Re: [MTC Global] [Weekend Big Discussion-II] What do you believe to be the biggest issue facing us today in public education that is resulting in many of our schools/colleges to be labeled as low performing?

Dear Sir, 

In Higher Education, I think, the teaching fraternity collectively is the main issue. We have become passive regulation takers rather than regulation influencers. There has to be positive academic activism based on sound intellectual research. There is need to come together to drive collective enlightened self interest through positive social capital. Academicians have to address what the different stakeholders expect of then and accountability to the society. And not wait for regulators to tell them. 

In fact this is where accreditation started elsewhere (self regulation that provides freedoms to do the right things). Most of the academic groupings we have today in India, as far as I know, emerged to counter some legislation or the other rather than to achieve higher level ideals. We have  to restore academia to higher levels of commitment to transformational ideas and ideals whereby other sectors (political and bureaucratic leadership) would sit up and listen to them.     

For this to happen academicians have to take PhD and other research work seriously. The work of academicians is to do high level abstraction, re-search to see things anew, all while being critical of existing order of things. Is this sacred covenant being even attempted today by mainstream academic community?  

There is no substitute for academicians to be anything other than higher-idea entrepreneurs that they honestly practice, profess and through students propagate.  

 

Thank you, Dear Professor Bholanath Dutta, for this opportunity to air one's views. 

No malice meant please.  

Best regards 

Dr. K. Sankaran  

+ 91 9740372559

On Sat, Apr 8, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Prof. Bholanath Dutta <bnath.dutta@gmail.com> wrote:

What do you believe to be the biggest issue facing us today in public education that is resulting in many of our schools / colleges to be labeled as low performing?

We will consolidate the views and come out with a white paper on the same.

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