7 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Jestin Mandumpal

The American University of the Middle East

 Education refines thinking process, not merely injecting knowledge into the brains of students. Unfortunately latter is the foundation of education in most of the developing world. The prime consequence of poor quality education  is poor research activities, and pathetic development rate of the society. In order to improve the quality of education, the teachers must be properly trained. In most of the developing world the majority of teachers are poorly trained, which results in generating poor students who don't know how to think or how to learn. As they grow up, they become teachers who don't know how to learn and therefore how to teach!! Thus this cycle is repeated perpetually.

The developing countries should device a machinery which monitors nationwide the educational establishments . This move would be supported by development of novel teaching methodologies and effective evaluation process. For the time being, only China among the developing economies, is doing some thing meaningful in this direction!!

5 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

B.R. Rajeswara Rao

Central Institute of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants

 Dear Yogesh

RG says that there are 1148 questions on the topic education and 69151 followers. May be you can check some of the related threads.

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_variables_can_be_considered_for_building_an_education_model_in_India_that_explains_the_state_of_education_in_India_at_all_levels?_tpcectx=topic_detail&_trid=55488eadef97137c2c8b45aa_8

6 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Miranda Yeoh

SEAMEO RECSAM

Dear Yogesh, my country didn't do well in PISA 2012.  We were at the bottom third.  So the Education came up with Education Blueprint that aims to transform education from 2013 - 2025.  

'The Blueprint was developed with three specific objectives:

1. Understanding the current performance and challenges

of the Malaysian education system, with a focus on improving

access to education, raising standards (quality), closing

achievement gaps (equity), promoting unity amongst students,

and maximising system efficiency;

2. Establishing a clear vision and aspirations for individual

students and the education system as a whole over the next 13

years; and

3. Outlining a comprehensive transformation programme

for the system, including key changes to the Ministry

which will allow it to meet new demands and rising

expectations, and to ignite and support overall civil service

transformation.' (Eleven paradigm shifts were recommended to transform education...)

9 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

António Manuel Abreu Freire Diogo

University of Coimbra

I agree with Barbara: The way "how we deal with ourselves and with others" is fundamental, particularly in Basic Education. The best students are exactly and normally those who follow the basic rules of Education (and are more humble). There are still some privileged ones that do not need to care much with Education because they belong to privileged classes that protect each other? Exchange of interests may begin very early, even since the basic education? What is the role of the basic constitutional principles?

6 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Vijay K Jindal

Panjab University

@Yogesh your concern is very genuine. It is not that there was no aptitude in India in the years goneby for quality and in depth conceptual education and learning. But in recent years primarily due to the fat pay packages by MNC companies in India that the quality and concepts in education have taken a back seat. This is an era of mainly marketing and sales and management where emphasis on innovative and technical ideas is lacking. The students of the day hardly bother for deep devotional study. The youth in India has great potential but the demand of the modern times has made it so as to orient the youth to get quick financial results. If we could alter the culture which pays more money to educationists and researchers  who have a deeper understanding it will pay all round dividends. I had also drafted an article and will share when I locate it.

5 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Irina Mikhailovna Pechonkina

University of Jordan

Russia's Monthly Economic Developments (recession, oil prices, inflation, poverty, unemployment, wages)http://www.worldbank.org/en/country/russia/brief/monthly-economic-developments System approach to economic development allows to increase economic growth and quality of life (investments to human capital, low corruption, growth of GDP. GNP etc). lt brings the developed countries to a leading position in science, education, medicine etc.   

8 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Yes Dear Marcelo, Addressing the key issues accessibility, quality and equality as mentioned by you is a great challenge in the contemporary basic education system. 

@ Sergei - The example of K.D. Ushinsky, the founder of the 19th century Russian scientific pedagogy and his idea for educational reforms is quite impressive.

@ Renzo, George  & Nizar- Very rightly  said, No government is giving due priority to the education. As truly mentioned by  Dear Nizar, if the quality of education is not taken care of honestly and sincerely, one day, schools & universities may become the causes of unemployment by pouring the incompetent human resource.

4 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

Yes, Dear Mr Rao,

I had thanked Mr Yogesh for having touched a sore vein, which influences the most of us [1148 questions on the topic education and 69151 followers] at the surface. Until it is sore  at the bottom, we will continue to sit down and write [rather than reflect what] -I can do.

From each discussion  -even at  @1%, 11.48 agenda points should emerge., and we shall have more than 60 people to spearhead the necessary Change.

Some Changes are Small, and some Hard,

• Dejenie remarked The grand purpose of Education is to empower individuals enabling to create changes in their behaviors and lives and to transform society,, which we know (or read) is being denied?
• Jestin rightly says Education refines thinking process, not merely injecting knowledge into the brains of students. Yet, with Teachers, who do not themselves think, and emphasis on Marks, / Scores we have situations that befools (Sudev).
• Though Costa reminds of the wonderful accent on  Finish way of education transformation, Jestin points up to China for their LARGE thing meaningful endeavours. A New Transformation On Wrong Ethical & Value Base will produce only VIRUS.( Vital Information Resource [Right Education Stimulus ] Under Siege) (another low level Monkey Business RhESUS)
• Napoleon views such Monkey Business: The world's good and the bad are separated over "a universal platform because the world is polarised politically, ideologically and educationally on the basis of National interest and [utter selfishness and deceit]. Hindi-Chini Bhai Bhai for instance is a rhyme which may entertain, but the reminiscence of deceit is repeated quite often.  

