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| Transformation in Society through Quality Education | | | Dr. Banarsi Lal and Dr. Pawan Sharma | 2/21/2018 9:05:41 PM |
| None of the Indian universities is in the list of world's top 200 universities. Indian universities have fared poorly in the Times Higher Education University Ranking. India's top ranking university IISc has also fallen in the 201-250 group to the 251-300 group. Universities need additional funding for the development of infrastructure and academics. Indian universities are slipping down the order when the other Asian universities in China, Hong Kong and Singapore are consistently improving their rank. Oxford University is at first rank in the world followed by Cambridge. Indian universities have been slipped down from their previous ranking and none of them features in first 200 universities in the world. While considering the ranking of the universities proportion of international students, number of undergraduate students, research output, citations received by the faculty, research funding, student-teacher ratio is taken into consideration. Most of the Indian premier institutes cater to only one particular stream such as engineering or management etc. which reduces the variety and research. Students' intake and corresponding faculty is also smaller in the Indian universities as compared to the world universities. Research citations are also less in the Indian universities. The Indian education system needs to revamp and more efforts are needed in the research, research funding and infrastructure of the Indian universities.
Quality education is said to be key instrument for the development of any society and is considered as the backbone of any nation in the world. An intelligent society always likes to invest in the quality education for its future generations. It has been observed that the private institutions provide good quality education as compared to the Government institutions. These private institutions are meant for only the financially sound candidates and Government institutions are left for the poor or middle class candidates. In order to improve the quality of education every year the Government spends huge amount of money on the Government educational institutions. There is urgent need to provide the quality and equitable education for all with a common curriculum. Professionally qualified and trained teachers are needed to impart the quality education. We just think for the enrolment and not for the children's learning. It is astonishing that there is 97 per cent enrolment in 5th class, 35 per cent in 12th class and less than 20 per cent in higher education and around half of our graduates are unemployable in any sector.
We all know about the campus selections in the Engineering, MBA or other colleges. Top IT companies visit Arts and Science Colleges to select the graduates in Computer Science, Physics, Statistics, and Mathematics etc. for different IT based jobs. The recruiting team says that these graduates are trained for a short period and then the jobs are offered to them. Now the education systems is globally changing and in this global interaction thousands of youngsters are going abroad for higher education and many of the youths are coming to the Indian universities from across the globe. The education system in India has become more global than thousands years ago when the Chinese monks came to Nalanda to learn more about Buddhism in India. Now with the winds of change blowing across the different continents, the youths too have to embrace the whole world in one sweep, for knowledge boundaries and narrow confines. Now every Indian can be said as the world citizen and the whole world is now the job market for him.
The Indian youth needs to hone his skill in such a way that he can not only become a job-seeker but a job-giver. The entrepreneurs like Mukesh Ambani, Anil Ambani, L.N. Mittal etc. are not made in a day. They acquired quality education, perseverance and positive attitude. In present era they are said to be the stars in the business world. They have spread their empires far and wide across the globe. L.N. Mittal is a symbol of Indian Ex-President Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam who has projected the Indian youths. In an interaction with school children, a child asked to Dr.Kalam that whether there would be enough jobs in India for all of them when they would be grown up. He answered in a very simple way that there would be no dearth of jobs if many of you grow up to become job- providers, instead of becoming job-seekers.
Quality education develops sensitivity in us to the outside problems. Our well-educated officers should think that even the slightest dereliction of duty on their part can cause irreparable damage to the nation. Quality education creates conditions for the development of a wholesome personality of an individual so that he can contribute his best to the family, society and the nation. He can be capable of nurturing the right values within the setting of family and become a role model for the children. We should think that the children watch our activities. In case we fail to practice the values we teach, our children would taunt us about our lapse. There has been mushrooming growth of engineering colleges in India. It has been observed that there are more than 1,346 engineering colleges in India with an annual enrolment of more than 4.50 lakhs of students. The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) needs to monitor the quality education in most of these private colleges. The parents of the students who spend huge amount of money on their children education need to contemplate for admission in these colleges.
After evaluating out India's top engineering colleges, experts recommended in putting them alongside IITs, saying it may even seem detrimental to the stature of the existing IITs. These findings came from two sources-an expert committee which gave its report to the Human Resource Development Ministry and a standing committee of the council of IITs. The expert committee was headed by S.K. Joshi, a, a former Director-General of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).The committee short listed seven institutions in order of merit, taking into account all the relevant parameters. The committee said that even these institutions fall below the level of existing IITs in the criteria used for short listing. The committee felt that it is not correct to position these institutions alongside the IITs. The committee suggested that these seven institutions may be said as the institutions possessing the best potential among the engineering colleges in the country for up gradation to the level of IITs. Our main competitor country China and many other countries like Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan are spending a lot of money on the higher education. They are having research- based world class universities. India is having the third largest higher education sector in the world after China and the United States of America but its cannot afford to sit on its oars. India edges over China in a way that it uses English as a primary language for higher education and research. Our country is having a long academic tradition. In India there are less numbers of high quality institutions, departments and centres that can form the basis of quality higher education.
In India only around 10 per cent of people can go for higher education, it is 15 per cent in China and more than 50 per cent in the industrialized countries. IITs, IIMSs, AIIMS and the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research enroll well under one per cent of the population. We should contemplate a lot for our quality in higher education so that we can compete with the world. Our neighboring country China is investing heavily in improving the quality of higher education in its universities with the objective of making a large number of them world class in the coming years. China is striving to make internationally competitive research- based universities. India too needs quality education universities which can produce the brilliant graduates and also promising research scholars, which are required to provide knowledge to knowledge poor society. We should think that only quality education can provide right job to an individual. Quality education not only helps to get the right job but also creates opportunities of income and self-employment. We should face he truth boldly. If everybody will hunt for job then there are not enough job opportunities in our nation. In government sector jobs are few and it cannot accommodate the vast army of job-seekers. A few among the daring individuals should take risk of becoming the job-givers. Many of today's youths want the comfortable government jobs. Now the time has changed and if they find a job in a good firm or in multinational company would be more satisfying as compared to the Government sector. If we look to the heroes of rags-to-riches stories, we find that most of them were having brain and brawn but they were lacking the money to launch their projects born out of their idea. They were having indomitable will power to achieve the seemingly impossible targets. |
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