Educational System of Modern India ! – An Evaluative Analysis

Educational System of Modern India ! – An Evaluative Analysis

Our country “India”, has a very long and storied and a rather rich history of educational impartation, with the legendary Nalanda. Takshashila and Vikramshila Universities attesting to the deep and venerable regard held by the Ancient Indians for education.

Nowadays, given the emergence and rapid ascent of several Knowledge-based industries such as Information Technology , Communications , Software services, Biotech, Avionics amongst many others has significantly increased the need to ensure the teaching, training and the targeted evaluation of the country’s many millions of students that’re currently enrolled Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Diploma courses.

As India is one of World’s few remaining big economies of scale that’re still possessing a highly favourable demographic structure, in fact, it has the largest number of people below the age of 25, out of and amongst all the world’s countries.

In order to ensure the country is actually able to reap the potential economic and developmental benefits that’re bequeathed to it (due to the extremely healthy and advantageous demographic structure it currently possess), can be acquired and consolidated in the next few decades on the back of the nation’s demographic strength, certain extremely crucial improvements, upgradations and extensions are sorely needed.

The main areas in which the above-emphasized improvements (in the education sector) are desperately needed area as follows –

  1. GREATER FOCUS ON AND INCLUSION OF TECHNOLOGY – As we’re currently going through the Fourth Industrial Revolution , technology along with all its assorted fields and dimensions needs to be accorded the foremost priority. Therefore, students of all stages need to be taught trained, and practically explained about the various concepts and applications that are vital for securing tech skills-requiring jobs.
  2. FURTHER UPGRADATION OF MOSTLY OBSELETE CURRICULUM – In most schools, the Curriculum mostly focuses on General Education, which does not adequately prepare students for real life and the challenges that come with it. So to improve upon the above-mentioned situation , prevailing International standards of Education must be taken into due consideration, both in regards to Secondary education and also the different stages of Higher Education to ensure that Indian students and pupils can confidently compete in examinations and forums. 
  3. INCREASED EMPHASIS ON MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS – Keeping in view ,the rise of Multi-disciplinary demanding jobs and professions nowadays Training programs at all levels ( especially Undergraduate programs) should and must be made Inter-disciplinary by redesigning their Curriculum. An upgraded Curriculum structure should perhaps include a core curriculum alongside 1 or 2 other areas of subject/skill specialization focused courses, depending upon the specific needs and requirements.
  4. OVERHAULING THE EVALUATIVE ASSESSMENT METHODS OF INDIAN EDUCATION – In place of evaluating pupils, solely on the basis of the marks that they’ve secured in a few hours examination. The focused dimensions of Education, should and must necessarily be much wider, focusing on the student’s level of
    Classroom-participation, his/her communication skills, the level and quality of  his/her projects, his her degree of participation in co-curricular activities, amongst many other grounds of evaluative criterion besides ofcourse, those regular several hours long examinations Such an evaluation pattern would in all likelihood be better- describing of each and every child in question, besides being a much much more nuanced and holistic appraisal medium, in its ultimate assessment.
  5. THE NEED FOR GREATER GOVERNMENTAL PRIORITIZATION OF EDUCATION – Of late, several schemes have been launched by the government that’re aimed towards improving the level of Education at all levels. Those schemes include but are not limited to, the “Sarvashiksha Abhiyan” at the Primary level the “Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan “and the” Scheme for Vocational Training and Education at the Higher Education level , to name a few The National governornment has also set up the RUSA (Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan), which is a CSS (Centrally Sponsored Scheme), that’s aimed at providing strategic funding to eligible Higher Education instutions that come within the jurisdiction of the State governments.

India, our great nation is brimming with an incalculable amount of Human potential, that’s yet untapped. As the esteemed ” Sydney J Harris ” had so rightly quoted, that the whole purpose of education is to turn Mirrors into Windows”, therefore in keeping up with the spirit of his far-sighted and deeply insightful statement, the government (at all levels), nascent as well as established Educational institutions, Civil Society groups, hard working innovation-fostering entrepreneurs ,industry experts and researchers from all relevant fields and the many millions of teachers (of all levels and categories throughout the country ) ought to all do their Sacred National duty by further expanding, bettering and nurturing the country’s educational system.

For if we really aspire to make the 21st Century an Indian Century, (with India being amongst the World’s foremost States, if not the foremost State) then it’s vitally important for the nation to focus, promote, and necessarily excel at education, as it’s the only way to realistically realise the above-mentioned 21st Century aspiration of than 1.4 Billion plus minds.

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  1. Well researched, presented and argued. Writing like old wine, keeps getting better with age, so keep writing. Best wishes!

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