The Quality Guru talked of the fore sight on Customer - to consummate the process by right Design,  right Initiatives and right People, such that they need not be inspected for failures (because of a Fool Proof DIP'ping). Should we need skills, 'we' produce them. This We includes DMAIC of 6 sigma (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve,Control -all actors, all causes, all tools, all solutions).   

But how many teachers know what skills are needed, (which I must acquire fast to enable myself to be competent to teach?).

And

The PROBLEM IS CHALLENGING, COMPLEX and REPLETE,. But I have promises to keep,. And miles to go before I sleep,..

5 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Rasbindu V. Mehta

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Dear Yogesh,

I think you mean 'basic Education' as the primary education. In fact in this as well as high school , and higher education we are lagging behind many countries. Reasons are many and mainly due to apathy of society as well as govenment. Whatever efforts are made to improve the situation seems to be only 'eye wash'. Only as individual we can try to contribute a little-but it will take a very long time to come forward.

6 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Well said Dear Jestin “Education refines thinking process, not merely injecting knowledge into the brains of students and poor quality education ultimately pathetic impact on research and development rate of the society”. In fact, lack of trained teachers is a major challenge in India and other parts of developing world, where institutions for teacher education are not adequately present. Schools are therefore forced to hire less qualified teachers, which in turn affects the quality of teaching.

You are right Dear Dejenie – “Education is infiltrated by people of wealth and politics who have made the system money making machines, abandoning its original virtue”. They are by no means centers of universal basic education. Majority of the children in schools are nowhere near their class-age appropriate learning levels.

Thanks a lot Dear Priyavrat for your striking comments. Your concern over quality education is genuine and your view on education social responsibility is noteworthy. Illiteracy among parents in rural India is another constraint. According to 2011 census, literacy in India is 74.04%. In other words, nearly a quarter of parents are still illiterate. Their motivation to send their child to school or to monitor their child in school is low. This is demonstrated through irregular student attendance, low learning levels, and dropouts. Also despite being the 4th largest economy (some reports put it as 3rd largest after U.S and China), it is home to one-third of the world’s poor who can’t afford to join school run education merchants and conditions of state run schools is hopeless.

7 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Ljubomir Jacić

Technical College Požarevac

Dear @Yogesh and friends, Raising Teachers Quality Around the World brings good ideas in terms of basic education improvement. Of course, teachers are one of the main components for such goal to be achieved. "All across the globe, countries are trying to improve education. Some countries are in the earlier stages of education development, mainly striving to expand access to elementary and lower secondary education and to ensure transmission of basic skills; in these nations, reformers are less concerned with the quality of the teaching force than with just getting enough teachers into classrooms. Other countries are entering the global knowledge economy and seeking to prepare their students with the complex, higher-order cognitive skills that economy demands; in these nations, the major focus is strengthening the quality and effectiveness of the teacher workforce (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD]..."

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/dec10/vol68/num04/Raising-Teacher-Quality-Around-the-World.aspx

6 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

Thanks Ljubomir, after a proficient conclusion by YOGESH.  We are reminded of the Teacher centric education, which can only be imparted by a teacher like you envisage.  or, many teachers at all the schools, aligned to a single software. of the education, so many followers of the question professed.

the exemplars of Indian Teacher centric education are hard to find. I think of Kautilya for one (of Chanakya fame).

Was Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta, who authored the ancient Indian political treatise, the Arthaśāstra (Economics),  a mentor of one student or vice versa is an another question on my mind, But he proved Guru can create Gold out of ashes. 

2 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan

Vel Tech - Technical University

B.Tech programs in India are highly respected around the world, and our students are often selected for M.S./M.Tech / PhD programmes abroad. That there is a good number of IIT / NIT/ BITS / Private Universities UG students selected for USA / Canada shows the quality of Indian education.

Best wishes, Sundar

2 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

I am tempted to share my poem written last year,  in a class, during when I was bored up by lecturer (colleague - another Director of RBGI - Rayat Bahra Group), listening to a lecture in a workshop:

The learning quality stimulus

The governance of education quality….

is critical, as it is spread over a wider domain;

yet, it is intentionally oriented to brevity

as if many in multifocal efforts in vein?

While Quality of quality education is pursued….

Consistently, chasing of objectives,

For achievement,

due fulfillment,

as if it were a commitment,

endured as a discipline,

which will develop a highest knowledge stance!

I cite here under - the episode from Mahabharatha

the conflict of Guru Drona, and

because of the unsolicited gains of his pain-data (Hindi daata - giver).

When his student (Eklavya) does well, in default,

better than another (Arjuna) who was deliberately taught

to excel as the topmost archer of the world.

in vein, and how he still managed the gain ;-)   (stanza added now)

Eklavya – who demonstrated acquiring essentials remotely,

solely, and quietly, yet securely,

In the guise of the Guru – Dronacharya,

Who had deprived him of any mentoring absolutely,

What had Eklavya acquired them all, totally!

Later, a jerk, that shook Arjuna, with pain….

led him to an awakening,

over a realization,

for that Eklavya’s sacrifice,

against which he would always be seconded

That though a borrowed Thumb,

Dead, out from Eklavya dreaded,

Frightened,

a faith in self and the promise,

the opportunist Guru had in him implanted.

