Preoccupied with immediate organisational and operational challenges, the services have ignored military education for too long.
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The proven success of the training at the Academy, revolving around the co-operative partnership of the Four Services, has now suffered a setback. The training officers from the three combat services being on migratory tenure appointment, the permanent civilian academic officers with their co-operative participatory contributions are to provide the stability for progressive training – not only in academics but in other spheres as well. On university affiliation for the award of degree and introduction of the UGC pay, stipulation of graded qualifications for each tier of appointment and the adoption of new recruitment rules as prescribed by the UGC have combined to create a new cadre of teachers always keen to progress only on their ACADEMIC GLORIFICATION GUIDED BY AMBITION & GREED TO FAST TRACK their career – Personal ambition placed above the mission of their role. The old breed of teachers not confined exclusively to classrooms to be always present with the cadets guiding and supervising them in the play fields, hobby rooms and squadron anterooms as a stable partner and mentor of comprehensive training contributing to shape the cadets as effective and diligent leaders seem to have vanished. Their innovative inter disciplinary approach to ignite in the cadets an expansive vision and desire for details through wisdom oriented excursions in learning to reach an acceptable standard for takeoff on sustained learning process, seems to have taken a backseat in the approach of the new breed of teachers. The impact of their withdrawal from all allied activities, perhaps, has gone unnoticed to initiate steps to anchor them back to total participation.
The Haloed Academy has now become a college / de-facto university with all the “virtues” that are associated with academicians in many of them. WE HAVE DEVIATED FROM THE ESTABLISHED CONCEPT OF INTEGRATED TRAINING THROUGH COOPERATIVE PARTICIPATION OF FOUR SERVICES .
Bang on, Arjun! Unless the military leadershipm realises that warfare is more cerebral, how can you stem the rot! I hv been advocating intellect deficiency plagues the Service and there is little initiative to change this mind set, though fortunately every commander has begun to appreciate this issue. Basic fallacy stems in understanding how Indian democracy functions. It is the services responsibility to be current on all issues & keep pace with the environment, perception that sending a case to the MoD is good enough is wishful. Indian Govt works differently. User departments analyses, prepares a plan & gets it approved by the ministry & then implements it. Services are not prepared to do all this as thevperception is it is MoD’s responsibility. Under such environment we are doomed to suffer. Every star general in the US Armed Forces has spent couple of years at prestigious US universities acquiring analytical skills & higher learning. But Indian def leaders remain class 10 pass, now JNU under graduates. Studying in own schools of instructions, makes them skillfull on matters military but doesn’t enhance their all round capability. Need drastic reforms earlier the better!
Arjun you are absolutely right.
It is high time we realised that we need thinking soldiers.
The 21st century battlefield is no place for fighting men/women who do not understand technology.
Sainik school and military school both are different and the selection of the teachers are done differently ..sainik school principal(col) select the teachers. Where as in military school upsc…
One more reason behind sub standard education is sub standard treatment towards teacher by administration and lack of proper amount of remuneration.
Teachers now a days act like a event manager except subject or the field of expertise…he is looking towards all round of events and paper work in the school…
System do select a good teachers but over the period of time unnecessary task assign to them , make them unnecessary people…
The proven success of the training at the Academy, revolving around the co-operative partnership of the Four Services, has now suffered a setback. The training officers from the three combat services being on migratory tenure appointment, the permanent civilian academic officers with their co-operative participatory contributions are to provide the stability for progressive training – not only in academics but in other spheres as well. On university affiliation for the award of degree and introduction of the UGC pay, stipulation of graded qualifications for each tier of appointment and the adoption of new recruitment rules as prescribed by the UGC have combined to create a new cadre of teachers always keen to progress only on their ACADEMIC GLORIFICATION GUIDED BY AMBITION & GREED TO FAST TRACK their career – Personal ambition placed above the mission of their role. The old breed of teachers not confined exclusively to classrooms to be always present with the cadets guiding and supervising them in the play fields, hobby rooms and squadron anterooms as a stable partner and mentor of comprehensive training contributing to shape the cadets as effective and diligent leaders seem to have vanished. Their innovative inter disciplinary approach to ignite in the cadets an expansive vision and desire for details through wisdom oriented excursions in learning to reach an acceptable standard for takeoff on sustained learning process, seems to have taken a backseat in the approach of the new breed of teachers. The impact of their withdrawal from all allied activities, perhaps, has gone unnoticed to initiate steps to anchor them back to total participation.
The Haloed Academy has now become a college / de-facto university with all the “virtues” that are associated with academicians in many of them. WE HAVE DEVIATED FROM THE ESTABLISHED CONCEPT OF INTEGRATED TRAINING THROUGH COOPERATIVE PARTICIPATION OF FOUR SERVICES .
Bang on, Arjun! Unless the military leadershipm realises that warfare is more cerebral, how can you stem the rot! I hv been advocating intellect deficiency plagues the Service and there is little initiative to change this mind set, though fortunately every commander has begun to appreciate this issue. Basic fallacy stems in understanding how Indian democracy functions. It is the services responsibility to be current on all issues & keep pace with the environment, perception that sending a case to the MoD is good enough is wishful. Indian Govt works differently. User departments analyses, prepares a plan & gets it approved by the ministry & then implements it. Services are not prepared to do all this as thevperception is it is MoD’s responsibility. Under such environment we are doomed to suffer. Every star general in the US Armed Forces has spent couple of years at prestigious US universities acquiring analytical skills & higher learning. But Indian def leaders remain class 10 pass, now JNU under graduates. Studying in own schools of instructions, makes them skillfull on matters military but doesn’t enhance their all round capability. Need drastic reforms earlier the better!
Arjun you are absolutely right.
It is high time we realised that we need thinking soldiers.
The 21st century battlefield is no place for fighting men/women who do not understand technology.
Sainik school and military school both are different and the selection of the teachers are done differently ..sainik school principal(col) select the teachers. Where as in military school upsc…
One more reason behind sub standard education is sub standard treatment towards teacher by administration and lack of proper amount of remuneration.
Teachers now a days act like a event manager except subject or the field of expertise…he is looking towards all round of events and paper work in the school…
System do select a good teachers but over the period of time unnecessary task assign to them , make them unnecessary people…