Education System in India

Education in India is good, particularly CBSE, whats lacking is proper staff, teachers to teach, no clear education system in State-based syllabi schools, lack of practical exposure in education and no proper moral support to students to excel in there area of interests!@!

On the whole, indian education system is good compared to even countries like US where the country has proposed new education laws to give importance to science and maths as subjects of importance to American students...
 
education system difficulty level goes on increasing as we enter into higher classes.we have different courses like MBA,BBI,BMS,BMMetc.
 
well...Enough has been written about education system of India but, there are some important made by us president Mr barak obama, that is , if us students dont start working hard in primary education indian and chinese student will sweep out all the worlds top most jobs....so 3 cheers to indians....
 
d system of mugging up sucks...
d system should make students become more innovative, think about things and nt become memory cards...
 
Education builds the man so it builds the nation. Today we claim to be the biggest human resources supplier for the world, but are we concerned what quality of human capital we are building and for whose needs? We supply bureaucrats to the government, software engineers to the IT companies around the world, highly paid managers to the multinationals, we supply engineers and science graduates as researchers to the foreign universities. What capital are we building for ourselves?

India aspires to be powerful, it wants to play a role in the international community, for that to happen, its economy has to grow multifold and for that to happen, it requires a huge force of entrepreneurs who could transform it into a nation which produces, from the one which only consumes. India needs a huge force of innovators who could make it self reliant in all kinds of sciences and technologies. India needs artists who could make its culture the most popular in the world. A culture which is not only saleable itself but also helps in selling India’s products across the world. In a nutshell, India needs Henry Fords, Bill Gateses, Thomas Alva Edisons and Michael Jacksons born and educated in India.

One may say we had few. Yes, we had. M. S. Swaminathan who made India self reliant in food grains, Dhiru Bhai Ambani who proved a common man can become a billionaire, Dr. Varghese Kurien who is the father of Amul milk movement, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam who dared to build missiles for India, Pundit Ravishankar who is the ambassador of the Indian music to the world. Such people though in small numbers, were always there. But they are not the products of this education system. This system did not teach them how to become innovators or entrepreneurs or artists. Had it done so, they would have been millions in numbers. These people were inspired themselves. To some of them, their education may have given the technical know-how (though it is hardly conceivable), but not the dream or the inspiration needed. It is the education which should inspire one to become something one really wants to. Education should make you free, should make you experiment and it should make you ask questions. Ultimately, it should make you realize what you are.

Youngsters in India, do not have the freedom of selecting there career, it is said. They are forced to become engineers, doctors, MBA’s and IAS officers, it is said. Yes, agree. But that is not the problem. The problem is, youngsters in India do not have the vision to think beyond. Neither their parents, nor their grandparents had that vision. This is where the root of the problem is. Generations have gone through a system which sucks. Now the beauty is even the law-makers and educators of today’s India are products of that age old system. That is why no less than a revolution is needed in the education system in India.

What do we expect from such a revolution?

A revolution means big changes. We expect the revolution in education to bring lots of changes. These changes will result into:

1. Best talents of the country working in the education sector.


Today, education is not the career of choice, but it is the career of compromise. If you are a teacher, people sympathize, they curse the prevalent unemployment in the country. Education is one of the highest profit making ‘industries’ in the service sector, but its workers are the least paid compared to those working in somewhat glamorous sectors like the IT industry. This has to change.

2. A world class infrastructure.

The experience of shopping at malls is better than the old dirty bazaars. The experience of traveling in a metro train is much better than suffering in the city buses. The experience of driving on four or six lane highways is much better the same way. The same way, infrastructure has a meaning in education. World class universities and schools with world class libraries, laboratories and classrooms, in a world class building make a world class infrastructure for education.

3. Greater investments into education, public as well as private.

We need world class infrastructure and best talents in all schools and universities of India. These resources should not remain limited to a handful of IIT’s or IIM’s. Each village should have a school with all resources and facilities. Each university should have whatever it needs for a better education. This would require huge money and hence, huge investments.


