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Women Literacy and Empowerment: A Review
Education is most important for the overall development of a country. With regard to health and social awareness, education plays a vital role. In our Indian culture generally, women manage the house business, day-to-day economic affairs, and control the family budget.

In this sense, if they are educated they would be able to manage the home budget more efficiently which finally affects their economic growth and overall development. They can participate and contribute to the democratic process and various government schemes as well which would finally raise the graph of national development.

Hence we need to have more attention on women’s literacy programs and their education. Education can bring a lot of change and happiness in their life. Women’s literacy is the need of the hour for women empowerment actually.

It is important to understand the present form of the nonformal education system in our country where a large number of adults especially women are unable to read and write. They do not find time to go to school because of various reasons and become disadvantaged by government or private education systems.

This is a fact that a large number of illiterate populations belong to the women’s sector that is un-privileged from basic education. The reason behind this may be many but practically these are because of the following;

Daily wage worker goes to work in the morning, come back home in the evening, and thereafter miss the education opportunity. Women have other family responsibilities to take care of their children and family members. In the early morning they wake up and start their homework first; cleaning, dishwashing, cooking for children and family members and then going somewhere else for their daily job either for farming or any job nearby. In the evening after coming back home again they have to go through the same exercise.

So there is a big challenge for them when they would attend school, even if they are interested in learning. Suppose, they find even two hrs leisure time and which could be utilized for learning purposes but the question arises that they cannot leave their job because they need food to survive in life and if they do not do their daily wage job and routine home works, the family will not accept them (women).

Women in our Indian society and culture have to take on family responsibilities; hence basic schooling is ignored. This is the biggest issue and reason for an increased number of women illiteracy in India. Not only is this, but women’s illiteracy also increases many problems in society for which further research is required.

Important areas we need to focus on seriously;

Literacy

To overcome the situation where women need to be empowered it is most important that they should be literate first. Literacy is the first step that would make a woman powerful in terms of their prosperity and happy life. Without education, it is difficult for them to understand the family management system. Family management is such an important factor that affects women’s empowerment.

Family Management System

A family management system (FMS) is a kind of self-learning process in which a woman learn theoretically as well as practically to manage the entire home management.

In this step general management, financial management, health management, social management, political management, behavior science, etc, all are somehow as in the part of daily routine life a woman has to go through and learn the real issues, their solutions, and finally a refined knowledge is gained which makes a family happy.

A happy family is the aim of the Family Management system. If the family is happy, the whole purpose of women’s empowerment is served. For this again education is the key issue for women.

Health Awareness

Health education for women empowerment is known as one of the important factors. An educated woman may have more awareness of different types of health issues and their remedies, precautions, vaccinations, etc.

Economic development is concerned with these issues. Generally, it has been seen that illiterate persons are not keeping themselves abreast of health issues and because of this reason suddenly they face health problems and spend a huge amount of saved money on the treatment of different diseases.

In many cases, they borrow loans from local businessmen and sell their properties arrange from some other sources. It is a very painful exercise in urgent medical situations and for this, a heavy cost is put on the family head. Finally, the economic condition of the family is affected. An educated man or woman may avoid this unwanted financial burden.

Social Awareness

Illiteracy enhances social problems, social bye cuts, and differences among people in society. A small issue even takes a vast and serious form of the social problem which finally defaces the value in society and disturbs the whole chain of social life, culture, and economic growth; hence social awareness is one of the important issues for women empowerment in India. But lack of education again is not possible.

Though there are Government Schemes for Adult Education Programs I feel the way of its implementation and method of teaching may not be proper therefore the desired rate of literacy is achieved in India. India needs a different type of literacy program model which could be technology-based now.

