Is the rise in IIM or IIT batch size taking a toll on teaching quality?

The fact remains that not only the students who have passed out from IIT or IIM, but no body wants to come back to the campus and teach. The reason. Poor pay. What else? When asked why, most of them try to convince that they do not have the knack to teach. Teaching is an art. And lots of other very convinicng stuff.

As far as b-schools in India are concerned, the majority of industry returned people who teach full-time here were a failure in the corporate. Hence they decide to teach as a better alternative. Or they join after retirement or taking a VRS. The reason why they are here also is similar. Why will a successful person in the industry leave his or her job in India and want to teach in the 30-s and 40-s or even 50-s?  

This is very unlike the US or Europe where there is a 2-way flow from industry-campus-industry. Hence the salaries in the campus have never been a permanent roadblock to attract the best from the industry. And once you are branded a teacher in India after leaving the industry you had it. You would be unwelcome back. So at the most you will see the successful people in the industry who have an inclination to teach prefer a subject mostly on weekends to keep in touch with academia.

Unless the salaries are brought at par with the industry why will a IIT/ IIM/good b-school topper stay back at the campus to teach? The VIth Pay Commission is not an answer to this.

 

I am happy to find so many success stories of Indian managers, both men and women, working in India and abroad. But not one who taught and became famous here.