That helped secure Arjuna’s place, or pace

to be the ‘greatest shooter’, well in the offing.

Perhaps,

The destiny was to have deserved that supremacy,

Lest Eklavya should join the other side of brutality

With which opportunist Drona redefined chastity.

Through Incapacitated thumb,

in the guise of a GuruDakshina so dumb.

Drona designed to waste Eklavya’s practice!

But, will knowledge unlearn the essence of erudity,

Weighted against Eklavya’s supremely learning patience!

Enthused for a cultural change, and commitment,

Arjuna behoved such expectations for a newer success

With great Results and still better outcomes.

It however enforced a re-approving environment…

New experimentations for learning all in tandem

such celebrations are likely to tone up the succession.

If Eklavya’s kind of a Learning theme beckons us,

Of a distant, but however oriented stimulus.

We envision greatest objectives of a ‘Quality inputs’,

at the behest of a devoted disciple,

even, pseudo stimulus amidst a quality process,

proved such ‘concomitance’ would make outcomes quadruple.

© copyright 2014 - 2015, Priyavrat Thareja

4 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Rasbindu V. Mehta

Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

Dear Ronald and Yogesh,

You rightly pointed out about lack of good education for poor children in developing country. But situation for even middle class is no better. If we compare educattion with a machine than what will happen when material of machine is of low quality, operators  have no skills and will to operate, supervisors are careless and management is busy with other interests? Answer is simple both at input and output raw material will remain raw!

5 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Education builds the man so it builds the nation. Quality basic education is the bare minimum human right of all children, the prospective architects of the world as correctly stated by Dear Ronald. "Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development" - Kofi Annan (former UN Secretary General). Dakar Framework emerged out of the meeting of World Education Forum in Dakar (Senegal) in April 2000 acknowledged that  a lot disadvantaged, underprivileged children are bereft of basic education due to low socio-economic status and also  agreed upon the right  to education as a basic right. The Parliament of India passed the Right to Education Act (RTE) enacted on 4 August 2009 which describes the modalities of the importance of free and compulsory education for children between 6 and 14 in India under Article 21A of the Indian Constitution. With this act India became one of 135 countries to make education a fundamental right of every child when the act came into force on 1 April 2010. Dealing with all these acts and agreements require honest and sincere spirit, sufficient investment and bold reforms.  However, the fact is that school are facing lack of infrastructure, acute shortage of competent teacher and above all lack of strong will at government level. For example, the budget for implementation of the RTE Act throughout the country is just half of the amount spent on the 2010 Commonwealth Games. Also, while the government intend to provide quality education to all children, across all barriers, school are recognized under four different categories like govt schools, govt.-aided schools, govt recognized special schools and private schools under the Act. In such a variety of schools, quality of education varies and obviously rich will be able to afford better quality education and the poor have to compromise with rather inferior. Further, for improving the quality of education, attitude, aptitude and dedication of teachers could make the largest contribution as teachers are one of the main components for such goal to be achieved – well said by Dear Ljubomir. On the other hand, today majority of youth are quite unwilling to opt teaching as career owing to the general feeling that respect for the profession has declined and teachers are not gaining status or acknowledgement of their efforts from society or policy-makers. The Gurukul System and Guru-Shishya (Teacher-Pupil) tradition signifying a succession of teachers and disciples in traditional Indian culture has faded away. Teaching obsessed Gurus (Teachers) like Buddha and Shankara (philosophy), Kautilya (political science and administration), Sushruta (surgery), Charaka (medicine), Kanada (physicist; propounder of atomic theory), Nagarjuna (Chemistry), Aryabhatta and Varahamihira (Astronomy), Baudhayana and Brahmagupta (mathematics) and Patanjali (yoga) (to name a few), who taught by precept and example, good conduct, right thinking, loyalty to truth, mental discipline and sense of duty are the ideal role models of present-day's teachers who can create Gold out of ashes as mentioned by Dear Priyavrat.

8 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Ljubomir Jacić

Technical College Požarevac

The Right of Education belongs to all people of the planet. "Education is a fundamental human right and essential for the exercise of all other human rights. It promotes individual freedom and empowerment and yields important development benefits. Yet millions of children and adults remain deprived of educational opportunities, many as a result of poverty..."

"At the end of last week, the UNESCO Executive Board unanimously signed up to the first ever UN decision, “Learning without Fear”, condemning gender-based violence in all its forms and manifestations. Countries committed themselves to design and implement national policies and action plans; and to promote the creation of safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments for all boys and girls. The decision also invites the Director-General to submit a roadmap to better combat school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) to the Executive Board this time next year..."

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/right2education

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-international-agenda/right-to-education/single-view/news/unescos_executive_board_unanimously_sign_up_to_protect_learning_without_fear/

10 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Yes Dear Ljubomir, The Right of Education belongs to all people of the planet. Thanks for informative threads.

@ Priyavrat - An interesting, inspiring and electrifying poetry stressing want of quality education without any disparity. 

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I took the following facts from Plan Canada's website Called "Because I am a Girl." The web address is http://becauseiamagirl.ca/girlseducation

"Girls’ education

Every girl has a right to an education, but close to 62 million girls around the world are not in school, and even more struggle to remain where they belong – in the classroom. Every day, girls are taken out of school, married far too young, and subjected to violence in school. And yet, it’s proven that with an education, girls can lift themselves – and everyone around them – out of poverty.

