Despite this reality that
India is an emerging economy, there are many challenges in the field of quality
education, which is the main hindrance in her development. With the
liberalization, education sector was also opened to the private sector but it
also failed to import quality education. Especially when it comes to the
employable education, there is totally mismatch between the Indian
employability standards and education system. This is an issue of serious
concern.
On the one hand our political class is guided not by the quality education but by the vote bank consolidation, our private sector is guided by monetary considerations. For the sake of vote bank considerations, our political masters have created plethora of quotes, communal, caste, language, handicap, sports, gender, etc., similarly private or business masters try to create more and more management or donations based quotes. In both the cases quality has to be compromised or lowered resulting in very poor quality output.
This poor quality is affecting our nation’s growth and so far no innovative approach is being adopted to fill the vacuum and how the meritorious and talented minds are ignored. Due to the sub-standard enrollment, large numbers of students either drop out or are unsuccessful.
Speaking at a seminar, Rajshekharan Pillai, VC, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), said. “With the student drop-out ratio in India being as high as approximately seventy percent, it is important that skills are taught to a child in his primary years. Thus I feel that it is the duty of the education sector to link formal education with specialised skills, so that it makes a student employable…”
Similar views were also expressed by Narayan Murthy, Chairman, Infosys, who said around seventy-five percent of Indian graduates are unemployable. In its report World Bank said that around ninety percent of Indian graduates are unemployable.
So, there is a total mismatch between the standard and competitiveness on the one side and curriculum and admission system on the other. In this cauldron employability and merit are the causality.
There is a need to strike a balance between the standard of education and real world learning in order to make Indian students employable and ready by equipping them with the needs of workplace. We must educate the learners according to the requirements of job or employment rules. If education is imparted according to global standards, the jobs will start accommodating our students automatically.
Education sector is a collaborative sector, consists of administration, teachers, students etc. this sector is also responsible for providing employable workforce, thus teaching and learning should be inclusive of knowledge, skills and aptitude and it must be from off any other agenda and considerations. Any preferential student cannot survive in a competitive world. Today education extends beyond classrooms and campuses. Emphasis should be on quality education, not on quantity.
Right to Education (RTE), No Detention System or No Exam System, Inflating grades and marks, Continuous Evaluation System, Mid Day Meal, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, CBCS system etc., are also responsible for the poor standard of education.
Today Indian education and employable students can be compared with NCC (National Cadets Corps). NCC boasts about being the biggest youth organisation of the world, but over the years in India itself, it failed to fill all the vacancies in the Indian Military and other security services. Same is the situation with employment scenario. The nation can boast the highest number of educated youths in the world, but the shortage of employable educated youth. So, this policy of corruption and various weight-age for admissions and passing, our nation is falling considerably in the field of employable youths.
All the education experts in India have also shown lackadaisical interest and vague knowledge about academic and educational world of India. As government of India does nothing but does the mere token service for the education, similarly education experts also do the same formality. All talks and discuss the pitfalls about the scenario of Indian education in just few lines but do nothing. It is this tokenism which is spoiling the academic world of India.
All advocate the autonomy for educational institutions in general and IITs, IIMs in particular for revamping the academic standard. But here it would be in the fitness of discussion that in India, a large number of Indian colleges and universities and all the minority institutions have autonomous status by nature. But standard is again very poor and they also prepare unemployable students.
But what is the reality about those autonomous institutions; only corruption, donations, poor standard, nepotism and poor service conditions for teachers. In most of these autonomous colleges and universities academic standard is very poor.
Similarly, experts suggest “research" as second methodology to improve the academic standard. But large a number of universities in India are involved in research on a massive scale. Some research guide in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Meerut, etc., places have guided hundreds of research scholars, leading to Ph.D. degree. Similarly in Indian many phony scholars can be seen who have hundreds of research papers to their credit. So autonomy, research etc., are not related at all with the standard and employability.
It is the leadership and vote bank politics which have been spoiling the campus. Shri Kapil Sibal introduced a system where there is no examination and fails up to 11th standard. So we cannot expect a student doing excellent work at the IIT or higher level. Similarly, Late Arjun Singh etc., recognised madrasa and Church education. So we can understand the fate of that country where madrasa and church education are recognised.
If we want to see excellence in academic world we must first start honouring merit. Second government must recruit qualified and meritorious candidate as teachers on permanent basis. All the vacant positions must be filled without any delay. Government must separate research from educational institutions. For good research good specialized research institute must be opened in large number. Up-to under-graduate and post graduate level there should not be any research. Teachers and students must be involved only in teaching and studies. In such institutions teachers should not be allowed to do or guide research. Similarly there promotions should also not be linked with research etc., Much talked about "Point System" is also a very negative system for teachers' promotion. It will completely demoralise the classroom teaching system and spoil the institutional environment. Actually, at Under Graduate level and Post Graduate level, only exhaustive classroom teaching should be there for academic excellence. There should and be any stress in the mind of research scholar about employment.
