Re: [MTC Global] Azim Premji for greater public investment in education

I would like to see a day when the education policy creates only guidelines for what an Institute should be delivering Unfortunately all the Councils are busy checking land, infrastructure, faculty, bank balance, and none are concentrating on the outcome from these institutes. Why land requirement in Metro and rural are different only because of cost and non availability. This proves that land is not an important component. As rightly said the teacher education system is working only on commercial pattern and so are the other professional institutes.

Left to themselves institutes will be getting students only if they are worth. See how competition helped India get any car in the market against the earlier option of Ambassador and Fiat. Let there be a National ranking which should have feedback from students and their measurement as a major yard stick

High time for  drastic change in education policy 

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:

While calling for revamping and empowering the existing public education system, Wipro chairman Azim Premji on Tuesday suggested increasing public investment in education, which at present was woefully inadequate, and observed that political will and prioritisation was essential to realize the goal.

He said that public expenditure on education in India is 2.8 per cent of the GDP, while that of other developing countries is over 3.5 per cent and developed countries, which have good education systems, is 5 to 6 per cent of the GDP.

The IT czar was speaking on 'Improving school education in India' at the centenary lecture series organised by the University of Mysore. He was earlier conferred an honorary doctorate by the university.

Mr. Premji spoke in favour of strengthening public education, which has today reached almost every village in the country. The aim should not be to create a parallel system of private schools and the existing system needs new life so that more disadvantaged children get access to decent education, he said.

Mr. Premji shared his thoughts on issues that require attention for improving school education. Firstly, the government should strongly and visibly reaffirm the importance of quality public education since it is foundational to democracy. The most developed nations have invested in developing a strong public education system as they find it critical to the functioning of a democratic society, he said.

Despite having excellent policies and intentions, their execution on ground was very weak, and this needs to be looked at, he said.

New education policy

Observing that change in education takes a very long time and therefore priorities should not change quite often, Mr. Premji felt that the new education policy that the government is working on could provide a framework for this sustained effort for the next decade.

Lamenting over the quality of teacher education, Mr. Premji said the teacher education system, including B.Ed. and D.Ed. colleges, was crucial for developing good teachers.

Unfortunately, over 16,000-odd teacher education colleges were more of commercial institutes with no real interest in education. They were often owned by powerful people, who resist attempts at change. Reforming the system will be a daunting challenge and will take political will, commitment and courage. Unless this is addressed, school education will not improve for a long time, he. explained.

In his talk, Mr. Premji cited that there have been many examples of good teacher education institutions, including the Regional Institute of Education in Mysuru.

He stressed on capacity building of teachers, and suggested revamping cluster and block resource centres and 600-plus District Institutes for Educational Training (DIET) to realise this. "If the above challenges have to be addressed, we need to invest more in public education," he said.

Former chief justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court B.A. Khan, Vice-Chancellor K.S. Rangappa, and Registrar C. Basavaraju were present.

Things to do

Strong and effective execution of education policies on ground

Shunning frequent change in priorities as change in education takes a long time

Improving teacher education system

Developing the capacity of existing teachers

Ensuring early education to children

[Source: The Hindu]

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