If this subject is offered to a student of our country, he or she
may write pages on it due to its popularity and awareness amongst them. On one
side, our country is supposed to be revolutionized by campaigns such as Digital
India, but the actual story, regarding the present persisting education system
in our country, is very sad. Education at any level in India is still suffering
because of those conventional methods of teaching which are still being
followed in the schools and universities of our country.
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| IIM Indore |
There are a few major challenges which our higher education system
is facing which has been acknowledged successfully, but, unfortunately, the
speed of rectifying these challenges is very slow. The problems, which the
higher education system is facing includes poor infrastructure along with
facilities, large vacant seats in the colleges are due to the less faculty
available results in low student enrollment rate, poor research standards, and
overcrowded classrooms. It's a great effort to ensure same quality higher
education for students belonging to the families below the poverty line.
Students with poor backgrounds get exposed to another major
drawback of costly private tuitions and coaching thereby becomes very difficult
for them to crack any competitive exams. For instance, IIM Indore is one of the costliest institutes to study in. Due to
lack of funds from the Government, the quality of research in the institutes of
repute has also declined.
In most of the cases, the colleges which are established in the
rural areas have extremely poor infrastructure and facilities with less faculty
in number. The government is making new reforms, but the problem, then lies in
the delay in its implementation. Due to limited workforce, the efforts put in
are also not visible.
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| IIM Bangalore |
Few of the important challenges accounts for the consistent up
gradation of the curriculum so as to remain updated with the recent advancement
of science and its globalization. The requirement of systematic funding in
colleges like IIM Bangalore to meet
the demands of the various novels, innovative programs is very essential so
that a meaningful and purposeful research work can be performed.
After discussing the major cons of the education system lets put
some light upon the suggestions, which can implement for the progress of the
system. The few points include revised package of the faculty, innovative
practices which covers all shades of life, mobilization of resources, providing
student interest education focusing on the areas of research based subjects,
enhancing the other life skills rather than academics which can help to lead
their life purposefully, public-private partnership which will introduce
students to new industries and their demanding profiles, to introduce
cross-culture programmes to enhance better understanding of the people
belonging to different cultures, to stress upon the individual development in
all walks of life, and last but not the least to focus and to cautiously focus
on the major issues i.e. how to improve more and more in providing quality
education.
Through this above discussion, we can draw a major conclusion that
for the achievement and for sustaining quality in national, regional or
international levels, there is a single most important points, i.e. suitable
selection of staff with their consistent development, which can improve the
condition of our education system at the grass root level.