If we want to improve upon this scenario, we need to strike a balance between the various weight-ages and the standard of education, to make the employable.
On the one hand our political class is guided not by the quality education but by the vote bank consolidation, our private sector is guided by monetary considerations. For the sake of vote bank considerations, our political masters have created plethora of quotes, communal, caste, language, handicap, sports, gender, etc., similarly private or business masters try to create more and more management or donations based quotes. In both the cases quality has to be compromised or lowered resulting in very poor quality output.
This poor quality is affecting our nation’s growth and so far no innovative approach is being adopted to fill the vacuum and how the meritorious and talented minds are ignored. Due to the sub-standard enrollment, large numbers of students either drop out or are unsuccessful.
Speaking at a seminar, Rajshekharan Pillai, VC, Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), said. “With the student drop-out ratio in India being as high as approximately seventy percent, it is important that skills are taught to a child in his primary years. Thus I feel that it is the duty of the education sector to link formal education with specialised skills, so that it makes a student employable…”
Similar views were also expressed by Narayan Murthy, Chairman, Infosys, who said around seventy-five percent of Indian graduates are unemployable. In its report World Bank said that around ninety percent of Indian graduates are unemployable.
So, there is a total mismatch between the standard and competitiveness on the one side and curriculum and admission system on the other. In this cauldron employability and merit are the causality.
There is a need to strike a balance between the standard of education and real world learning in order to make Indian students employable and ready by equipping them with the needs of workplace. We must educate the learners according to the requirements of job or employment rules. If education is imparted according to global standards, the jobs will start accommodating our students automatically.
Education sector is a collaborative sector, consists of administration, teachers, students etc. this sector is also responsible for providing employable workforce, thus teaching and learning should be inclusive of knowledge, skills and aptitude and it must be from off any other agenda and considerations. Any preferential student cannot survive in a competitive world. Today education extends beyond classrooms and campuses. Emphasis should be on quality education, not on quantity.
Right to Education (RTE), No Detention System or No Exam System, Inflating grades and marks, Continuous Evaluation System, Mid Day Meal, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, CBCS system etc., are also responsible for the poor standard of education.
Today Indian education and employable students can be compared with NCC (National Cadets Corps). NCC boasts about being the biggest youth organisation of the world, but over the years in India itself, it failed to fill all the vacancies in the Indian Military and other security services. Same is the situation with employment scenario. The nation can boast the highest number of educated youths in the world, but the shortage of employable educated youth. So, this policy of corruption and various weight-age for admissions and passing, our nation is falling considerably in the field of employable youths.
All the education experts in India have also shown lackadaisical interest and vague knowledge about academic and educational world of India. As government of India does nothing but does the mere token service for the education, similarly education experts also do the same formality. All talks and discuss the pitfalls about the scenario of Indian education in just few lines but do nothing. It is this tokenism which is spoiling the academic world of India.
All advocate the autonomy for educational institutions in general and IITs, IIMs in particular for revamping the academic standard. But here it would be in the fitness of discussion that in India, a large number of Indian colleges and universities and all the minority institutions have autonomous status by nature. But standard is again very poor and they also prepare unemployable students.
But what is the reality about those autonomous institutions; only corruption, donations, poor standard, nepotism and poor service conditions for teachers. In most of these autonomous colleges and universities academic standard is very poor.
Similarly, experts suggest “research" as second methodology to improve the academic standard. But large a number of universities in India are involved in research on a massive scale. Some research guide in Delhi, Ghaziabad, Meerut, etc., places have guided hundreds of research scholars, leading to Ph.D. degree. Similarly in Indian many phony scholars can be seen who have hundreds of research papers to their credit. So autonomy, research etc., are not related at all with the standard and employability.
It is the leadership and vote bank politics which have been spoiling the campus. Shri Kapil Sibal introduced a system where there is no examination and fails up to 11th standard. So we cannot expect a student doing excellent work at the IIT or higher level. Similarly, Late Arjun Singh etc., recognised madrasa and Church education. So we can understand the fate of that country where madrasa and church education are recognised.
If we want to see excellence in academic world we must first start honouring merit. Second government must recruit qualified and meritorious candidate as teachers on permanent basis. All the vacant positions must be filled without any delay. Government must separate research from educational institutions. For good research good specialized research institute must be opened in large number. Up-to under-graduate and post graduate level there should not be any research. Teachers and students must be involved only in teaching and studies. In such institutions teachers should not be allowed to do or guide research. Similarly there promotions should also not be linked with research etc., Much talked about "Point System" is also a very negative system for teachers' promotion. It will completely demoralise the classroom teaching system and spoil the institutional environment. Actually, at Under Graduate level and Post Graduate level, only exhaustive classroom teaching should be there for academic excellence. There should and be any stress in the mind of research scholar about employment.
If we want to improve upon this scenario, we need to strike a balance between the various weight-ages and the standard of education, to make the employable.
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