4. Education which encourages innovation and creativity.

When farmers in the villages of Punjab make a vehicle from the diesel engine and name it Maruta (A male version of Maruti), that is innovation. When villagers of the Rajasthan and Gujarat transform the Bike ‘Enfield Bullet’ into a local auto-rickshaw, that is creativity. How many automobile engineering students could do likewise? The question is, how many?


5. Education which encourages entrepreneurship.

In a Hindi movie ‘Nayak’, the father of the actress refuses to permit for her marriage with the actor because he is not a government servant. At last, he permits, but then the Actor had become the chief minister of the state. This mindset of the society, particularly of the middle class, has to be changed. You are not a respectful person if after education you start a business, as that is seen as a failure in getting a job. It is the task of the education system to change this mindset. It also has to inspire the youth for the necessary courage and vision for entrepreneurship.

6. An education which makes a child sad when the last bell is rung at the end of the day in the school.
 
-read Gandhi on basic education and
-know Dr. Abdulkalam(president) ’s views on Education.
-When profit (economical)enters in ed. then spirit of deeds dies.
 
New career choices and an openness towards them in the parents is a wellcome sign.

But this is only among a minor section of society. Again, the motive behind these careers is a merely a job. The technical educaional institute still can offer better results to the society if they understand that their job is education and research and not examinaion and distribution of degreees.
 
Guys, you are missing a few big points:

look at the Maharashtra Engg/Med admissions : they are an organised loot of students’ money with 50% seats beign allotted to management quota. The “donation” to get those seats is in the range of 3-12 lacs for Engg and 5-32 lacs for Med.

At least 25% of that goes to ministers and politicians.

Also, the syllabus is deliberately kept poor, vague and outdated. That is chiefly because the same profs who teach in colleges run classes/tuitions and if they are going to have to learn the latest technology, they wont be able to make that much money ’cause they dont know all the new stuff.

Also, they dont teach in college coz if they do, students wont come for their classes.

Also, ministers who otherwise jump to disinvest and gobble up a hefty commission from MNCs arent in a mood to outsource education to foreign univs coz *they* run colleges here which are hopelessly substandard and if they allow outside colleges to setup branches, their colleges will shut down in *months*.

Finally, although industry can invest, industry also knows the perils of messing around with the ministry. And look at it straight, the more the unemployment the better it is for companies – they need to pay far less since people will do anything for a basic income.

So, stop thinking about revolution and start thinking about corruption.

So, “desh gaya bhaad mein – apni dekh aur maja kar”

god help this country!
 
The Situation : piles of books, parental pressure, peer pressure.
Task : Complete 25 chapters per subject by the end of the year for the final examinations.
Memorize! Memorize! That’s the key word.

Believe it or not, the Indian educational system tests your memory-skills rather than the ‘application of concepts’ in real-life situation. It concentrates too much on the theroetical aspects of topics, rather than focussing on the practical knowledge. All a student needs to do to top his class is:
1- Read and re-read
2- Memorize the text (which gets too much for the brain)
3- Vomit it all out on the day of the examination

And if you happen to have great mugging-skills, BINGO! You are in the top 5 list of the most “intelligent” students of the class. Is that right ?? That is what has been happening in India since decades, but is it serving the purpose? That is the question.

The purpose of education is to develop the young minds into beautiful brains. But is that purpose being achieved by judging the intellectual capability of students by taking yearly examinations? Do we need periodic-assessment or the grading system in India?
 
Everything in India took a deep dive in the last two decades. The effect of this dive in education will be felt in the next decade or so. There appears to be some awakening of late and may be if this trend continues India will come out of the gutters it is presently in. The contribution that has been made and that which continues is the effect of the education system of the past. Individual excellence is still possible and with our vast population quality contribution will still be there. The selfish, perverted, power hungry has always played a major role in India, be it the husband with the dowry stick, or the zamindar or the goonda. It is just that these perverted souls have entered the powerful lobby of politicians. When we are yet to completely erase the dowry hazard, what hopes do we have of eradicating these from the governing lobby.
 
Thoughts on improving the education system
The Indian Education system is in great trouble. These are some of the faults I find in the current education system.
Several children do not even get a basic elementary education.

The rich and upper middle class in cities find decent quality private schools to send their children to. Even in these schools, getting a pass in the exams is the priority, not learning. Even these schools fail in teaching various arts, and in particular common sense to children.

