When the survival of Indian industries will be on inhouse innovation, then there will be a demand for quality education and quality students and education will improve. Till technology and ideas are available liberally from other countries,one needs only trained operators not original thinkers. Till such time present style of education will continue.
When the survival of Indian industries will be on inhouse innovation, then there will be a demand for quality education and quality students and education will improve. Till technology and ideas are available liberally from other countries,one needs only trained operators not original thinkers. Till such time present style of education will continue.
The BPO and IT industry in India today is a perfect example of what you have stated. The IT engineers here are no less than trained operators who are only required to perform within the given framework with little or no innovation. BPO is nothing but as the name suggests, perform the back office chores for foreign companies! Very little or almost no stress is given for original and authentic ideas! A fact that fully reflects our education system which again reflects back the kind of work done here!
When the survival of Indian industries will be on inhouse innovation, then there will be a demand for quality education and quality students and education will improve. Till technology and ideas are available liberally from other countries,one needs only trained operators not original thinkers. Till such time present style of education will continue.
The BPO and IT industry in India today is a perfect example of what you have stated. The IT engineers here are no less than trained operators who are only required to perform within the given framework with little or no innovation. BPO is nothing but as the name suggests, perform the back office chores for foreign companies! Very little or almost no stress is given for original and authentic ideas! A fact that fully reflects our education system which again reflects back the kind of work done here!
We should not be pessimistic about our educational system, because it reflects what the market wants. Today in the ladder of development we are not a innovative society but we can operate complex technologies based on the education we have obtained. For example India makes $ 20 billion worth of generic drugs and exports $15 billion worth. Generic drugs are drugs whose patent protection has finished. So Indian companies take up the manufacture of these cheap drugs at cheap costs. Today this is appropriate with our level of funding and abilities. As we go along higher up in the development ladder we shall enter the innovation stage also and then the demand for education will accordingly be of a different type than today. In IT India is exporting its comparative advantage of relatively cheaper knowledge worker as against China which is exporting its comparative advantage of cheaper labor by being a manufacturer of goods at a cheap rate. Nothing wrong. Innovation requires huge capital which is the advantage of richer nations like USA,Germany etc.
When the survival of Indian industries will be on inhouse innovation, then there will be a demand for quality education and quality students and education will improve. Till technology and ideas are available liberally from other countries,one needs only trained operators not original thinkers. Till such time present style of education will continue.
The BPO and IT industry in India today is a perfect example of what you have stated. The IT engineers here are no less than trained operators who are only required to perform within the given framework with little or no innovation. BPO is nothing but as the name suggests, perform the back office chores for foreign companies! Very little or almost no stress is given for original and authentic ideas! A fact that fully reflects our education system which again reflects back the kind of work done here!
We should not be pessimistic about our educational system, because it reflects what the market wants. Today in the ladder of development we are not a innovative society but we can operate complex technologies based on the education we have obtained. For example India makes $ 20 billion worth of generic drugs and exports $15 billion worth. Generic drugs are drugs whose patent protection has finished. So Indian companies take up the manufacture of these cheap drugs at cheap costs. Today this is appropriate with our level of funding and abilities. As we go along higher up in the development ladder we shall enter the innovation stage also and then the demand for education will accordingly be of a different type than today. In IT India is exporting its comparative advantage of relatively cheaper knowledge worker as against China which is exporting its comparative advantage of cheaper labor by being a manufacturer of goods at a cheap rate. Nothing wrong. Innovation requires huge capital which is the advantage of richer nations like USA,Germany etc.
Your inputs have really given me something to hope for and from that perspective it does look good. Yet the general trend of following what the market demands, isn't it harmful in the long run??? And as far as funds for innovation are concerned, i think we do not lack money, only thing is it is channeled into all wrong places such as larger-than-life statues and memorial parks of people whose ideals we no longer follow. If somehow all that money can be brought into more important sectors such as research etc. the scenario can be changed in no time.
In this respect, Tirupati Devasthanam is doing a yeoman service to the education system. Because of its huge income, it's not only maintaining a university,but also aiding those institutions that strive for innovations in the education system. It also encourages those creative youngsters by giving them scholarships and allowing them to study in any foreign or Indian universities of their choice. But we need more such philanthropic institutions.
Money power plays a big role in getting seats even if one has good marks. I read that in TN a medical seat is going for Rs 2 crores in private colleges.
It's the same here. Buy any seat with money in any college. Education has become a lucrative business.
No doubt increasing number of Indian students are taking admissions abroad where they get their course of choice and it many times is cheaper than costs in India. I know a father who sent his son to study for his 11th and12th equivalent school course abroad as he said he can get admission without hassle in a good college and cost will also be less. He succeeded and both are today doctors abroad.
Money power plays a big role in getting seats even if one has good marks. I read that in TN a medical seat is going for Rs 2 crores in private colleges.
It's the same here. Buy any seat with money in any college. Education has become a lucrative business.
No doubt increasing number of Indian students are taking admissions abroad where they get their course of choice and it many times is cheaper than costs in India. I know a father who sent his son to study for his 11th and12th equivalent school course abroad as he said he can get admission without hassle in a good college and cost will also be less. He succeeded and both are today doctors abroad.
In India education still based on money. In foreign countries they are taking money as well as providing good education for their students and based on merit they are providing jobs for the right candidates. In India several colleges taking money from students and didn't give good education. Some colleges didn't get AICTE permission for conducting courses.
Money power plays a big role in getting seats even if one has good marks. I read that in TN a medical seat is going for Rs 2 crores in private colleges.
It's the same here. Buy any seat with money in any college. Education has become a lucrative business.
No doubt increasing number of Indian students are taking admissions abroad where they get their course of choice and it many times is cheaper than costs in India. I know a father who sent his son to study for his 11th and12th equivalent school course abroad as he said he can get admission without hassle in a good college and cost will also be less. He succeeded and both are today doctors abroad.
In India education still based on money. In foreign countries they are taking money as well as providing good education for their students and based on merit they are providing jobs for the right candidates. In India several colleges taking money from students and didn't give good education. Some colleges didn't get AICTE permission for conducting courses.
Even I have seen so many schools are running just on a brand name without proper affiliation.."proposed CBSE affiliation" , and parents also don't think twice before admitting their kids to such schools.
Education should develop the aspect of thinking in a person. But it is only based on books. It should be made practical so that students should understand what ever they study.
Students are just learning theory from most of the books but in real world everything is practical. Definitely education system should be change. Good students who are studying very well also lose their seats in good colleges in point difference for the seat in counseling.
Education system in India has become a money making business. Otherwise there won't be 552 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu and 1.2 lakh seats fall vacant in this year counselling. Quality of education should be improved. A diploma passed out student has much more in depth knowledge on the subject than an engineering graduate. Many advancements have come in all technologies. But students still study only first or second generation technology. This drawback pushes students into many coaching centers to learn what they need at this point of time.
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