Lessons and methods of teaching should be technology-based and more graphics-enabled systems. The timing for learning classless for adults should be flexible according to their convenience because they are daily wage workers. The new literacy training model /program must consider the following issues/points while designing the model;
1. Management issues
2. Cost of expenditures
3. Monitoring problem
4. Ownership issues
5. Social issues for women learners
6. Learners’ issues- do not come to school during day time or evening because they go for a job anywhere or in the evening work for their house responsibilities.
7. Maintenance issue.
8. Security issues
9. Safety issues.
10. Easy to learn
11. Easy to operate
12. Easy to manage
13. Flexible timing
14. Job opportunities
15. Free from bureaucracy
16. Easy to run by anyone
17. Free from complications like bank accounts, funds, lease, rent, etc.
18. Easy lesson
19. Easy model discovered by us
20. Open for all groups of males and females.
India is a fast developing country where women’s participation cannot be ignored, therefore it is also paramount important that they must be educated. Without education, they are not able to participate in the democratic process and various government schemes. The Government should take appropriate and necessary steps to educate all women in the country; it would be the biggest contribution to society and nation-building.

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Dr. M.K. Vajpayee

Vice-Chancellor, Capital University
Former Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Ansal University
Has around 26 years of experience in the education system, academic planning & development, etc.
April 29, 2020
Why Academics Should Not Panic For Online Education In This Pandemic?

Worldwide pandemic COVID19 led to sudden closure in the country bringing everything at a halt. The screeching stoppage of academic activities has created ripples in the education sector and its’ ancillary sectors.

The buzz word of online education started ringing across the nation and wide-ranging activities nucleated around it. The concern for offering education to students was seen as the opportunity by those offering technological solutions for carrying out online teaching.

There has been a visible upsurge in the usage of platforms for real-time interaction and the same is being capitalized to increase their net worth in a short span of COVID-19 lockdown, as evident from different news items.

Also, there have been several groups working to evolve a suitable strategy to handle this disruption of on-campus education due to lockdown. Despite the available cushion period of summer vacations, the academic governance has been by and large intending to accomplish the online teaching to ensure that there is the minimum impact of this disruption and the online teaching-learning has rolled on.

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Looking upon the various news reporting about the difficulties faced in online education, the reasons for the haste in venturing into online education without assessing the preparedness for it at the ends of students and teachers are incomprehensible.

Utopian school of thought seems to be ignoring the prevalent digital divide at such time when the students are reeling under anxiety, future uncertainties due to lockdown, and the life-risking consequences of the pandemic.

There is ample evidence of the unavailability of physical resources like smartphones, laptops, computers and significantly varying internet connectivity across the country. The inadequacy of IT facilities due to the poor economic condition of one’s family should not make the student suffer as it may emanate frustration and helplessness.

At the same time, the teaching community not being at their workplaces also has the limitation of having the requisite hardware and internet data availability at home due to their own social and financial commitments.

The feasibility assessment was inevitably required before launching the online teaching-learning process at different levels. The socio-economic conditions, internet access, availability of IT hardware, electricity, anxiety-free state of mind, free environment, absence of any uncertainty, etc. are the essential contributors to the success of online learning.

Another pertinent issue of the quality of learning by the students in the online mode, though embedded with great subjectivity necessitates the honest feedback system before considering such online teaching exercises to substitute the on-campus teaching.

Theoretical courses and laboratory-based courses have different requirements of the mentoring which may not be possible sufficiently in the distance mode. The first-hand experience of the online classes using the available video-conferencing platform shows that there are a lot of distractions in the unstructured video conferencing classroom sessions devoid of any proctoring.

Acts of indiscipline, frequent disconnections, no check on the attentiveness, participation, data transmission losses, varying technology levels in equipment used at receiver/transmitter ends, etc. are quite visible in such ad-hoc arrangements for online classes that embarrass the teacher(s) and the students alike.

Also, such breaches are likely to have long term adverse implications on the institutional discipline and student-teacher relationships when they will get back to their campuses.