The facts on education for girls

For every extra year a girl stays in school, her income can increase by 15 to 25%

There is a 20% increase in child survival when household income is in a mother’s hands

If 10% more girls attend school, a country’s GDP increases by an average of 3%

When a girl receives more education, she is 6X less likely to be married as a child and will have 2.2 fewer, yet healthier children who are more likely to go to school themselves

Each extra year of a mother’s schooling cuts infant mortality by between 5 and 10%

The facts are clear. When you empower a girl through education, she’ll change the world for everyone around her. But without an education, girls are more likely to marry young, have children early, and spend their life in poverty."

I think these facts speak to the need for Basic Quality Education for girls in particular, though of course boys can use this education as well.

7 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Monica Bhattacharjee

Simon Fraser University

I think there is mismanagement of funds in many countries, and usually, these funds often fall into the wrong hands due to corruption and red-tapism. Any country that cares about its future will first and foremost care about its education system, and heavily invest in it. In India, the problem is further compounded by overpopulation and a general lack of accountability. There is a vicious cycle of overpopulation, poverty, greater income disparity, and further deepening of that as the cycle continues. Lack of access to education is directly tied to another vicious cycle based on gender inequality (intersects with cultural factors), lack of awareness on family planning, more mouths to feed and thus perpetuating the mindset that children ought to support the family rather than be supported. There is no one straightforward answer. The first step is to invest more into public education and reduce the steep fee structures of private institutes as well and make them more accessible to the general population.

7 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

There are a good number of Dichotomies.

- though resources are necessary, the lack of these in a blessed situation sure kindles a brighter fame to achieve the 'desired quality' of education. Affluence leads to slowing down of processes.

- the requirement of teachers to research than attend to the generally unsung class room rigours. Viz a teacher is evaluated by his/her research publications, and not to the devotion to basic duty. Higher one moves away from the class room, better is the person known (the one who teaches, is only known amongst his/her 60 students of class s/he teaches).

- Good teaching is 'skill development', Employability (as no more than a  mere quarter of degree /diploma holders are employable), the coverage of syllabus, and not good conduct, right thinking, loyalty to truth, mental discipline and sense of duty.

- Several other dichotomies of Public Versus Private; Specialists Versus generalists, marks Versus grades,  NCLB (non- Failing; (no child left behind) Versus repeating a class, Large class Versus small class; etc  make the context very complicated

And since the ideal role models of present-day's teachers are hard to find (not absent), there is a case in raising another world, of the new borns, who are insulated  from the  uneducated mass of this world' by right action from the teacher's of Midas touch -of  

"obsessed Gurus (Teachers) like Buddha and Shankara (philosophy), Kautilya (political science and administration), Sushruta (surgery), Charaka (medicine), Kanada (physicist; propounder of atomic theory), Nagarjuna (Chemistry), Aryabhatta and Varahamihira (Astronomy), Baudhayana and Brahmagupta (mathematics) and Patanjali (yoga)". 

- The Dichotomy of Arjuna (directly mentored), versus Eklavya (Indirectly mentored) was what I had knit through verse. They are remembered because here both students were ethically rich (while Guru Dronacharya was probably not.).

If we need to learn from the role ethics play in education, then can we have a two world model (as I argued above) as a worthwhile solution? it is a question to delibrate. 

The high role of Ethos in human development is what Albert Einstein envisaged :  "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." 

3 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

in Lighter vein-

Lecturer - the one who reads (studies) for teaching and TEACHES

Reader (a.k.a Asst Prof) - the one who does not read, yet  TEACHES

Professor -- the one who does not read, nor TEACHES

Principal -- the one who does not read, nor TEACHES, nor lets others teach.

Such is attributed to the 1st dichotomy in my post above

3 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

@ Brenda – In fact, girls in the developing world and more or less all parts of world (you mentioned some facts and figure from Plan Canada's website) are often denied opportunities for education. Lack of education limits prospects, decreases family income, reduces health, puts these girls at risk of trafficking and exploitation, and limits the economic advancement of entire countries. Your concern for education and empowerment of girls is genuine. Govt and the all concerned should pay attention and ensure that girls have equal access to basic education so that they could be able to make decisions for a better future.

@ Monica – Yes, lack of quality education is the prime cause of challenges like overpopulation, disparity, gender inequity, unemployment, poverty, etc.  Governments should ensure that corruption, red-tapism, may not obstruct the missions of quality education besides other development actions.  

@ Priyavrat – I agree with you views that we need responsible, accountable, ethically-sound and passionate teachers for sustained majesty of teaching profession over and above necessary support from governments and society.

5 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

@ Cecilia - Family is the first school of a child and parents are the first teacher and should remain their best teacher throughout life. When a young child begins formal school, the parent’s job is to show him how school can extend the learning and how exciting and meaningful this learning can be. As you rightly mentioned some parents (mostly of affluent family who treat teacher as paid servicer) are too lenient with their children and their faults, and blame school teachers for deficiency in their children. In fact parent’s attitude about school, teachers and education can improve or spoil learning behaviour of their children direct them how to take charge of their own educational journey. Traditional sayings, “The apple doesn't fall far from the tree” and “Like father, like son”  infer that parents are responsible  for how their children  turn out-better or worse.

