Re: [MTC Global] Sparks fly at debate on Tamil Nadu NEET viability

My take is:

1. There needs to be a proper coordination from primary to tertiary education.
2. Work out the costs that the nation is incurring: parents expenses, expenses of the body conducting the tests, travel, coaching, etc.
   
3. Coaching is a parallel economy in India and an important source of black money.
4. The Test approach is not the appropriate approach for quality education. The symptom remedy is worse than than the disease.
   
5. In mid80s there was neither GATE nor any other common tests. The seats for PG were distributed in proportion to the number of applications received from a university area. We had hardly any issue of quality education at least upto 30K.
   
6. Coaching classes are producing robots that can hardly work informatively for national development.
7. Those who can afford are found to be eligible for admission but this class is not even 1% of students-population. What about remaining 99% students? They are not useless but needs to be brought in the main flow for national prosperity.Adopt disruptive education policy.
   
8. Diligent, discipline and determination are required to set the things right the first time.
9. We have lost 72 years by experimenting on education with no fruitful outcome. Not a single Indian Institute could grab a position among 200 World Top Universities. Introspect seriously. Improve quality of education at all levels. CET, CAT, NEET, JEE, etc., can hardly help in this matter.
10. Build the strong and healthy education systems, all problems will vanish at a click! Change mind set of public and educationists. else, we have seen over a dozen of Education Committees, NAAC, NBA, and host of other regulatory bodies but no avail. Do not treat the symptoms, attack  the disease.
    

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From: Gandhi A mba@gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 01 May 2017 09:55:17
To: join_mtc@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [MTC Global] Sparks fly at debate on Tamil Nadu NEET viability

If we aim at excellence, aptitude and interest in a particulat discipline is a must.Mere marks scored somehow in +2 exams will surely not be a metric for this aptitude.

Why do we conduct CAT, JEE and many more such competitive tests?Only to ensure that the aspirants have the aptitude for that profession .

A candidate, without a liking,  or mental readiness to learn a particular course is pushed by peer pressure,parental decisions just because he/she has scored marks can not shine as a professional  though he/she may complete the degree.

If there is a filter at the time of admission,then we will end up with the best fit for the course.Now why do you think the surveys show the lowest employ ability of our students?Only because of the absence of an aptitude test.

So NEET sort of test is needed not only for medicine for every course, be it Engg, Arts, Commerce, Science, etc.

I agree with the opinion of Dr.Anbumani that our school education system has to be totally revamped and upgraded art par with CBSE syllabus.But who stopped Tamil Nadu Govt from upgrading the school education? We must do it on war footing basis.

If we accept this argument that our students don't get level playing filed, the same hold good for CAT, JEE, GMAT, UPSC ,NDA,IBPS and many such All India tests.

Can we tell the Government of India not to conduct these tests for Tamilnadu students and permit them easy entry?

So, what is needed is proactive action and not protective agenda.

Let us Design,compete,and Win.

Our children are capable to absorb .But our rulers , teachers, bureaucracy????

Gandhi 

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Amal Chaudhuri <amalendu.mba@gmail.com> wrote:

CHENNAI: The merits or otherwise of a countrywide National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) for admission to medical colleges has been a matter of dispute, but on a dull Sunday afternoon at the Chennai Trade Centrein Nandambakkam, the issue triggered a stormy debate.

Sparks flew as a panel of former Union health minister and MP Anbumani Ramadoss, former Madras high court judge D Hariprathanam and educationist Prince Gajendra Babu, all in favour of the Tamil Nadu government's opposition to NEET, emotionally countered arguments in favour of the test by former Anna University VC A Kalanithi, educationist T Rajagopalan and MCI member Dr L P Thangavelu.

When Justice Hariprathanam called the October 2002 TMA Pai Supreme Court judgment "the worst in 40 years" because "it laid the foundation for privatisation and increase in costs" of higher education, Rajagopalan stridently criticised his argument.

Anbumani said Tamil Nadu's samacheer kalvi syllabus was not of as high a grade as CBSE, so there was no basis for fair competition in the entrance test. Rural students and those who cannot afford coaching will be unable to crack NEET, he said.

"The justification of NEET is to improve the quality of doctors," Anbumani said. "[But] for that we need a bottom-up approach; the school syllabus has to be upgraded first. The current setup is top-down."

Imposing NEET on states like Tamil Nadu, he said, was akin to pushing an amputee to into a swimming competition.

Hariprathanam argued that NEET "would ensure that coaching centres replace educational institutions", and Gajendra Babu said NEET would rob a generation of the state's students of medical education.

Source: TOI

Amalendu, MBA

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