The discussions around for having online laboratory classes are also in progress. This virtualization of laboratory classes is going to be much more vulnerable from the quality perspective, and such classes may be just sufficing the completion of the course but will not add much value in the student learning. The absence of hands-on practice and ‘learning by doing’ will mar the quality of education. The learning levels of students are likely to be sacrificed in such virtualization.

Teachers can forecast the level of learning that is likely to be there in such remote teaching in respective courses should be made to participate in decision making. The academic governance should hear them concerning the subjects/courses taught by them before deciding to replace the on-campus teaching with online teaching in the time of distress.

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In an effort to complete the session, the online examinations are also contemplated in many institutions despite knowing the limitations of digital connectivity. The online examination for assessing the learning level of the students located at their places has several issues about its fairness and integrity due to student end environment being not in control.

Further, the inability to check the cheating will depress the sizeable number of students and the whole examination process gets vitiated. The students appearing in online examinations from home can not be compared with the structured online examinations in which students appear at sacrosanct examination centers with proctorial arrangements. The credibility of the regular course examinations should not be compromised at any cost.

Undoubtedly, certain programs are being offered in distance mode of education in the country, but the same should not be the premise for the online education in this lockdown period as the qualitative distinctions between the two modes of education do not need any elaboration.

Advocacy for the online education to substitute the prescribed teaching-learning process of the on-campus mode should be based on the holistic consideration of the facilities with students & teachers as well as the possible learning and its quality.

The push by the developers of technological inputs for online education of remotely located students through learning management systems, effective interaction platforms, learning resource developments, real-time sharing, etc. should not be the driver for the enforcement of online teaching exercise in this period of temporary disruption.

Accolades to the Government for nucleating the thinking for creating provisions for having a common platform for digital interactions between students and teachers.

Keeping aside the fascination of institutional governance running ahead in the race to use digital platforms, the considered view of all teachers in any institution from the quality of education point of view should decide whether it is worth going for such a teaching-learning process or not.

However, the availability of digital learning resources and online interaction platforms should be there to supplement the regular on-campus teaching-learning process duly enabled by the institution admitting the students.

Efforts to make online teaching as a substitute for on-campus teaching is likely to be detrimental to the extent of learning and the quality of education along with restricting the overall development of students through interaction with peers in the present period of temporary disruption which has its stresses to be taken care by every stakeholder.

Academics should not panic in a pandemic as it’s tunnel vision will not be good for the learner community. Quality, Access, and Equity should not be compromised in Academics.

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April 28, 2020
Challenges Faced In Accreditation Of Higher Education Institutes

Today, higher education faces more challenges and questions about its performance especially when it to accreditation

Because of more noteworthy requests from citizens, who need to be certain the specialists that treat them, the architects that assemble their urban communities and the scholastics that propose their arrangements are acceptable; the public sector, compelled to dole out with a given criteria resources for grants, credits, and financial incentives; the very students as shoppers; and the labor market, searching for benchmarks to fuse graduates into their positions.

It is currently standard to confront broad accreditation forms taken by national and worldwide offices to survey the quality of institutions, research, programs, and majors.

Below are some of the common challenges faced by higher education institutes in the accreditation process:

Expenses

A quality affirmation process is just advantageous if its advantages surpass its costs, both monetarily and as far as their institutional limit. A procedure of accreditation is long and includes the whole institution, so the ventures must be viewed as a major aspect of a long haul improvement.

Unite The Whole Institution

Various faculties, centers, and academic units will in general work autonomously from the college’s most noteworthy authorities.

Even though they may have arranged a crucial, vision and a set of common practices, arranging a broad authoritative and scholarly body of a given institution under a similar structure and the executives model – which can incorporate wiping out individual offices to help interdisciplinary joint effort – requires a long procedure of correspondence.

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In addition to the fact that it involves lasting faculty, educators and colleagues who work in isolation, and a student body who is as yet changing following their entrance into higher education.

Simultaneously, HR, money, instructing, and research are units that ordinarily work in segregation. As an accreditation procedure searches for coordination, to accomplish cooperation can take some time.