5 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

Parents can play a big role in developing positive attitude in children towards school, teacher, and learning!

5 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Krishnan Umachandran

NELCAST

Changes required in India

6 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Yes dear Krishnan, Supplemental teaching resources  to pay special attention to weaker children and Incentives in the form of career promotion and compensation to the best and effective teachers based on actual performance, are also important issues to be looked into so far education quality improvement  is concerned.

4 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

Unfortunately, Now-a-days, Indian Government --- State Governments also --- believes in contractual teachers and not filling the permanent posts of teachers, even in schools. 

What will happen with the students, when one teacher runs the school. Not only this, even prime institutions like IIMs, IITs, NITs, along with others are miserably deficient of teachers.

4 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

Right Krishnan, Contract teachers have been plethorically used to substitute for regular teachers in school, colleges and Universities.

Reasons:  Schedules of interviews for new recruitment not made/ followed, Non finalisation of rules, Resources/ Bans from goverments on new recruitment. Mismanagments/ undue promotions (ineligible candidated promoted and deserving suppressed; promoted without having applied for, without having necessary qualification / experience, promoted on Future dates say 9 months earlier of eligibility) 

(Qualified) teachers inavailable.

etc.  The ills are deep rooted and point to gross dishonesty & callousness.

So rightly said "Career promotion to the best and effective teachers based on actual performance, and provides a substantial compensation "

4 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

@ Subhash & Priyavrat - The vital role of teachers in educational advancement and the importance of their contribution to the development society and nation should be duly recognized. Improvement in education depends largely on the qualifications, aptitude and mind-set of the teachers. To ensure that teachers enjoy the status commensurate with this role. It should be recognized that the proper status of teachers and due public regard for the profession of teaching are of major importance for the full realization of the goals of quality education. At the same time this would require teachers with expert knowledge and specialized skills, acquired and maintained through rigorous and continuing study. Employment of teachers should be free from any form of discrimination and corrupt interventions and working environment should conducive to best promote effective learning and enable teachers to concentrate on their professional tasks. 

3 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Ljubomir Jacić

Technical College Požarevac

Reviewing the Effects of Population Growth on Basic Education Development is an article that treats the impact of population growth." High population growth rate means rapid growth of the school-age population that spreads out even more thinly the already very scarce resources for basic education development. This study explores access to resources between urban and non/less-urban populations and its impact on basic education development..."

http://www.academia.edu/1193825/Reviewing_the_Effects_of_Population_Growth_on_Basic_Education_Development

9 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Yes Dear Ljubomir, resource development for Basic education should commensurate with school-age population growth. Both public and private sectors should establish strategic partnership to share the financial liability required for improving basic education. A nice thread presenting significant study.

4 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

Yes, Yogesh,

In PPP model, both public and private sectors jointly can establish strategic partnership to share the financial liability required for improving basic education.

Additionally, Government could not increase and improve the school/institutions facilities to meet the increasing demand due to heavy increase in population.

6 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

As I see it the PPP model is principally mature (atleast around post 1985), when privatisation of education began in south India. The reservation policy, the fee reimbursement to unprivilleged students etc are hidden interpolations of PPP policy.

The private sector is generally supported by richer students. Investment is education by elite and middle class is given due precedence amongst various investments.

The other question is how wisely is public resouce deployed in education sector. I had already stated about the education cess support by each tax payer

3 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Krishnan Umachandran

NELCAST

Education is by listening alone, it is also learn by doing, experiencing and reflecting

http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/innovation-education-activity-based-learning/1/186621.html

4 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

yes Dear Krishnan, It is in one's very own efforts. Great

Einstein felt "  "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."'

so he added "• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school." " 

6 Recommendations

5th May, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

@ Subhash & Priyavrat - Governments around the world are exploring different ways to involve the private sector as an alternative option in providing education besides public financing. However, contracting out educational services is controversial due to the general criticism that these initiatives lead to privatization of education thus reducing the government’s control over a public service, socioeconomic segregation, less or no support and pressure from more educated parents to deteriorating public schools where poorer students will be left behind. Thus governments should take necessary steps to create an environment that is conducive to the establishment of well-designed and successful PPPs in education. Few studies suggest that contracting out to the private sector can have several benefits, including greater efficiency, increased choice, and wider access to education, particularly for those households who have been poorly served by traditional methods of providing education.

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5th May, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

Dear Yogesh,

You are very right!

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5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

 Yogesh, quote" general criticism that ... privatization of education..[ leads to] reducing the government’s control over a public service, socioeconomic segregation, ... deteriorating public schools where poorer students will be left behind." unquote

does not gel with me. History has it that Christian schools operated by nuns in India, DAV's, SGPC (Sikh), SD (Sanatam Dharma) etc etc have always contributed quality wise, better than  how government.schools supported Indian education.

We had Sanawar School, Doon School, Dalhousie et al which at some times were popular. It is primarily the zeal, for the sociocultural service etc which contributes to the quality of education, the cause, or the school. 

Is the Government really worried about her controls on them?

Yes, if someone maintains a school, which teaches antisocial culture, behaviourism, and skills, the governments (for the people) would feel scared

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5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

TheLetter from New York: Why can’t Indian Americans be more Indian?

