a press release saying the results are correct and that the company is convinced and satisfied about having followed all international norms and standards. In all of this, the fact was ignored that there are other institutes such as BITS (Pilani) and Manipal Institute that have been conducting online entrance exams successfully for the last few years.
Globally education has received a lot of attention in the last decade. In 2000, it was estimated that all children in the world would have access to primary schooling by 2015. However latest updates show that it is highly unlikely that these promises will be met.
e-learning is a growing ITeS segment, and over the years, has caught onto the open source revolution in a significant way. There have been many community efforts to bring ‘Learning Management Systems’ (LMS), the industry’s prevalent learning technology, to the open source format.