For example, the Catalonian Agency of Quality says than numerous European higher education institutions need clear useful lines to build up a solid quality based authoritative culture.

Combine Self-Assessment And Guideline Culture

In a pattern of lasting improvement, accreditation programs advance the improvement of steady execution reports and curricular enhancements.

Hence, responsibility can turn into an additional weight for staff and educators, who must put a significant sum time in the board obligations.

Although these issues advance the age of scholarly networks, those institutions with detached ventures can be undermined with the spread of pointers that are in opposition to a specific personnel’s feeling of freedom.

Institutional Self-Rule

The procedure itself can scrutinize how an institution characterizes its vision, crucial, objectives. A college established and made under a lot of standards and qualities, just as a particular vision of society can consider this to be updated as a risk to the very mainstays of its reality.

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To adjust an educational structure in self-assessment, institutions must glance at a troublesome equalization been institutionalization and separation, to keep mirroring their one of a kind feeling of personality.

Auditing Versus Lasting Improvement

Many can stir up an accreditation with a standard audit, evaluating and guaranteeing the great utilization of money related resources and the responsibility of their administration.

A higher education accreditation is an escalated catalyzer of inner changes, as it hopes to confirm models that are to be checked continually.

With these challenges, it is critical to plan ahead of time an institution for accreditation, to discuss, and advance the whole institution about the standards of a given quality appraisal and how it will improve their work specifically.

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March 14, 2020
Governor Affirms KTU’s Decision On Second Revaluation

Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, who led consultation on Saturday to evaluate the quarrelsome choice of the A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technological University (KTU) to lead a second revaluation for a previous student, found a center ground in the issue by affirming the college’s choice, even while censuring the way it had embraced.

Mr. Khan, who assembled a two-hour-long hearing at Raj Bhavan in his ability as the Chancellor of the college, saw that Vice-Chancellor M.S. Rajasree was well inside her statutory forces to receive ‘crisis’ choices for certified cases if they were affirmed by statutory specialists, for example, the Board of Governors.

‘Praiseworthy case’

While underwriting the college’s move-in perspective on the ‘commendable case,’ the Governor criticized its ‘failure to protect the self-governance of the establishment.’

He additionally emphasized his dissatisfaction with the act of adalats being sorted out by either the Minister or the legislature in issues identifying with universities.

Guiding the Vice-Chancellor to guarantee that ‘her home is all together,’ Mr. Khan called for alert against outside obstruction inconsistent with the independence of universities.

The higher education area didn’t work in a way it preferably should, the Governor stated, including that the legislatures must assume no job in the working of such organizations.

Other than the Vice-Chancellor and the previous student, the KTU Registrar, Deans, Syndicate individuals, Save University Campaign panel director R.S. Sasikumar, secretary M. Shajar Khan and legal advisors speaking to either party took part in the meeting.

The consultation has approached the premise of an objection put together by the Save University Campaign board which had blamed the college for abusing standards by acting at the command of Higher Education Minister K.T. Jaleel. While gathering an adalat, the Minister had purportedly requested the college authorities to revalue for the second time an answer content of a previous BTech student, in spite of the Controller of Examinations turning down the student’s solicitation prior.

Such issues would need to have alluded to the Chancellor if there was a distinction of sentiment among such boards, he stated, as indicated by sources aware of the conversations.

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February 4, 2020
Two-day Seminar Held In Mathura On Role Of Academic Audit In Higher Education

A two-day national seminar on “Job of scholastic and managerial review in accomplishing quality greatness in higher education institutions,” was sorted out by RCA Girls (PG) College, Mathura on January 30 and 31.

“Education, indeed, is for giving information, strengthening, scholarly advancement, updating aptitudes and improving abilities of the understudy,” he said.

The teacher with experience of leading scholastic and authoritative audit (AAA) in excess of 160 colleges tended to the representatives of the seminar through the webcast.

