Indian education sector needs holistic relook: experts


Dubai, Mar 18 (PTI): india needs to have a comprehensive relook at its education sector to prepare its youth which comprises over 50 percent of the 1.3 billion population for the future, educationists and experts have suggested.

Speaking at the sixth Global Education and Skills Forum (GESF) in Dubai, the experts called for a shift in the policy to meet the challenges of the changing times.

"A relook at the Indian education sector is inevitable given that the current system was developed in the pre-Independence era for just five percent of the population and that too for clerical roles, with no room for creativity or promoting social reorganisation," said Aditya Nataraj, Founder director Kaivalya Education Foundation, a social change organisation working in the field of education.

He suggested a shift from a system of "monitoring, inspection and suspension" to one that "enables, empowers and inspires" young people.

Kavita Sanghvi, Principal MET Rishikul Vidyalaya, said the biggest challenge before policymakers was to bring on par all three tiers of schools state boards, national and international education providers.

She also called for stronger synergies between industry and educational providers.

Bikkrama Singh, Associate Director of policy think tank Central Square Foundation, called for big bang reforms that include establishing the rigorous sample-based assessment of the children and their skills.

He asserted that children were ill-prepared for school, with the learning gap progressively surfacing as they move to secondary and senior secondary levels.

Shaheen Mistri, CEO of non-profit organisation Teach for India called for inclusion of 'love' factor, saying it was central to revolutionising the sector.

"This includes a five-step approach of creating safe spaces for voices, promoting the spirit of partnership between educators and kids, view children as change-makers of today, driving regional and national dialogue on equity in education, and encouraging experiments in reimagining education," Mistri said.

  

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  • A.Quadros, Kundapur

    Sun, Mar 18 2018

    Yes I agree, Indian education system is best for Indian standard but not best enough to compete with International standards. We produce theoretically fed and programmed robots but the practical applications are very minimal.

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  • Max and Jessie Rasquinha, Mangalore - Houston/Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.

    Sun, Mar 18 2018

    Indian Educational standard is 'good" but certainly requires a cosmetic change to suit with the growing trends of the world. The global standards are rapidly changing because of the global economic conditions, global population conditions, and also global technological conditions.

    India's Educational has been extremely noteworthy from the time India won the freedom from the British. Our noble leaders who architecture our Educational priorities from the very start by giving the top most priority to our Education, and we must confess that we too were also the lucky beneficiaries of the revised Education system all over India.

    Since our Independence of India in the year 1947 we have witnessed a massive growth of population, and all our new born children were under pressure to go to school and learn whatever that was made possible and available, while the British standard of system still prevailed in most of the Educational sector.

    Since 1947, India is proud to have accomplished a tremendous growth in our Educational system. Our Educational Institutions have multiplied ten fold with some of our own best of faculties who have exerted great deal of efforts in formulating our Educational system to meet with the International standards. Our Industrialization all over India is attributable to our own Educational strength and creative. We have today more than two million Graduates coming out of our own Universities with best of our disciplines.

    However, our overall system of Education does require and also deserve a new glimpse to suit with our growing Economy and our own domestic capacity that is virtually in line with majority of the countries of the world. Our Educational budgets need a new focus to suit with our own National capacity. We can change, and we have every reason to change, because India has an abundance of intellectual capacity and willingness to change with the time. India is a great country in today's global standard, and India has the best.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Sun, Mar 18 2018

    Indian Education is still among the best in the World ...

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