'We have a huge crisis in higher education in India'

[mkrishna100]

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"There is too much focus on building, infrastructure, the number of teachers (as opposed to quality), number of laboratories and so on.

"If the focus shifts to quality, many of the new universities will face problems in getting notified.

Vineet Gupta, co-founder and managing director, Jamboree, a study abroad counselling company shares his concerns.

For more refer this link below :

http://www.rediff.com/getahead/repo...sis-in-higher-education-in-india/20150812.htm

 

[sangom]

I think this is a passing phase. Before Independence, and more, so, till the initial decades of the 20th. century, education (formal english education) absorbed only brahmin- and other high castes- students. An Englishman who was in charge of setting up engineering college, in those days, in one place in Kerala built only vegetarian hostels for the students because he felt that only brahmin students would predominate!

70 years after Independence, the marginalized sections are asserting their numerical superiority, supported by the reservation system. They want to come up but most of them do not have the generations-long practice of study which brahmins had. Time will change this present impasse, I feel and good quality teachers and better quality students will emerge. We will have to wait.

 

[mskmoorthy]

Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan President of Royal Society gave an interview titled
"An India-born Nobel laureate’s solutions for fixing science in India" May be worth reading

http://qz.com/470070/an-india-born-nobel-laureates-solutions-for-fixing-science-in-india/

 

[krish44]

In late sixties there are was a technical teachers training programme at the national level . B.tech from reputed colleges like IIT and indian institute of science were

selected directly and after two years of Mtech in IITs ,made lecturers there directly . They were also given the facilities to do PhD there itself. One of my class mates became a

professor in IIT chennai thru this schems and retired a few years back. I think that scheme got scrapped later in seventies. Also many foreign scholarships were also easily available for

PG and research with tuition fee waiver. some made it to stanford ,MIT also. those were good days for easy admissions to PG programs in US.more than half my

classmates left india for good and never returned

 

[yesmohan]

If salary is offered at par or more than what is offered in software industries, a lot of quality persons will opt for teaching profession.

 

[vgane]

Not just the quality of teachers if the so called management themselves are benamis of politicians how will quality education be delivered...Let us remove all the shackles and allow education to flourish without any political manoeuvrings...

 

[tbs]

hi

once upon a time mostly PSG TECH engineers employed in coimbatore....so much demand,,,,,my mother's maternal had canteen

in anna university in 1960s....mainly brahmin students were there in mechanical/electrical engg....those days are golden

says and used called as GUINDY ENGINEERING COLLEGE...

 

[vgane]

Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan President of Royal Society gave an interview titled
"An India-born Nobel laureate’s solutions for fixing science in India" May be worth reading

http://qz.com/470070/an-india-born-nobel-laureates-solutions-for-fixing-science-in-india/

Good that Ramakrishnan moved away from TN to Gujarat where there is respect for intellect...Had he been in TN he would have faced only abuse...