1. Changing Education scenario of India Vikram Singh Slathia
Changing Education scenario of
India
I f you look at the conventional times, may be that of 60’s or 70’s, you would
notice that education India was not that competent as it is now. Today you will
notice a cut-throat competition with students securing not less than 90% marks
even in their CBSE board exams. Lately the 'first list' cut-off for science students at
Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi, has been declared
at 100 % and the introduction of grading system is a bold step in field of education.
It is this example that depicts the difference of education and changing scenario of
education India.
Now, when you need to enter any profession, you need to hold a good reputed
degree or a diploma and that too with good marks. This clearly means that
education fetches more money and produces better people as a result overseas
education has become increasingly popular in recent years as it is viewed as
offering the student likelihood of better future employment. Overseas study can be
either by scholarship or through personal finances. On the contrary, lack of
education leads to the route of crime or may be helplessness and many more issues,
with special reference to poverty in India. However, India is a nation that has
always tried to bring the rural India in line with the mainstream by also introducing
several govt. schools and colleges in villages and introducing systems that
empowers socially and economically deprived students with the tool of education.
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2. Changing Education scenario of India Vikram Singh Slathia
This educational system is called NIOS. The NIOS system is specially directed
towards such students as well as those who have dropped out of their schools due
to any reason. A credit system is now in place at a number of Universities to
replace the older subject based system. In the new credit system, each course is
assigned a credit amount. Each credit represents one hour of theoretical lectures
plus one hour of preparation per week over a 14-16 week semester. A four year
program will normally require a total of 210 credits. Five-year programs require
270 credits and six-year programs require 320 credits
But presently Lack of quality faculty has been hampering the
overall quality of higher education in the country, on the occasion of Foundation
Day and 17th convocation of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE)
Sukhdeo Thorat, chairman of University Grant Commission (UGC) said that
around 50 per cent posts were vacant in colleges across the country. “Many
colleges have been employing teachers on contract to fill this gap. However, I feel
that teaching could not be outsourced. This outsourcing of teaching is hampering
the quality of education,” Thorat said the National Assessment and Accreditation
Council (NAAC) had assessed 162 universities and 4094 colleges till March 2010.
“It was found that while about 37.65 per cent varsities are A grade, 58.65 per cent
are B grade and 3.70 per cent low grade. Of the total colleges assessed about 10.11
per cent are A grade, 68 per cent B grade and 23 per cent C grade,” he said. “ It
was found that the number of A grade varsities and colleges were less since many
of the varsities and colleges lacked proper physical infrastructure and more
importantly quality teachers,” he said.“ Teachers are not a manufacturing
community and it involves interaction between students and teachers for a better
teaching-learning process.”
At last I want to say that Education in India has come a long
way since conventional times and in today’s scenario is has become a tough
competition for all the students to make an entry in their desired field. Education
fetches respect and finally money, but most of all it fetches you information and
knowledge that makes your brain come out of social obstacles!
Vikram Singh Slathia
C.U Rajasthan
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