By Francois Gautier   gives clues to most of the ills  (slightly shortened)

It’s lunchtime at the home of the Consul General of India in New York, Dnyaneshwar M. Mulay.  

A young Hindu American arrives. Her name is Suchitra Vijayan and she teaches part time in Columbia University, one of the most prestigious in the USA and plans to start there a course on South Asian Human Rights. She says that she is first going to travel to India to interview Kashmiri Muslims and Christian Nagas – obviously an anti Indian agenda -while her Indian consular mentor smiles proudly… 

Welcome to America, the home of millions of Indians, some of whom make

a living out of bashing India in American universities and in US publications.  

Let’s face it: Indians who emigrate to America most of the time merge totally into the American way of life and their children never come back to their homeland. 

The culprit, of course, is Indian education that mass produces brilliant Indians, who are only good for export, because students are not taught to be proud of their own culture, the way French are proud to be French or the Americans proud to be Americans.  

As a result, Indian Americans know nothing about Kalidasa, probably one

of the greatest poets ever, or Shivaji Maharaj, who is on par with Napoleon,

or Sri Aurobindo, India’s greatest contemporary philosopher - but all about

Shakespeare, the latest Dan Brown novel, or the best Italian restaurant in

New York.  

This is the greatest brain drain in the world, which allowed the Silicon Valley to flourish (80% Indian engineers), or the American medical system to expand (60% Indians). 

Compare this to the American Chinese: Not only do they unabashedly stand

out as Chinese, but they repatriate many of their funds to China and even go

back to the mainland, to be part of the great Chinese economic boom. 

American Indians rave about the American way of life, but it burns out a human being in 30 or 40 years. They start early for work – by 7 am, America’s millions of highways are already clogged with traffic. There is fierce competitiveness in the work place – you can be fired in a minute for no reason. Imagine the late hours and heartburn produced over the years by food too quickly swallowed on the run or in the car, the immense stress at airports where security – thanks to continuing terrorism – has reached inhuman proportions… 

If only American Indians did retain a bit of their Indian-ness… Today’s Hollywood stars all do yoga, India’s gift to the world. Yet not only it is not taught in Indian schools and universities as it should, but our Hindu American do not practice it.  

What else? Pranayama is the ancient Indian science of breathing. Through it you can not only gain more energy, but also de-stress naturally and balance your mind.  

It is also a perfectly secular science: Respiration has no religion ... In fact, Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, who has revived and modernised pranayama, has many Muslims and Christians teachers and disciples. Yet, neither is it taught in India, nor do our Indian Americans seem to practice it much.  

What about meditation, this most ancient technique that has again no

religion, and can be practiced by anybody, with wonderful effects on the mind

and the body? 

In fact, American companies have begun introducing meditation in their seminars and it is becoming mainstream in the US. Does that mean that meditation is taught in Indian schools, as it should be, or that our Indian Americans practice it? Not at all.  

What about Ayurveda, the oldest medical science still in practice that understood 3000 years before western medicine, that many diseases have a psychosomatic origin? Do our Hindu Americans use Ayurveda? Unlikely.

Yet, what would happen if Indian Americans practiced a little bit of that Indian-ness? They would shine, be an example to their fellow Americans, and make India proud.  

Instead they want to become more American than the Americans. In this process, they drop their unique identity and are a loss not only to India, but also to America, as they bring nothing new to American culture. 

And because they do not stand out, they allow these multiple South Asian groups that sprout everywhere, to be dominated by hostile Indian Americans, who, for instance, convinced the US Government for ten years to deny Narendra Modi a visa. 

At the same time, it is true that America, whatever its faults, has always stood up for freedom and democracy. It did so during World War II, when it saved Europe from Nazi domination. It is doing so today, by being the only country in the world willing to take on terrorism head on.  

Americans are friendly, hard working, and it should soon dawn upon them that India is their natural political ally, in an Asia confronted with terrorism born out of Pakistan, Afghanistan or Indonesia. .......................

The author is the editor in chief of the Paris based La Revue de l’Inde. 

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5th May, 2015

Shankhadeep Chakraborty

Techno India

We should focus on the application part of our educational principles. Already a lot of researches have been done on ways of improving the quality basic education.

Thanks for sharing the question.

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5th May, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

------ Issues in Basic Education in Developing Countries ------

Education is widely regarded as the route to economic prosperity, the key to scientific and technological advancement, the means to combat unemployment, the foundation of social equity, and the spread of political socialization and cultural vitality.

Although developing countries experienced massive growth in enrollment soon after

independence, such exponential growth has been accompanied by manifold challenges and dilemmas.

http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/cice/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/8-1-11.pdf

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5th May, 2015

Mohammad Kargar

Khorasan Institute of Higher Education

hi dear YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI ,

By the grace of God

  In Iran, the neighboring of India

There's more attention to the value of science literacy movement has been

Scientists and scholars of each country's task

To expand their knowledge

Zakat is the publication of (the Prophet)

Dominated by the tyranny of the hard scientist

This is not the same for politicians to follow

For example:

India has many energy resources but

One of the biggest importers of coal in the world

This shows a lack of awareness or attention to the issue of employment and income

According to the science of learning and motivation

The main task of scientists.

