UNIVERSITY 3.0

Just lately the Russian authorities have come up with an unprecedented plan to induce UNIVERSITY 3.0 round their national universities in order to make them more competitive. Developed by Russia’s National Technology Initiative, the UNIVERSITY 3.0 is going to open to doors of a new entrepreneurship in the education system also in order to take up the Russian educational institutes to a whole new level globally. The report has analyzed some of the problems with the Russian education system and found out that since the Russian system has seen research and education as two different facets of working, the system has perished a lot and hence today is the need for the Russians to come up with an approach to merge both the things to come up with a more sophisticated system.

Till the time of the disintegration of USSR, Russians were at the helm of world’s education system. Their Moscow Physics Olympiads were an envy for the students around the world and moreover their huge scientific and research community bolstered their scientific education system too, taking up everything to a whole new level. In the Cold war too, Russian education system filliped up to its maximum extent. The need to encounter US space programs and also to establish its worldly dominance in the scientific fields led to increment in the nation’s education base but unfortunately the disintegration of USSR finally led to the downfall of a system which was once the best and one of its kind.

Though Russian system is not at all that good but still it fares much better than Indian education system. Indian education system till the high school level was adopted directly from the Russian one (going according to the exact level of questions as well as same curriculum in science subjects) but unfortunately the think-tanks of the nation could not comprehend that India at that time was not at all USSR and this ultimately lead to piling of one of the worst education systems around the world in a country which once hosted Takshshila Univesity, the first ever university in the world. Indian education system has failed till now due to various reasons.

1. Lack of teachers is the predominant reason behind the failure of our education system, to a very large extent. Qualified teachers are not at all available since school only care about spending less money and hence don’t want to afford good teachers and talking about colleges, reservation has safely placed teachers in the system who themselves need to be taught about their own subject. Various annual reports regarding the “illiteracy” of our teachers continue to come up from all corners of the nation and due to this fact only, the nation has actually lost faith in its education system.

2. Lack of research has also left no stone unturned in extirpating our education system. Our central universities too, don’t focus on any research for students, what to say about our schools. And it is very easy to envisage what would come out of a system that offers no research capabilities. Our central universities have now just become a home for politics in which teachers as well as students are busy in their own frenzy of jumping into the politics arena and nobody is thinking about what would happen to the students who really want to study and research. Now only IITs remain as the lone colleges which guarantee a better research foundation but unluckily, even there, problems like brain drain continue to haunt the nation and we continue to lose up on important assets of the nation.

3. The third thing is the lack of entrepreneurship in the university and school section. Today our government schools and universities are facing such a dearth of funds that they can’t construct even small buildings. Though in most of the places this is due to the rampant corruption on the part of the authorities but in some cases, the government is actually falling short of allocating funds to various educational institutes. Hence, it is surely better to opt for an entrepreneurship model. This would lead to inflow of more investment as well as a kibosh on the various authorities. If entrepreneurs take up the education system, then first of all it would fillip up a sense of entrepreneurship and business round the nation, second the budding entrepreneurs would be able to run the education system with a more progressive view as well as with more efficacy and above all corruption would itself be left out since the entrepreneurs investing in this field would never let the authorities to swindle the money out.

The contemporary education system is truly a stigma on the whole nation and this fact can be verified actually by all the students studying in the nation currently. Today we need to bring about an everlasting change or a country with the highest working age population would be annihilated despite of having the best resources available.

JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT

JAI MA BHARTI