For better education: 1. Delink mid day meals from schools 2. Raise the honour of teachers through high salary and independent teacher recruitment and development authority 3. Introduce on job teacher training system 4. Institutionalize development of teaching aids and feedback system in teaching learning in schools and colleges. 5. Develop resource accountability in academic investments 6. Introduction of talent based special training for school kids 7. Innovations and creativity exhibition, admiration and support scheme 8. Marketing of innovative academic products from school and colleges 9. Apoliticalisation of teaching profession and schools (expulsion of political party members from managing bodies of academic institutions) 10. Elimination of academic hypocracy 11. Control on academic business (imposition of defined corporate responsibilities on private academic institutions) 12. Transparency on educational information and elimination of pseudo results (many private school admit more students in lower classes and allow very limited students to appear school finals through eliminations in classes to publicise higher % of better results). 13. Uniform methodology for evaluating school performances and ranking of schools 14. Assigning qualification for the education ministers 15. Enhancing the R&D and statistical wing in the ministry of education 16. Introducing self appraisal and self evaluation schemes for school and college teachers 17. Decentralized text book development system for text books for lower classes 18. Introduction of schemes for students exposure to developments (more travel grants, museum and industrial and historical excursion) 19. Enhancement of language and expression learning through mobile language workshop (vernacular and English) 20. Sports and craftsmanship development initiatives.
etc. Khanin ************************************* Dr. Khanindra Pathak, PhD(London) Professor Department of Mining Engineering IIT Kharagpur Kharagpur - 721 302 India Phone: +91-3222-283722 On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 11:07 AM, dhiraj goswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Baruah, > > I agree with you that the past performance/behavior does not predict the > future trend. However it would be naive to state that none of the good > quality institutions will be in India 20 years from now. I understand the > core of some of these institutions having involved in sponsoring and > mentoring some of the research activities. So I will not make a generic > prediction. > > BTW, let's raise the fundamental question. What are we doing with basic > education up to class X? The high school dropout rate in India is about 93%. > It would be wise to think about how to educate a regular kid in India so > that he or she can earn his or her livelihood. I would say teaching someone > how to cut a bevel gear using a milling machine would be very useful in that > context. Let's get real here by removing our academic elite hat. We can > count on number of people doing so called ground breaking research. The > number would be less than one percent. About 98% of people do grant work > leaving asides executives. We need to focus on making this major section of > the population productive through good eduction in high schools and > colleges. > > Regards, > Dhiraj > > --- On Sun, 10/26/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [asom] Negative mention about Ghy in article > To: [email protected] > Date: Sunday, October 26, 2008, 6:46 PM > > There is no doubt that some places in India have done phenomenal > work while excelling in teaching. But the issue is how to build > institutional cultures where good work can happen and the next > generation can take it from there. I suspect that you can for > instance, pick out a few institutions in the world doing good quality > work today and predict that 20 years from now say 50 Nobel prizes will go > to 50 of those people, wherever they are. You cannot say who would be the > individuals, but it would be safe to predict that they will be among the > people from those institutions. I doubt if any of those institutions will be > in India. Though there will be some Indians and some of them are likely to > be at those institutions. You think this thought experiment is right? I > think geniuses are not born they are made. We should not be talking about > world-class institutions loosely without considering such issues. > > Good wishes, > > SB