The educator conveyed his talk through video-gathering inferable from his pre-occupation in some other program, Preeti Johari, college head and seminar executive said.

Leading scholarly and regulatory review is an apparatus utilized by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) to assess and authorize universities and colleges, she included.

In his talk, Balasubramanian said IQAC (inner quality confirmation cell) ought to turn into a significant piece of the education framework in higher education as it is intended to move in the direction of acknowledgment of objectives of value improvement and sustenance.

Since accomplishing scholarly greatness in higher education is a need of the administration and the University Grants Commission, confirmation by NAAC by 2024 has been made mandatory for institutions bestowing higher education, he called attention to.

Academic And Administrative Audit

As indicated by Balasubramanian, scholastic review and regulatory review are two significant components of value upgrade that are correlative to one another.

As there is no particular approach for the quality upgrade to affirm the standards of NACC, each establishment needs to develop its own philosophy for constant subjective improvement, he said.

Great practices that are embraced by acceptable institutions might be consolidated without digressing from the principal objective, he opined.

Need For External Auditors

Conveying his keynote address, Professor Satyasheel from MNNIT, Allahabad, who has occupied with a scholastic review of barely any universities, worried about the requirement for utilizing outside inspectors to survey and evaluate scholarly exercises of an organization.

He additionally clarified different advances/techniques, review benefits, weight on the item, center around goals of projects, utilization of helpful exercises, the appropriate methodology of addressing, medicinal measures, the focal point of research work, redesigning personnel, and so on to be embraced by the institutions for a quality upgrade.

This is what Professor Satyasheel from MNNIT, Allahabad stated:

“Displaying a reasonable model of such reviews including three segments – information, procedure and yield, institutions may select to take in academicians from esteemed institutions in their institutional advisory groups like IQAC to consolidate their experience for their advantage,” Satyasheel said.

Educator Pushpendra from Delhi University talked about a seven-point standard required for NAAC assessment/accreditation for higher educational institutions in the nation.

More than four dozen papers by prominent educationists including K Kanaujia, part Ucchatar Shiksha Seva Ayog (Higher Education Service Commission), Shobha Pathak, S K Saxena, Shikha Malviya, Swati, Himani Rawat, Ravi Sharma, Anil Saxena and Tripta Sharma, the convenor of the seminar Kalpana Vajpeyi said.

RCA Girls College has been given the status of guide college for helping different colleges who are required to get NAAC accreditation, head Johari said.

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February 3, 2020
Higher Education To Turn Out To Be ‘Progressively Experiential’ In 2020, Says Dr. Des Fitzgerald

The University of Limerick Dr. Des Fitzgerald president sees higher education keeping pace with progressions of innovation by showing the essentials.

We met with the University of Limerick (UL) president Dr. Des Fitzgerald at the end of 2019 to get some answers concerning his viewpoint for higher education at this Irish college in 2020.

He separates the eventual fate of education into two key patterns: substance and conveyance. “The substance will be unique, and afterward it will be conveyed. It will be conveyed in an alternate manner,” he said. “I believe it will be increasingly experiential.”

Fitzgerald sees programs as of now set up at the University of Limerick giving this sort of education, where understudies can encounter the working environment as a major aspect of their program of study, creating abilities past the auditorium and test settings.

“I believe that it will be more issue-based,” he said. “We’ve done that on several events [with] a few projects here, especially in our therapeutic school, and it functions admirably.”

“You can’t just teach people technology. You have to teach them the fundamental disciplines that underpin technology”
– DR DES FITZGERALD

Graduates with a work experience foundation will definitely be important to the business in the future, and Fitzgerald sees interest from organizations to aid this sort of education and preparing.

“The business is searching for more squares of time where understudies can go in and do a program instead of night school, for instance, and they need to be associated with the preparation themselves. So we’re seeing more projects like the one we do with the biotech organization Regeneron, where they give a portion of the education and preparing and we’re giving a piece of it too, and together we’re conveying a program that suits the educational needs yet in addition suits the necessities of the business.”

