Study released last week by the Confederation of Indian Industry calls for raising the allocation for India's education sector to 6% of GDP to meet global standards.
With limited seats in govt universities, parents are spending lakhs on private institutions. Some are choosing the latter for its better facilities & infra despite the financial strain.
The real challenge for governance professionals in India is to design systems that ensure transparency and fair play while delivering intended outcomes.
The Delhi launch of ‘The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India’ by Prof R Govinda was a layered discussion on historical failures and troubling trends in education.
The New Education Policy seeks to transform the Indian education system into ‘Bharatiya shiksha pranali’. It offers holistic development but also preserves Indian languages and culture.
To provide an all-around education, schools should be financially independent and beyond the pale of direct government control, free to innovate and keep education alive.
Huge tuition fees and increased living costs in major urban centers where these desirable educational institutes are located are segregating student bodies along caste and class lines.
Various skill bridge institutes will end up pairing with NEP accredited institutes to provide credits for courses completed by an individual over a large time window.
Quality Control Orders (QCOs), governed by Bureau of Indian Standards, are meant to enhance quality of domestic products and restrict substandard imports.
On NSG raising day, Home Minister also opens Special Operation Training Centre at NSG facility in Manesar. Besides NSG troops, it will also train state police forces.
Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.
1. Many people decided to move abroad for better opportunities. Institutions in First World countries speak of liberalism but will not share their educational resources. Currency conversion rates do not help either.
2. British people did discriminate, both in terms of caste and religion. It was less than what Indians did, that’s all.
3. The education they propounded was for (their) ease, for administration. Check Macaulay’s Minutes (1835) if in doubt.
4. The Nobel Prize Committee is handled by Norwegian and Swedish organizations. I highly doubt the committe will take the time and effort to read and apprecaite Indian languages and literature.
P.S. the Gitanjali (special edition) is available online.
I have written extensively on pedagogy and education including my TH-RAMP initiative. Indian states
must also develop their own education systems as it will give them a competitive edge. This is what India must
focus on – We also need human resource-driven economic models. Read my work by typing my name in Google search.
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
The respected author is partly correct. Noble Prize particularly for peace and literature is used as weapon by western elites in influence public opinion in the world , particularly in the global south. The author himself gives the name of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was used as a tool to discredit Soviet Union, not because he was a great writer. Just after the collapse of Soviet Union, he was so much insulted that he had to go back to Putin’s Russia , which is not so popular in the West today. Nobel prize for Literature or Peace cannot be the taken seriously in today’s world to qualify some one great or the writing is great.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is useless; we need the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Fields Medal. The winners should be Indian-born, educated, and working in India.
1. Many people decided to move abroad for better opportunities. Institutions in First World countries speak of liberalism but will not share their educational resources. Currency conversion rates do not help either.
2. British people did discriminate, both in terms of caste and religion. It was less than what Indians did, that’s all.
3. The education they propounded was for (their) ease, for administration. Check Macaulay’s Minutes (1835) if in doubt.
4. The Nobel Prize Committee is handled by Norwegian and Swedish organizations. I highly doubt the committe will take the time and effort to read and apprecaite Indian languages and literature.
P.S. the Gitanjali (special edition) is available online.
I have written extensively on pedagogy and education including my TH-RAMP initiative. Indian states
must also develop their own education systems as it will give them a competitive edge. This is what India must
focus on – We also need human resource-driven economic models. Read my work by typing my name in Google search.
Sujay Rao Mandavilli
The respected author is partly correct. Noble Prize particularly for peace and literature is used as weapon by western elites in influence public opinion in the world , particularly in the global south. The author himself gives the name of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He was used as a tool to discredit Soviet Union, not because he was a great writer. Just after the collapse of Soviet Union, he was so much insulted that he had to go back to Putin’s Russia , which is not so popular in the West today. Nobel prize for Literature or Peace cannot be the taken seriously in today’s world to qualify some one great or the writing is great.
The Nobel Prize in Literature is useless; we need the Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Fields Medal. The winners should be Indian-born, educated, and working in India.