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The 24 percent hike in the outlay for education announced in the union budget 2011-12 will not help the sector because what is needed is a change in mindset, Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said Thursday.
"A 24 percent budget hike will not help the education sector. It is not just money allocation that we need, the country needs a change in mindsets involved in teaching, the quality of education and the education provider," Sibal said at the inauguration of the three-day Emerging Directions in Global Education (EDGE) conference in the capital.
"To change the dimensions of higher education in the country, we need a whole new crop of teachers who are responsible and willing to teach from their hearts.”
The annual EDGE conference brings together the heads of higher education institutions from all over the country, including vice chancellors, directors and educationists, to interact on policy making in the higher education sector.
"While focusing on higher education, we also need to think of the diluting quality because of mushrooming institutes. The ministry has often done checks in such private institutions where the entire faculty is hired for a very short period to lure students," Sibal said, referring to the money-minting business of various institutes.
According to statistics by Ernst and Young, nearly 40 million students are expected to opt for higher education by the year 2020, compared to the current 17 million.
Source: igovernment
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Dr P H Waghodekar Mon, 2011-03-14 09:39
Quality is not a commodity available in market. Quality is inherent in the facilities involved and Quality is always free but depnds on: Integrated HR with values and character, designing three networks-physical, organizational and information, process and performance managemnt in place. Have strict talent acquisition, pre-in-service training, no life long job but a tenure job of say 5 years, fire ineffective HR, 100% target achievement of teaching a must, reduce teaching load but attendance must be 100%. In conventional teaching, actual teaching takes place for 5 minutes in a cycle time of 100 minutes (one year cycle), go for waste elimination, reduce degree dyration say from 4 years to three, a great national saving,mere PhD does not ensure a qulity teacher, else get PhD today, become Principal/Prpfessor tomorrow, and demand pay package Rs 1.5 -2.0 lakhs pm, forget about the subject depth, but even drafting a small letter is a Herculean task to them. PhD is not a reseach qulification but merely a certification that one now can carry research independently and then real reserach starts. Judge this achievement as a qualification. Change the (examination)class awarding proceedure: class must be declared only on the basis of clearing all semester courses in one sitting, else students get first class on the total of marks, subject pass one by one over a span of 5-20 years (this is a practice of all universities even for such courses as ME. MBA. MCA). It is suprising that during the time of recession we in India rose pay package to almost 2-3 times without linking with productivity and performance. Higher pay for productivity is our phylosophy! And if we consider our kids as the national treasure, provide them tuition and living free, treat degree as social good and place the graduates for national cuase at least for two years. Do not tnink of cost-based education that will bring in calamity over a span of 50-100 years to this country. No compromise with quality. We need quantity and quality together. And it can be done in the national interest.
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