UL prepares to stamp 50 years in education

2020 will likewise stamp the start of activities illustrated in the University of Limerick’s UL@50 plan. Uncovered in November, Fitzgerald clarifies that this arrangement maps out exercises for the following five years, however, accept a lot more extensive point of view as, during this time, the college will stamp its 50th commemoration.

One of the key objectives in the methodology is to pull in 4,000 additional understudies in the following five years, to be based at the new UL City Campus. This grounds will be situated at the old Dunnes Stores working at Sarsfield Bridge.

“We’re chipping away at that right now. We’ve quite recently completed our grounds foundation system advancement plan and an arrangement for the improvement of various new structures on the grounds with a specific spotlight on creating education and preparing offices here at UL.”

The focal point of this city grounds, Fitzgerald stated, will be on “business innovation, businessmen who need to comprehend innovation better, and afterward business people who need to create innovation that could be consumed into business”.

The test for those accused of teaching the tech laborers of tomorrow is the pace at which innovation changes. To address that, however, Fitzgerald said you have to give understudies a strong establishing from which they can manufacture progressively explicit ranges of abilities.

“You can’t simply show individuals innovation. You need to show them the crucial orders that support innovation,” he said.

As far as it matters for its, UL has adjusted its projects to remember a course for computerized reasoning, created in a joint effort with industry. This is accessible as a low maintenance two-year program and the college has quite recently endorsed a one-year full-time program in man-made reasoning and AI, which will concentrate a great deal on the hypothesis behind these rising innovations.

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January 9, 2020
Students, Universities and International Academia
The top universities rankings employ about 10 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

1.) Teaching: the learning environment
2.) Research: volume, income and reputation
3.) Citations: research influence
4.) Industry income: innovation
5.) International outlook: staff, students and research
6.) Infrastructure: Labs,lecture halls,other building and hostels

Now here’s my answer, why they are much behind than world’s other universities!

When students enter IITs, they’ve already gone through at least 2 years(sometimes even 6 or 7 years)of grueling training in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Having cleared the highly competitive entrance exams, these students belong to the top 1-2% of their age-group, and are usually at their ‘peak’ in terms of smartness or IQ-levels. So at the time of joining, I would place IITians and freshmen at top USA universities at a similar footing or at a little higher footage because JEE questions are tougher than SAT questions.

Four years later, however, the story is quite different, and the average graduate student of those top universities is far ahead of the average IITian in terms of smartness, practical knowledge of one’s subject and the ability to apply the knowledge in real-life situations. This is because of a vast difference in the learning environment and student culture at Indian institutes and at MIT.

Indian students, on entering college, think the worst is behind them (remember, they’ve cleared one of the most competitive exams on the planet) and decide to slack off. This is also because of enormous societal pressure on these students to get into these premier institutes, as getting into an IIT is viewed as a guarantee of a successful life and a bright future.