Both the private and government schools in smaller towns and villages are uniformly pathetic.

Even if a student graduates from a higher secondary school, there are not enough colleges. The only hope left to most high school graduates is correspondence education. It is not clear to me whether one can be motivated enough to study through the correspondence course material sitting at home.

Even if one graduates from college, the graduates are mostly unemployable, because of poor quality course material and teaching in the colleges. I have myself seen a number of such people while interviewing them for various posts in my organization.

Despite all this, several thousand young men and women have been leading our nation forward. On just about all counts of economic indicators including the foreign exchange reserves, "India is Shining". Just imagine where we can be if only we resolved our education related problems?

Here are some of my (not so complete) ideas:
Compulsory free education should be made available till Class XII

The state and central governments should completely absorb the cost of providing free education till 12th standard to every child, irrespective of caste, religion and economic status. This should cover not just school fees, but also free books, food if necessary, uniform clothing and even a place to stay if the parents cannot afford that to their children. Those with money can always opt for their favourite private school, and feed their own children. Alternately, some rich may decide to send their children to the govt. schools.

Govt. schools should be run by private entities/entrepreneurs.

It is very doubtful if the government can manage hiring qualified teachers and provide quality education to children. Like in the USA, the government can opt for building the schools and make them available to private companies on a long-term lease, based on auction. The organization that comes up with the lowest bid and agrees to maintain the best quality education would be chosen to run each school in each locality.

We need to introduce a concept of 'education credit'. It is an amount equal to the average cost incurred in teaching a child in the privately run Govt. schools. This education credit is made available to every child. The child can either avail of the education by exchanging this credit in the Govt. owned and private operated school, or cash this portion against the fees and other costs incurred by them in a completely private school. This way, the tax payer does not have to feel miffed that his her money is used only to train OTHER children. Panchayat and municipalities must own and manage the school premises and oversee the operation of the private entities running the school.

All education above higher secondary school level should be primarily dealt with by private entities.

If some state governments wish, they can run colleges, but it should be unnecessary. Students should be offered lenient education loans at very low interest rates.These loans are liable to be paid only after the students finish their education and find a job of their own.

That is, free education until higher secondary; but paid-for education after that. Those who can't afford to pay for this higher education get low-cost and lenient loans. This kind of comfortable educational loans are made available to students in USA.

Alternate education must be promoted

It appears to me that there is no need to teach anyone for more than 3 hours a day till the secondary school. Therefore, the available education infrastructure can be used more effectively through the shift system. Three normal shifts can be run between 0700-1000, 1100-1400 and 1500-1800 hours. An hour gap in between for the children to leave the school and the next set to walk in. In the late nights - from 1900-2200, the facility can be used to provide education to old and unlettered. Facilities such as the building, furniture, library, computer centre, laboratories and play fields can be used very efficiently in this
manner.

Further, individual teachers wanting to run their own curriculum can be entertained to use the nearby school facilities including the building, furniture, library, computer centre and laboratories. Like the 'Gurukula' method, a single teacher can lead a group of about 20 children from 1st to 12th standard. The students can write their 10th and 12th standard examination under the National Institute of Open Schooling. Nothing stops those who graduate through this system from joining the available colleges. Through the 'education credit', each student can pay his teacher. This helps the teacher earn a reasonable income and the student is also guaranteed quality infrastructure.

College education through correspondence system to be increased

In each town, "Tutorial" colleges (as they are called in Chennai) can be set up by individuals who enroll their students in a correspondence course run by authorised universities. [This is applicable only to non-professional courses.] The day-to-day training is provided by these Tutorial colleges. The timings can be flexible, allowing for the students to also find a part-time work during the day.

Impediments in the way of setting up for-profit private colleges to be removed

Today, only a charitable trust can set up educational institutions. Therefore, honest entrepreneurs interested in making profits will not get involved in spending their time and setting up quality educational institutions. The result is that only criminals who plunder money illegally in the name of "charitable trusts" get involved in providing education, and make money through capitation fees. To stop this, the government should allow for for-profit companies to set up educational institutions.

