The real issue is - everyone today wants to be superrich in a very short time. This is the influence of the USA on the entire globe. So now people know that if they have to become superrich then they cannot become engineers and reach there. There was a time when education had value and educated people were respected in the society just because they were educated. Today only the superrich are shining everywhere and all are after quick money. Obviously education has taken a backseat. Lots of private engineering schools have come up in the recent years and their promoters were only interested in making money out of it and not in giving education. Money controlled everything. Earlier a person living in a place would not know what is happening in the village next to his village but today everyone knows, thanks to TV and internet, the lifestyle of the superrich. Where is the respect for the worker today ? Where is the respect for the educated today ? Only the rich are respected. What is the maximum salary an IITan can get today? Is it sufficient to live in a good locality in a city ? No way. So why would someone learn engineering with interest?
May I know how many times in his life has NRN interacted with students of IITs on technical issues. Infosys doesnt recruit IIT students in good number, and Infosys was never a dream comopany for students of IIT.
Infosys recruits enmass from so called tier 3 or tier 4 institutes and knows how to get work from them. They will never learn how to handle students from IITs.
SO please dont give too much of significance to NRNs words.
My observations: 1. Half way through this article, the content changed from projecting that everything is wrong, to promoting some private companies. 2. With govt invitations being extended to foreign educators to set up shop in India,the private sector now sees this field as the next big money spinner. 3. In the long run, we will loose out further, because of what we saw happened to the healthcare sector. There too, instead of strengthening the existing infrastructure of govt hospitals by hiring more doctors and nurses, paying them better, and installing modern medical equipment, indirectly they allowed private players like the Appollos, the Wockhardts, etc, to mushroom all over the country, making quality healthcare go completely beyond the affordability of the common man. Now it is the turn of the education sector.
It is not the duty of any university or institute to train students for employment; their duty is to inject highest possible knowledge into them. Indian non-profit universities are doing that fine in most cases, the only negative factor is that standards vary from place to place. Education should be a central subject and all universities should have same standard and syllabus.
It is the duty of the employer to mould the frsh graduates into efficient workers.
The for-profit universities set up the business community recently are the worse of all; these are not recognized by the UGC for good reasons. They may not have adequate standard, or resources or good quality teachers.
I agree it is easy to climb a dias and take a shot at IITs or other institutes
The onus is on the ADMINISTRATION I mean political administration
they should forsee change and have vision based policies
Indian politicians escape by giving statements why are x not world class ?why because they did not bother i)revamp circulum (or appoint people who can) ii)give funds iii)introduce R and D into those institutes
That is if they allowed good people to shape the policies ,things would have been better
even now it is not too late Lucky that sri Shiv Nadar ,sri Azim Premji ,sri Murthy etc are all helping out
Govt of India should take responsibility and frame vision based policies and appoint good people in key posts and not interfere with politics ,also primary responsibility for education sect is Govt ,private sect can then lend a hand
Re: we need vision policies and good people appointed in key post
by Dipak Bose on Nov 01, 2011 04:50 PM
It would be a disaster to allow the businessmen to decide the standard of the academic institutions. Education is not Business. One cannot mix Laxmi with Saraswati.
this topic has been doing round for quite sometime now ....to fix education system in india, the old eeediots should fix their brainssss. with policies that defy logic you cannot teach much to young kids.
old fellows in this country have to reform themselves before its too late... i mean before they are carried off to burning ghat.....
A sceme supposed to be for ten years even by the proposer has become a dracon . With reservation running upto 70-80 % Merit students have no option but to go to private colleges . Now most of the private colleges are run by politicians ,freeland , no teachin staff, no sixth pay for teachers except lakhs and lakhs of donations .Since there is reservation even for teachin - often they have the positions filled by temporary staff who will leave at any time as they get better opportunities .I have known teachers for years togehter on posts reserved for reserved caste and ot filled as they could not get proper teachers .These people do not get even summer moths pay . The whole system is made mockery . Inspections by technical or medical authorities meansonly envelops filled with money .Why can not some one check whether the sixth pay is implemented or not - why not payments statement sbe taken from banks and checked with experience .We know the director MC from Gujrat who amssed crores and crores - no one knows what happened - is he hanged or not ? My best guess is he paid the politicians and all police ,CBI , Anti corruption forces are taken away like dogs being pulled away . Let us be clear - any where politicians enter it is bound to be rot - this is what happend .Half the teachers can not teach as they never leaarnt . Corruption and corruption . Educationsits are missing we have theives building college what will be end result .Results good as merit students join there.
Re: RESERVATION
by Raghavendra Ravi on Nov 06, 2011 05:12 PM
Education has been taken over by "reservationists" -- they get benefitted by reservtion and 'their" politicians start private colleges and collect huge fees from the so called "unreserved category students" .. double profit for some castes!!
