Despite of having a population of
1.252 billion our nations still continues to struggle to scrabble up the leader
to be known as the leader of the world and one of the biggest impediments that’s
restraining our nation from moving ahead is the sluggish higher education
system which has been marring the nation for around 67 years.
If we talk about some recent
statistics then India need to move a lot up even to allocate nation with a “good”
education system. Currently India is having a workforce of 400 million people
out of which 40% are illiterate and other 40% are school dropout with pretty
low education level and only around 20% people are well-qualified. Such a low
figure clearly signals to the appalling condition of Indian education system. Digging
low in the statistics some more horrible facts can be exhumed. Currently there
are around 100 million teenagers in the whole nation out of which only 19% enroll
in higher education institutes. Out of those 81% around half of the students
are those who want to study but can’t go any further because of family problems,
societal problems etc. Amusingly out of those 19%(20 million) who enroll for
higher studies only 3.5 million students join the workforce each year. The rest
(16.5 million) drop out before the completion of courses.
According to the previous statistics, it
can be easily deduced that Indian education system indeed lags behind
miserably.
If we go according to National
Knowledge Commission (NKC) chairman Sam Pitroda then, the first and foremost
reason behind such a poor performance of India in terms of providing higher
education is the lack of teachers around the nation. Despite of having 26000
colleges around the nation (one of the biggest number of colleges in world), India
has a student to teacher ratio of 26:1 which is almost double to that of China.
Due to lack of teachers around the nation, millions of students have to
compromise with the future.
Now, lack of teacher leads to
degradation of quality of teaching. Due to dearth of teachers, a large number
of unqualified teacher are made to teach which is itself not short of killing student’s
future and this too at last adds up as a great problem which maligns the whole
education system of India.
The foreign education providers’ bill
of India is too much degraded. When India announced this bill and let universities
from around the world to open campuses in India, the idea sounded mush
promising but as usual due to red tapes and problems in perfect regulation of
things, at last the bill has become a fiasco and big universities have shifted
their focus to other nations like China and Singapore.
All these things have added up to fire
up the woes of Indian students and forces millions of them either to drop out
or to go abroad to continue their studies (which too leads to a huge financial
pressure on the student’s family). Today the need of the hour is not to find
more and more problems with the system but to find the right remedy to kill the
virus which is annihilating everything out there.
With a hope that we would surely look
on this important topic with utter care and concern, I end my this article.
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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