One nation, one school board?
To increase employability of graduates, we need uniformity in school education
It is admission season, and, once again,
cries for quotas and reservations fill the air as students — at every level
from playschool upwards all the way to PhD programmes — scramble to get a place
in the more sought-after courses and institutions in India’s ferociously
competitive education system.
The demand-supply gap is staggering, despite
the fact that in absolute numbers, India continues to have the largest number
of children out of school in any country in the world. The twin issues of
accessibility and affordability combine into a deadly double whammy for parents
struggling to educate their children. For the poor, access to affordable (free
or subsidised) government education is limited due to the absence of anything
like the requisite physical and soft infrastructure.
For those who can afford to pay, the
challenge of finding a seat for their wards in one of the sought-after schools
leads to ridiculous scenes of hysterical parents protesting in the streets and
plethora of court cases every year.
Regards
Pralhad
Jadhav
Senior Manager @
Knowledge Repository
Khaitan
& Co
Upcoming Lecture | ACTREC - BOSLA Annual lecture series (125th birth anniversary of
father of library science, Padmashree Dr. S. R. Ranganathan) on Saturday, 12th August 2017 at
Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC),
Kharghar, Navi Mumbai. (Theme |
'MakerSpace')
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