A case of complete apathy
Professional education in India is deplorable. Except for the IITs and IIMs the level of education being meted out in Indian campuses and colleges is questionable. Take Mumbai University, all its courses and curriculums are ancient without any changes and industrial training courses. Education in India is only meant for the elite. All this about education for the masses and middles classes is hogwash. The funds never reach the institutions and when they do they are not utilized properly. Half the teachers and professors in most of the colleges are not qualified enough. The labs are in deplorable conditions and in colleges such as medicine and architecture, there are more suicides and ragging cases than normal students.
Students are constantly put under pressure by various outside forces such as peer pressure, politics on the campuses and opposite sex distractions. In such a scenario how is a potential student supposed to concentrate? Also, the most promising students are isolated and subject to ridicule and punishment by their less-promising peers and competition. There is so much competition that most students rely on pulling their peers down instead of concentrating on improving their skills. The teachers and professors also are a shame to put up with. They have no sense of ethics and even their subject knowledge is far from proper. Also, people from lower income groups insist on entering the mainstream instead of choosing vocational courses, thereby creating unnecessary competition and jealousy.
Because of reservation, all the students who are of lower classes and categories come out with better results than their mainstream counterparts. As a result, you have professionals coming out, who are just barely meeting the requisite eligibility criteria for employment. No wonder then, that most students coming out of professional colleges are barely employable, whether they be doctors or engineers. In most technical colleges, there is no training in communication, so that even when students have impeccable knowledge, they are not able to communicate their ideas or put across their viewpoints. I have seen professional technical experts from companies like TCS and Godrej who are not able to write even a single sentence or communicate or present their ideas in communicable language. Instead of constantly raising the bar for education, educationists and policy makers should address the questions that students who are in the rat race raise. A country without education is like a handicapped country, with no limbs. We should address the issues of higher education and professional qualifications immediately before it’s too late.
Neha Singh
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