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5th May, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

@ Mohammad

"India has many energy resources but One of the biggest importers of coal in the world"

Indian coal is poor in quality. (ash content is high, averaging 20 %; the worst touches 40% ), which contaminates in production  of iron and steel.

The calorific value is consequently lowered, to worsen that the transporters wet the coal. [However India is another exporter of steel apart from China, so the economics works. the energy problems discussed in paper attached]. But why?  the transporters do it because they are uneducated? Because there is an insulation of socio-technical relevance from our education? There is a greed for money and affluence in society to have more than you deserve?

Article SHEQing the Potential Holistically for Power

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5th May, 2015

Mohammad Kargar

Khorasan Institute of Higher Education

hi dear Thareja,

Thank you very much for good reasons

But

Only with knowledge can be

Production wheel spin gained

For a country the size of India, it is essential to self-sufficiency

Countries that seek political independence should reach economic independence

This is not possible without the development of awareness of the population

The illiterate and hungry when thinking about the development of the country?

Is not it important to feed them?

What is the effect of the illiterate in progress?

My dear friend recently Pyshdr the world's largest research was silence.

The outage was related to India in 2012.

Would you or do you have?

What amount of money that can be spent on the poor people of India will have to buy coal?

Progress in the field of optimization requires knowledge discovery

Is not it?

I reported the Farsi language but not unpleasant visit

Patent A report from the world's biggest blackout

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Dear Mohammad

Very interesting and useful the e energetic map provided. Really. Thnx.

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5th May, 2015

Saeed Dashtban

Khorasan Institute of Higher Education

We are back and we can learn from some of the countries with intellectual and his efforts to compensate some of the retreat

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6th Jun, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

@ Mohammad Kargar - Fundamental educational skills form the basis for all future learning, but today too many students across the developing world, particularly the poorest, are missing out. Good teaching is essential to making sure that students learn. Yet too often, government policies have failed to focus on improving the practice of teaching. Increasing awareness and accountability for student learning by improving public knowledge about learning outcomes is vital. Just enrolling in and attending school does not guarantee mastery of even the most basic skills. Therefore in addition to allocation of sufficient resources and their efficient use to improve educational quality, development of effective instruction that improves student learning at low cost is also important.

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6th Jun, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

We are lacking in honest will power to improve basic education.

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6th Jun, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Firm commitment to the principles and honesty in implementation of education schemes is crucial for success, so far as quality basic education is concerned.

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6th Jun, 2015

Ljubomir Jacić

Technical College Požarevac

Improving Basic Education Can Boost U.S. Economy by $27 Trillion!!! 

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/05/13/oecd-improving-basic-education-can-increase-us-economy-by-27-trillion

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6th Jun, 2015

Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan

Vel Tech - Technical University

This is a great discussion. Our collective views may be consolidated and published in some Educational blog web-site.

With best wishes, Sundar

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6th Jun, 2015

Nizar Matar

An-Najah National University

As usual, dear Prof. Ljubomir Jacić provides high quality contributions. My unsophisticated comment is that investment in education (basic or more advanced) is one of the most rewarding since the human resources are the best capital any country has. The evil short-sighted politicians gave priority to investment on weapons under the illusive pretext of security against ghosts & zombies "who are really their own creation & under their direction". Unfortunately, political ignorance among the majority of the public has served these politicians "who are, in turn, servants for the arms trade & other rich whales !".

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6th Jun, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

Greed (for affluence) and Power are the two enemies of education, which (education)  prompts for humility. Dichotomously, Education is power (and a solution to shared affluence).

Those, who may pursue power! @ weaponry - must be poorly educated,

As what they know is @ what Einstein quips :

 • "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."

But such providence is never sustainable, and must end soon, may be liquidating, along with the society. As  Einstein dealigns with the power (politics) equations.

• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."

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6th Jun, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

India is a big country and despite being best efforts, Universal Basic Education can not be improved. In remote areas, there are schools with one teacher only.

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6th Jun, 2015

Priyavrat Thareja

PEC University of Technology

"Universal Basic Education can not be improved." -  Since hard facts are also demotivating, it is better to be optimistic, and :

(i) let us contribute for some success with all our might!

(ii) be always optimistic

(ii) seek best answers to problems posed in Subhash C. Kundu's post of may 4.(page 1 of this post).

(iv) and pray! 

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9th Sep, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

Yes, Priyavrat Thareja,

Optimism for solving problems may help!

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9th Sep, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

Quality of basic education is not satisfactory. In India, the Right to Education (RTE) Act mainly focussed on enrolment rates & infrastructure and not quality of education. Teaching is not a valued profession; per se majority of the educated youth in the country choose teaching as a profession only after other options are exhausted. As a result, youths who are unmotivated and uninterested in teaching are entering the teaching profession. Government should pay attention to improve the education quality through engaging competent teachers, paying them a lucrative salary and making them accountable for quality education. However, government cannot be blamed for all the educational problems. Equal responsibility has to be shared by the people for raising the value of the teaching profession, addressing the teacher accountability issue, and improving the quality of education. Teachers’ Unions should understand their responsibility as their concern and contribution is vital. Recently, the directives of Hon’ble High Court of the state of Uttar Pradesh (India) making it compulsory for all Govt. officers/ employee  to admit their wards to Govt Schools is commendable. Further, the illiterate population mostly belonging to under-privileged communities, need to be made aware about rights that good quality public education is their right and the government needs to deliver it. Let’s be optimistic that things will change and everyone should do his best for betterment of the education system.

