Reforming Higher Education System in India
In the words of Queen Latifah,
"There is no profession more essential than that of an educator and it's
time for all of us to embrace and celebrate their importance and contribution
to America's children"
The role of a teacher in building
nation with sacrifice and humble contributions in various forms cannot be
neglected. A teacher shows the right path and forms future officers to lead a
nation further on higher side. A good teacher not only be an ideal in the minds
of his students but also inculcate good habits in them like manners,
etiquettes, grooming of personality etc. and these things are priceless.
The Government of India is taking
initiatives to improve the economic and financial position of the nation. In
last article, we studied how "Energy Deficit to Energy Surplus"
initiatives bringing positive changes in the economic position of nation.
National Education Policy:
Instead of implementation of National Education
Policy in India, the access to Free Education is still a dream for millions.
Why education should be free in cost? Do you think it is costly to be
literate?
The cost of any service or goods
depends upon demand and supply, the market determines the price as per the
Economics Theory of Marshall.
If anybody is skilled enough then it is
the result of his or her hard work, further if he has skills and abilities to
teach and train others to achieve their goals, utilizing their capacities and
capabilities then the person deserves to be paid. No doubt, for implementation
of National Education Policy, there is requirement of skilled humans who can
assemble the resources and introduce valuable products for Educating and
Training others. It's must to develop software, design curriculum, doing
research, put new ideas with innovation and all these are available in less
quantity than required. That's why price is there.
The generation of skilled youth has
become a challenge and the countries like India are suffering due to less
skilled youth. The old software, old teaching methods, old training practices
made the country hampered with huge unemployment which further increased the
level of poverty. The desktops with C, C++, Cobol, Pascal, Fortran languages
and with old software can easily be found in the colleges and institutes of
higher education. It is must to improve the infrastructure to develop new
skills in the students of higher education. The new era of technology including
new app development languages like Phylon and Ruby; required to be made
available for adopting new-age technology to compete the Multinational
companies.
Required change in Higher Education:
In India, the
University Grants Commission (UGC) and Ministry of Human Resource Development
(MoHRD) are constantly bringing change in the Higher Education System to make
it as per the needs of the industries. The emphasis is upon revising the
curriculum of courses by making it learning outcome based. How higher education
differ from the school education? At present, there is not much difference
because at both places, the students are reading and learning the prescribed
syllabus and then giving examinations to qualify. It is required to innovate
the work of students reading and learning after the school classes i.e. 12th known
as senior secondary.
Why placements are not more and how to produce talent?:
It is required to
bring digital learning platforms in the higher education system which is
possible by using information technology. The YouTube and other channels of
interactive video lectures are already in use and the students are watching
videos to learn and develop their skills. The industries are also waiting for
their prospective officers to run their organizations with better skills and
the universities are being inspired to produce more talented students who can
easily be grabbed by the human resource managers working in companies. The
placement of students is a prime concern for all universities, business
schools, and polytechnic institutions; and the placement can only be possible
if the students are equipped with the required skills as identified by the
industrialists. They know their requirement and the universities should know
the curriculum to be taught for meeting the requirements of the industries,
companies who are the prospective employers.
Creating industry-friendly environment at institutions:
Just making change in
syllabus will not work smoothly, it is required to bring the environment of
industries and companies inside the universities to train the students after
completing the courses or degrees.
The students should
take Education as a zeal for making life successful. Whatever work is being
done either small or big; the success of the work depends upon the desire
toward that work and devotion for learning. Nobody is perfect and doing work is
a step towards perfection by attaining knowledge and skills. If a person
doesn't stubborn and he is ready to learn from the failures, then success can
be guaranteed provided efforts are put even after the happening of failures.
Digital Transformation in Higher Education:
It’s time to promote digital learning and there are institutions which are really embracing digital learning, a holistic approach to digital transformation. It is not only online teaching rather prefect module to ensure learning among the students. It is required to implement the online teaching with activities and personalization to inculcate the skills to perform better. To improve employability of the students, it is must to create online job portals by the Higher Education Institutions and also provide career counselling to the pass-out students, it will improve the chances of employability and the students’ admission will also increase in the institutions. The digitally mature Schools, Colleges, Universities, and Institutions can change the entire picture of India and other developing economies.
Introduce the following in the Higher Education Institutions:
(i)
Digitally integrated Marketing, (ii) Recruitment Strategy with agreements with
the Manufacturing, Industrial, and Service Sector Companies, (iii) Use of
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) units, (iv) Records Management of
Students scoring high and teachers producing talent, (v) Digital Social Marketing
Strategies for promotion of the activities.
