Indian Education Policy: Seriously We Need To Change it

Education is the key of success to the youthful developing country like India to be categorize in developed country.

Today, when it is being said of self-reliant India (Atmanirbhar Bharat), we need to know how helpful our education policy will prove to be and what are the important changes that are still needed and which will make us self-reliant with educational reforms.

Demography

India is 2nd most populated country nearly 1.4 Billion people with 65% youth . In India 50% population is below the age of 25 means most of them should be in school or college so if they get good educational then they can transform the world the kind of role what China did in last generation could be us to next .

Recent Global studies

According to World educational index 2015-2016 India stand at 112th position worldwide in education and global reports comes out in 2019 that India stand at 149th position when we talks  about the percentage of the GDP uses in educational sectors that is 3% .        According to the prestigious Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) world University ranking only three Indian universities IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi & IISc-Bangalore in 200 list .

Major issues and challenges in Indian education sector

• Enrollment: In primary education 95% children goes to school, In secondary the percentage goes down to 70% but the real issue is in higher education the percentage goes to 25% that’s very low in comparatively with USA, China and other countries.
• Quality, Infrastructure and faculty: Indian education system basically higher education is suffering from lack of employability, rote learning, lack of skill development, low scope of creativity and biased nature with the subjects like Art, Ethics, and more subjects except (mathematics, science, economics, engineering and Biology) .
  In the country poor Infrastructure is another challenge is due to budget deficit, corruption and low political will. In country the average teacher student ratio is about 1:30 that is too high. Even in rural area the ratio becomes 1:40 . The availability of University or institution in country as per 100k students varies between 7 to 56.
• Accreditation & Regulatory issues: Our education system is bribed, lots of institutes are running without proper accreditation as per data provided by NAAC, as of June 2010, not even 25% of higher education institutions are accredited. Only 30% Universities and 40% institutions were found to be the level ‘A’ certified.
• The management of the institutions are compromised due to lack of transparency, centralisation, political involvement, lack of accountability & professionalism. As result no of college increases and the burden of administration function over universities significantly increases that cause the dilution of academic and research.

Positive sides of Indian education, Government efforts & Solutions

After the 1947 our educational graph is rising too fast whether its about literacy rate, quality of education, world class institutions or technological uses. Our demography is also a positive side.

Governments are taking good steps like skill India projects, start-up India, make in India but government should have to ensure the transparency and trying to reach out to the unreached.

A lot of changes require in the education policy to upgrade the mindset of the students towards entrepreneurship curriculum, empathy, critical analysis and creativity.

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ~Margaret Mead