India's Indian Institute of Technology, or IIT, is known for its cutting-edge research and for producing some of the world's top engineers.
It's also known for producing some of the world's worst students.
And now it's trying to do something about it, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The school is teaming up with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create what it's calling the "world's first truly global university."
The idea is to pair IIT's cutting-edge technology with the Gates Foundation's know-how in philanthropy.
The idea is to create what the Times of India calls the "world's first truly global university" with a focus on social impact.
The idea is to pair IIT's cutting-edge technology with the Gates Foundation's know-how in philanthropy.
The Times of India calls it the "world's first truly global university," and a post on the school's website calls it a "game-changing initiative."
The idea is to pair IIT's cutting-edge technology with the Gates Foundation's know-how in philanthropy.
The Times of India calls it a "game-changing initiative," and a post on the school's website calls it a
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Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.