Few students display the same level of sincerity as they did while preparing for the entrance tests, and fewer still make an attempt to actually learn and apply the material being taught.
- More importance to GPA and not on research:-
  There is a huge amount of hype and importance given to one’s GPA, as it is the sole method of measuring and evaluating one’s performance. This leads to a blind race to the top, where most students employ strategies aimed at maximizing one’s marks rather than maximizing one’s learning.
  Students resort to rote-learning techniques and other similar shortcuts in an attempt to cram as much as possible the night before an exam, and those able to do so in a short span of time are usually the ones at the top of the class. This same strategy is adopted to all courses irrespective of their nature, the result being that many students graduate with a sub-standard knowledge of their subject (not to mention poor soft-skills) and are branded ‘unemployable’.
- The Present condition of RESEARCH in India:-
  If you want to pursue research in India , you get a stipend of only 84k rs per year which is far below than any other decent job, This might be the reason why highly passionate IITians with great IQ levels do not opt for research.Some IITians who are really passionate about science join MIT ,Stanford or Oxford.
- Course structure:-
  The course structure at these institutes is also to blame, where many courses demand that you learn a large amount of information by rote and spill it out during the exam.
- Corruption:-
  According to Indian government they provide 10 lacs per head per year to IITs for research, extra curricular activities,high tech labs and technology but this hungry corrupt ministers and corrupt people put money in their pocket and actual 10 lacs don’t reach to institutes.
- Faculties:-
  Let’s compare professors of IITs with professors at world’s best institutes.
  MIT, Tim Berners Lee the one who invented Internet or CMU or Stanford,Robert Tarjan won a turing award.
  Or Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg the founder of facebook.
  Or Cornell,John Hopcraft is a turing award winner!!
  All IITs have to brag about is a lot of great alumni,but not many professors.
  Well this about great professors but some Profs are below average.And mainly focus on completing syllabus on time not on student’s learning. That’s also problem.
  Aren’t what professors what make an institution great?
- Resources:-
  Relatively (and pretty extremely) high resources per student capita as a result of endowments worth billions of dollars with relatively miniscule siphoning/corruption, a few more centuries of time and low population. And I will tell you budget of MIT or Berekely is less than all 16 IITs’ combined budget.
- Worthless experiments:-
  Practicals are done with little innovation or margin for change: Even if the students have some genuine idea for changing the parameter of a particular experiment, it is seldom carried out in practice by the lab technicians or encouraged by the professor.
  And the same old experiments that are being done since decades.
- Infrastructure:-
  Well about infrastructures of IITs one knows. how poor all labs and equipments are(IITB now just made new labs for first year lab courses)
- Less Emphasis on teamwork:-
  You cannot build a rocket, fly it to the moon, land a human and bring him safely back on your own. While creativity and analytics is of great importance, the most complex engineering projects in human history from the International Space Station to the Deepwater Horizon oil rig have critically hinged on team dynamics and leadership. Top schools in the US have a lot of team-based classwork and projects to instill these capabilities (e.g. communication, work splitting+combining, team diversity, etc.). The IITs, sailing on blind competition, severely hinder students’ abilities to cooperate and collaborate effectively outside of techfests, robotics competitions and the like.This is true of all universities in India.
No Academic Freedom

Here in India we don’t have that trend of “Be what you wanna be”. You can’t pursue what you wish to , but you pursue what you are asked to. The institutions in the west have a really flexible curriculum. And that is what makes them better than us.
1. No Research facility: This is where we have the major problem. We have a very less focus on research,which is because of a less qualified faculty (Compare faculties from our universities and the Nobel laureates. we can’t ), infrastructure, equipment’s.
2. Innovation: In my view foreign universities (i mean their students ) featuring in the global top 100 are Creative, Innovative, have an out of the box thinking. This Innovation comes from the above mentioned points, when we have an academic freedom and an outstanding research facility and flexible environment to apply our thoughts.While we focus more on employ-ability, western institutions give weight-age to noble laureates and research. We focus more getting jobs , they create jobs. Majority of students here, think of getting into Microsoft ,While the students there create Facebook, YouTube. That’s being Innovative!
3. Funding : Another major issue is that our Indian universities are far less funded than the west. The top 5-6 universities of west combined have a budget which is more than our education budget.
4. Top Management : The selection of the top management in our universities is much more political than on merit or expertise.
Although there has been an improvement in our education system in the last decade (but i think that’s very much little, and its nothing to rejoice about ! ).

What can be the solution

I think we are very much talented and can make wonders happen (which is why we see many Indians acquiring top roles in prestigious universities, companies & institutions), but only talent is not enough . It has to be exploited, Top universities like Harvard, CMU exploit their students. How ? By having World Class Professors and Institutions.
We need to build a community, a generation of researchers and innovators to compete with best institutions around the world.

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December 24, 2019