College & Education: Re: [MTC Global] If Germany can, Why can't we?

Kid is the wealth of nation. To educate them is a national responsibility. In Gurukul system tuition and living was free.

Yesterday and today in a sense India is imparting free education-primary to tertiary. Look:

I had scholarships at 4th, 7th, PUC and later for my UG. Those days for BE tuition fees was Rs 180 pa and Hostel fees Rs. 120 pa. On obtianing BE (Mechanical) in 1966, I gave a bond to the Institute that I would serve the nation for two years if called for. But, alas! never called. I got my ME and PhD under sponsorship. Many organizations/personnel like Pune Anath Vidyarthee Griha, Pune, Lok Raja Shahu, Sayajirao Gaikwad (supported Dr. Ambedkar) , Jyotirao Fule, Bharatratna Maharshi Karve, Krmaveer Bhaurao Patil, etc.,used to support haves-not students.

Private education providers have been appearing since mid-1980s and India has adopted cost-based education model mainly for SEFIs. We had some tuition fees regulatory measures like free and payment seats and now State Shulka Samiti. The tuition fees are sky racketting. Rich class hardly 5%of population enters safely, the upper middle and middle class of hardly 10-15 % population struggles hard and gets entry, but remaining 80% population can hardly have access in higher professional education, inclusive that of urban, rural and tribal areas, because of such reasons as weak financial conditions, lack of support and resources, illiteracy, etc.

Today GOI collects educational cess. Tuition fees in govt./govt.. aided institutes is comparatively low but over 80% seats are captured by 15% population both in govt. funded or SEFIs. The irony is Govt. reimburse fees almost over 60% of such students under one reason or the other like EBC concession, and add to that minority and other scholarships. That means public funding is practiced promoting SEFIs.

Is it that difficult to provide free education to one and all irrespective of their socio-economic status in a land recognized as a land of gold, see our temples, churches and masjids, the list of world richest persons, our unbelievable scams, etc.? Free education implies that education is no more a private good but a public good to be used as nation needs. Here lies the key issue.

Please note that MOOC is the outcome of social responsibility, realising that non-Harvard 90% student population must be brought in the main flow of national development. India needs a rational National Education Policy. I am but certain that the public will come forward in the campaign of living and tuition free to our kids provided the backbone of our policy is nation making and national minded. Indian public is still sensitive to such national cause and works out beyond self-caste-religion interests.

Please see the attachments.

Regards,

Dr. P H Waghodekar, PhD (Egg), IIT,KGP, IE&M, 1985,
Advisor (HR), IBS & PME (PG)
Marathwada Institute of Technology,
Aurangabad: 431028 (Maharashtra) INDIA.
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E-Mail: waghodekar@rediffmail.com
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and
Chairman, Advisory Board, MTC Global, Bangalore.

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From: padma misra
Sent: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 12:41:38
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] If Germany can, Why can't we?

There is point I like to make here about free education.

I believe...in india ...education in government institution is already highly subsidized.

I remmember paying...a little more than 750 rupees as yearly fees for graduation.

Even now..it is very very less compared to private institutions.

And during my PHD I paid 200 rupees per month.

During MBA hostel fees was. 200 rupees per month and total cost of MBA course was 50000

That seemed high in 1997. But the fees has gone up to 70000 now.

Now that';s is such a cool amount.

Ofcourse..now I am paying...education cess...higher education cess...this cess..that cess

And worried where my hard earned money is going to.

So I actually studies almost free as far as tution fee is concerned.

Only difficulty was that after paying a PHD fee of Rs 200 per month...the real cost of phd was far greater and ran in couple of hundrerd thousand of rupees.

On 21 Oct 2014 23:29, "padma misra" wrote:

Great..best news ever...

On 21 Oct 2014 21:40, "Prof. Bholanath Dutta" wrote:
If Germany has done it, why can't we? That's the question being asked by many students around the world in countries that charge tuition fees to go to university.

From this semester, all higher education will be free for Germans and international students alike at universities across the country, after Lower Saxony became the final state to abolish tuition fees.

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