Indians like to believe that India has the best education system. However, the reality is quite different, especially as far as primary education is concerned.
Government runs schools in the country are in bad shape- lacking in quality teachers and basic infrastructure. What does one do? CII chief mentor Tarun Das recently wrote about the role Indian corporates could play in improving the elementary education in India. He believes that ‘if the top 200 corporates partner to support and improve 1000 schools each, 200,000 primary schools can be benefited and millions of children whose future need to be assured. This is doable. In fact,this must be done’.
There is lot of emphasis on having training and certified teachers – but does that really help? How about having teachers who just like to teach but have no formal training? Maybe they would make better teachers and one would have a more committed set. Of course, compensation to teachers is meagre and that is a biggest deterrent. Most school teachers have flourishing private tuitions business which run is run from homes after school hours.
According to John Kurien of Centre for Learning Resources, Pune , a study of 142 best English medium schools across 5 metros ( Bangalore, Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, New Delhi) reveals that Indian students fare poorly in applying knowledge to new situations. The best Indian schools have mediocre students.
School teaching in India needs improvement and change- now.
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