This move will result in considerable capital flowing into the education sector. These colleges so set up will still come under the purview of the education ministries around the country, and so the government can still regulate the fees charges for providing the education. This is akin to regulating the distribution of power in Mumbai and Delhi. The government regulator only decides the upper limit cost per unit of power. Similar regulation now exists in telecom. Therefore it is perfectly possible to bring about the same in education as well.

I do not claim that these suggestions, if implemented, will remove all problems we have in our education sector. However I am hopeful that they can alleviate the problem considerably.
 
Make all elected officials and all govt employees to send there childeren to the Govt schools. Imagine the Zill parishat Chairman and Dictrict collector send their children to the govt scholl. The Quality of Education will improve.
regards
 
Present eduation system is very bad compare to other countries. now the education field has become a profit motive business in all state in india and no one take care on the welfare of childrens who are really the future citizen of india. we should take some neccessary steps to create a new education trend to the present shinning india
 
recently there are a number of parties emerging newly in each corner of the country. there should be some educational techniques or stragites should emergy to solve the problems of our childrens who are facing a lot of problems now . there should be a change in the present education systems include various subjects that really help the students useful in their future life. Communicative based syllabus should be introduce as our students are lack in the communication in english. As English is common man's language now like the mobile phones became the toys of the common man in the todays world. consider this in the mind let us bring out some solutions to those problems
 
the present educational system in india is all about money. the distance between the students learning in the public schools and the private schools are increasing day by day. the greatest problem which a learner in a govt school faces is the lack of motivation. in my opinion we should introduce innovative techniques to improve the situation.
 
1. Compulsory free education should be made available till Class XII
I am not sure if this is feasible, because the state coffers lack the funding to take on such initiatives. City muncipalities would have to start taxing the residents to generate funds and there lies the problem - Hardly any one pays taxes in India. Same problem for vouchers as well. Cities with low per capita income will have low funding and there will be a gap in the quality of education between the rich and poor cities. In my opinion the state government should pump in more money for improving the educational system and hold the schools accountable for maintaining certain standards and continue to offer education at subsidized rates.

2. Govt. schools should be run by private entities/entrepreneurs

In theory I would agree with this idea, but again there lot of challenges. Leave it up to the government, the schools will be operated by kiths and kins of the local politicians. Even otherwiese, given the reputation of the government schools and authorities, who will be willing to take on such endeavours? What is the incentive? The political system has to be revamped from top down before we can make this a viable option. My suggestion is to make the local residents vote to elect the school authorities. That way, the local residents and responsible citizens will have an incentive to participate and imprve their local educational system. Accountability will also be enforced by the local residents.

3. All education above higher secondary school level should be primarily dealt with by private entities
I completely disagree with this. Some of our best educational institutions in India are goverment run institutions. What should happen is that the state governments should focus on improving the quality of education in these fine institutions and build closer relatiosnhips with industries and promote their schools to obtain charitable endowments.

5. College education through correspondence system to be increased.
In my opinion, distance learing should only be promoted for students in remote areas who do not have access to colleges or infrastructure. Education is not just about obtaining paper degrees. Education is about creating awareness, teach social and moral values, exposure to realities about life and motivating students to acheive more in life and live with a purpose. Correspondence education cannot acheive this.

6. Impediments in the way of setting up for-profit private colleges to be removed.

This is another tricky situation. Establishing institutions by for profit organizations will cause the cost of education to skyrocket. Of course, this will promote some level of competition between the schools which might encourage the school owners to improve quality. But this is a delicate situation and the pros and cons have to be weighed carefully.

I accidentally bumped in to this site and I am glad that there is so much discussion about improving the educational system in India. I think that superior educational system is key to the fiture success of India.
 
Education Reforms

Our current institutions are in desperate needs to funding, to improve everything from building to quality of education. The idea of Continuing education is an urgent need today. In fact this can serve as potential revenue for current institutes, as employers can sponsor them. In addition, what we need is complete revamp of our High Education system.


Education should get 7-10% of GDP. Money should go for only primary education and not for secondary and higher engineering college/university, ( IITs and IIMs can easily collect money from sources other then govt.) )Put right Spirited educational reforms.

