With the results of Class 10 and 12 finally out, the apprehension has ceased and parents and students are busy seeking admissions to the best courses and colleges they can find. Necessary arrangements, including college fees, have been done and students are about to enter the world of promised careers.
On the other side, there lie many shattered dreams and hopes of those students who couldn’t clear the exams and have more or less given up trying to transform their life through education.
Most of the youngsters who pursue education in the country do so accompanied by inefficient teaching faculty, poor infrastructure and acute shortage of educational counsellors. The situation worsens when these students are unable to cope up with the studies or clear the exams. The situation becomes even more complex in the rural pockets, where this phenomenon is largely confined to, and where there is a shortage of administrative and scientific faculty.
There is a great need for a paradigm shift in our curriculum & syllabus along with a proper evaluation procedure. It should be the priority of the government to frame a system built on these criteria, besides ensuring proper implementation and monitoring.
Many colleges and universities graciously embrace those meritorious students joining their institution (with the motive of pulling in more students with greater capitation fees) whereas academically weaker students find no asylum except in useless institutions which further aggravates the whole situation.
This again creates a systematic segregation of students in to an “Academic Elite Class” and an “Uncompetitive” class, where the latter is considered more suitable for menial jobs. It has become customary to felicitate the toppers but quite often, no positive intervention is made to address the left-out students.
There is a great need for a paradigm shift in our curriculum & syllabus along with a proper evaluation procedure. It should be the priority of the government to frame a system built on these criteria, besides ensuring proper implementation and monitoring. A healthy government, educationist, policy maker and educational counsellor is necessary to save those young people who are also looking for a brighter future.
