So,what hopes for our leaders to take India forward? Even highly educated Indians, I mean those with foreign education qualifications and training don’t seem to know how the world is moving forward. Those Indians with foreign qualifications, with MBAs, are employed in corporate world. They are either owner entrepreneurs or employed by businessmen at high…
Category: Education
Engineering education in Karnataka
Chief Minister’s expeditious steps solve tricky problems No day passes in Karnataka without the engineering colleges hitting the front page news headlines!Such is the top priority for engineering education in the state.Bangalore is setting the agenda for top quality engineering graduates. The IT companies are now desparately in search of high quality talent.Infosys,as the news…
A second language is a secure job!
So, teach more foreign languages! The world is changing. More wealth is being created now than in any previous generations. More Indian families are migrating toforeign countries. So, be prepared. That is the message.A report in the American press brings home the latest need for more new language speaking persons. One car distribution firm in…
Engineering and medical education
The trends and the tensions! Nearly 1 million engineering graduates and others are now being employed in the IT industry in India. This is expected to go up fast, given the projections for the IT potential in the coming years. He says it is the small start-ups, by unknown names and faces in Bangalore that…
Crisis hits in higher education!
Rights of the students to get higher education of their choice Anybody has a clue? Anybody has a vision? Yes for question one! No for the next two questions! There is a breakdown of government machinery in Karnatakaand TN. Maharashtra is no better. Medical college seats are now openly bought and sold. There is a…
National Curriculum 2005
Raises very disturbing questions! 300 academics and seven long months. And now we have a New Curriculum Framework of 125 pages dense text! Globalisation had accelerated the process of Westernisation, modernisation and also make us to face the knowledge acquisition an international type of using reason and science and the tools of knowledge like logic…
Should we teach patriotism in our schools?
Rich schools,poor schools,urban schools,rural schools. Schools exist in isolation and what binds the Indian schools?What minmum programme for Indian schools?Regional and language chauvinism had destroyed an Indian identity in the youth.We need some loud thinking,identify the regional politicians who divided the Indian mind and injected the new divsions of regions,castes and prejudices.Schools have to teach…
New Curriculum : for students or teachers?
The New Curriculum 2005 and the Old of 2000 have created some earthquakes of sorts in the Indian education sector. In India constitutes a class of people who have been molded in the Macualay education model and also given the way Indian middle class had grown in the pre and post-Independent India there is no…