One of the reason IIT and IIM has reached such great Quality is b'cause they are autonomus. no government control except government gives just money. The admission criteria, course material, examination board to follow, fees, age limit are left for autonomus institution to decide. Lets replicate this success throughout India by giving complete autonomy to primary, secondary, higher, engineering, medical colleges/universities. They will become profit making, self governing, autonomus institutions. No UGC like government body to interfere on schoolbooks or fees by politicians. No more astronomy classes for IIM students at lower fees.

Monopoly that the state sector has in providing school/college education should be opened up to all providers, public and profit making private firms. We have huge demand to educate 300 million people and curremt supply is for less then for 30 million people. Only private, public-private participation can help fill the gap.

Also, we must thank our private tuition classes and individual tutor for providing such a quality of service and generating employment. Without NIIT, Kelkar and other private classes we would not have created the talent, we have now. This institutions have compensated for the poor quality of our state education system. Allow this classes to become college/university to foster competition. Existing colleges can affiliate for distance learning class at this private class with revenue sharing agreement.

All government institutes should be converted to Semi - Private institutes, basically government should not interfere in how much is the fees, what is salaries of professors, what courses can be offered, How many students can be admitted etc... Increase in fees may be regulated to some extent, but should be encouraged to sustain same quality of education. Allow fair Competition and let (market/indian people) decide the fees they are willing to pay. Do not interfere with fees of Education. If we are concerned for Poor People then give them vouchers

The education minister should recommend that “market clearing” fees be charged at all levels of education, and students made to pay on the basis of a “means” test. And students should be allowed to enter a school or college of their choice (via modern voucher systems).

Only poor families should get advantage of government aid, in comparison to current situation where everyone pays low fees. May be low interest loans for some sections make sense.

But what about the poor student? The money earned by charging fees from the rich should go towards a two-tier voucher system for the poor — scholarship for the fees and living expenses. Finally, for girl students, at all levels, the scholarship to be higher.

Forex Reserve of $10Billion for Only primary education and school infrastucture. Not on secondary or higher education. Government should only check autonomy in this autonomus institution. Keep standard guidelines for them to follow and create cometition among them.

Government must make good quality roads to connect schools/colleges to city/villages. School will automatically get developed by Indians, private partnership.

All institutions should be rated for quality of education, Regulating body should put reforms in firm terms with institutions with inferior quality. This way people get information about quality standard of educational institution.

If you are out of job or fired, you are eligible for panchayat level education training program in your field of expertise (the one mentioned as one of the task of panchayat)

Progressively remove reservations based on caste system and put more emphasis on economic conditions of applicant's family to help poorest of the poor.

Allow Private University to enter Indian Market with no pre-restriction. If Stanford, MIT, NJIT like university wants to teach Indian people let them do so. Diversity in Education is good, it fosters creativity of different minds. Remember, we have to teach a billion people and re-train them with advanced skills. Currently, Demand is huge, Supply is Low. 52% of Indian Population is below age 24.


Allow existing Colleges to become University. if they have money let them start teaching quality material of there own to any age group.
Syllabi of all education branches needs to be updated. Basic computer education should become universal.

Autonomus Education institute can provide continuing education and make profit too. employers can easily sponsor such program. Major emphasis should be made on Leadership education, Motivational education, personnal development, public speaking - all this are need of the hour for shining India.

Allow Industry Funding to existing University so that they can do research and development which is not even there currently.

Citizens should be encouraged to save for their children's Higher education from the beginning, if required may be by some Tax incentives.

During Admission take Income-Tax record of the student's family and not only the bona fide certificate(place of birth).
For Unemployed people, give vouchers to retrain them in educational institution of the area of their choice.

Only by above mentioned reforms we will be able to produce not only 2,000 IIT Graduates a year, but 20 Lakh quality graduates in all areas for e.g. Urban management, Public Service, Management, Journalism, Film Production, etc...

In Past IT, Bollywood, Cricket has made us proud. Now our telecom and highways are making us proud. Let us our eduation system make us proud in future. Education in India
 
Education builds the man so it builds the nation. Today we claim to be the biggest human resources supplier for the world, but are we concerned what quality of human capital we are building and for whose needs? We supply bureaucrats to the government, software engineers to the IT companies around the world, highly paid managers to the multinationals, we supply engineers and science graduates as researchers to the foreign universities. What capital are we building for ourselves?

India aspires to be powerful, it wants to play a role in the international community, for that to happen, its economy has to grow multifold and for that to happen, it requires a huge force of entrepreneurs who could transform it into a nation which produces, from the one which only consumes. India needs a huge force of innovators who could make it self reliant in all kinds of sciences and technologies. India needs artists who could make its culture the most popular in the world. A culture which is not only saleable itself but also helps in selling India’s products across the world. In a nutshell, India needs Henry Fords, Bill Gateses, Thomas Alva Edisons and Michael Jacksons born and educated in India.

One may say we had few. Yes, we had. M. S. Swaminathan who made India self reliant in food grains, Dhiru Bhai Ambani who proved a common man can become a billionaire, Dr. Varghese Kurien who is the father of Amul milk movement, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam who dared to build missiles for India, Pundit Ravishankar who is the ambassador of the Indian music to the world. Such people though in small numbers, were always there. But they are not the products of this education system. This system did not teach them how to become innovators or entrepreneurs or artists. Had it done so, they would have been millions in numbers. These people were inspired themselves. To some of them, their education may have given the technical know-how (though it is hardly conceivable), but not the dream or the inspiration needed. It is the education which should inspire one to become something one really wants to. Education should make you free, should make you experiment and it should make you ask questions. Ultimately, it should make you realize what you are.

Youngsters in India, do not have the freedom of selecting there career, it is said. They are forced to become engineers, doctors, MBA’s and IAS officers, it is said. Yes, agree. But that is not the problem. The problem is, youngsters in India do not have the vision to think beyond. Neither their parents, nor their grandparents had that vision. This is where the root of the problem is. Generations have gone through a system which sucks. Now the beauty is even the law-makers and educators of today’s India are products of that age old system. That is why no less than a revolution is needed in the education system in India.

What do we expect from such a revolution?

A revolution means big changes. We expect the revolution in education to bring lots of changes. These changes will result into:

1. Best talents of the country working in the education sector.


Today, education is not the career of choice, but it is the career of compromise. If you are a teacher, people sympathize, they curse the prevalent unemployment in the country. Education is one of the highest profit making ‘industries’ in the service sector, but its workers are the least paid compared to those working in somewhat glamorous sectors like the IT industry. This has to change.

2. A world class infrastructure.

The experience of shopping at malls is better than the old dirty bazaars. The experience of traveling in a metro train is much better than suffering in the city buses. The experience of driving on four or six lane highways is much better the same way. The same way, infrastructure has a meaning in education. World class universities and schools with world class libraries, laboratories and classrooms, in a world class building make a world class infrastructure for education.

3. Greater investments into education, public as well as private.

We need world class infrastructure and best talents in all schools and universities of India. These resources should not remain limited to a handful of IIT’s or IIM’s. Each village should have a school with all resources and facilities. Each university should have whatever it needs for a better education. This would require huge money and hence, huge investments.


4. Education which encourages innovation and creativity.

When farmers in the villages of Punjab make a vehicle from the diesel engine and name it Maruta (A male version of Maruti), that is innovation. When villagers of the Rajasthan and Gujarat transform the Bike ‘Enfield Bullet’ into a local auto-rickshaw, that is creativity. How many automobile engineering students could do likewise? The question is, how many?


5. Education which encourages entrepreneurship.

In a Hindi movie ‘Nayak’, the father of the actress refuses to permit for her marriage with the actor because he is not a government servant. At last, he permits, but then the Actor had become the chief minister of the state. This mindset of the society, particularly of the middle class, has to be changed. You are not a respectful person if after education you start a business, as that is seen as a failure in getting a job. It is the task of the education system to change this mindset. It also has to inspire the youth for the necessary courage and vision for entrepreneurship.

6. An education which makes a child sad when the last bell is rung at the end of the day in the school.
 
basically the education system of our country is a copy of british education system and we followed blindly this system without looking in to our actual requirements and potential . very few people had given good suggestion and half hearted approach of policy makers has spoiled every thing.education system stressing more on securing good marks in exams will not help in the blossiming of original and practical thinking in the students rather it will orient the students mind in only one direction i e exam
 
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