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9th Sep, 2015

Subhash C. Kundu

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science & Technology

Quality of basic education is very poor in India. It’s a massive and complex problem – compounded by the fact that India has a young demography, and a huge population. The Indian government knows about the issue, but has no clear-cut strategy for tackling it.

Strong will is also missing!

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9th Sep, 2015

Ljubomir Jacić

Technical College Požarevac

Dear @Yogesh, this is fine essay about state of the art of Basic Education in Pakistan!

"Pakistan has failed the Millennium Development Goal of providing universal primary education by 2015...

We have a gigantic education crisis in Pakistan that will quadruple over the next few decades. We need visionary state intervention to grapple with it to fix all components of the supply chain to provide meaningful and affordable education to all citizens and invite more private investment in this sector. What we don’t need is populist moves such as one-time fee rebates forced upon elite private schools to placate our chattering classes."

http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-9-341175-Twisted-education-debate

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9th Sep, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

The socio-political conditions of Pakistan is worse that has badly affected all public governance systems including education. Report of Mr Babar Sattar categorically present the state of education in the country.

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12th Dec, 2015

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

It is a human right that all children receive, at the very least, primary education. Also, the sheer scale challenge of the good quality teaching  cannot be underestimated. Rightly said by Dear Markovic , universal quality basic education can be achieved with modernization traditional teaching. However,  it will require investment and bold reforms. The financing of basic education is the responsibility of Governments which is not adequate in India and most of the developing countries as well. Increasing overall levels of funding from domestic revenue sources on education is important. Contribution from business houses to education should also be encouraged as they benefit significantly from higher quality education and should be expected to contribute more. Millions of children are still out of school and millions learning little or nothing. It is argued that if we keep focused our generation could be the one that ensures that no child is denied their right to learn. Without quality basic education countries will not continue to prosper economically. The experience of some countries such as South Korea and more recently Brazil indicate that it is basic education that is critical to achieving equitable growth.

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Dear Yogesh,

Among the priorities, no government really puts education first. They say they will, yet they forget as soon as they get elected.

Sincerely, George

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9th Sep, 2017

Prabhat Ranjan

University of Allahabad

In India, educational institutes distribute documents (degrees).They are not focussed on quality knowledge and education. Apex bodies collect documents and manipulated data to show that India is great up to yet as we have shining education system on papers.

Some people feel this answer rude. But it is reality of Indian education.

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9th Sep, 2017

Aparna Sathya Murthy

In India Prof Tripathi ,  else inputs from teachers and less interactive teachers ... I have seen first hand (I would volunteer in government schools in Bangalore) . I would say try to get good teachers or train them for good schooling .

Kids show interest only when there is a balance between bookish fundas and extracurricular (as mentioned in the pdf) . 

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9th Sep, 2017

Yuri Yegorov

University of Vienna

I agree that modern basic education has deteriorated in many countries.

What may be the reason for that? Besides some bad management, it can also be the result of inefficient adaptation to rapidly changing environment. On one hand, in the time of computerization and high penetration of visual information some students would like to watch more rather than to copy lectures from the blackboard and solve problems in class. If a teacher continues with traditional methods, he can be critisised. But if he adapts modern tools too fast, the result can be lower knowledge of students, who now lack some of the skills that their parent had.

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9th Sep, 2017

Prabhat Ranjan

University of Allahabad

In India, interviews are final instrument to recruit university teachers where performance in written examinations are used only for scrutinizing. A candidate with excellent scores in written examination, can also be in a position to be not selected. Interviews are affected by personal agenda. When system fail to select good teachers, system also fail to give quality education.

Candidates selected (for the post of university teachers) on the basis of castes and creed, often fail to do justice with its all students. They discriminate the students on the basis of castes, creeds and regions.

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9th Sep, 2017

Thomas Heise

Hannover Medical School

Dear Yogesh and Roland,

you are putting the fingers into an important wound, which has to be cured as soon as possible. In Europe Finland is said to be best in primary education. But even when this is known since years: who was willing to learn from this or from other research like that many children are supposed to learn better in the afternoon and less children are better in the morning.

Looking into the research of the neighbors garden (of different subjects and cultures) is still very difficult for too many...

We must not loose patience, but go on struggling for the kids of our earth, = the planets future, and so very early they should learn what is the most important: moral in daily business and responsibility to the other and the nature!!!

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9th Sep, 2017

Jetty Ramadevi

University of Newcastle

Yogesh may be difficult I believe. Variety of cultures/traditions.

Once you reach certain maturity or at higher education level no problem you can manage. 

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9th Sep, 2017

Ljubomir Jacić

Technical College Požarevac

US Congress Resolution!

Providing for consideration of the Senate amendment to the House amendment to the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 601) to enhance the transparency and accelerate the impact of assistance provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to promote quality basic education in developing countries, to better enable such countries to achieve universal access to quality basic education and improved learning outcomes, to eliminate duplication and waste, and for other purposes...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-resolution/509

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9th Sep, 2017

Aparna Sathya Murthy

If education monitored for transparency ... I  guess dooms day is close ...

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9th Sep, 2017

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

High-quality education is a prerequisite for learning and human development, However the fact is that -

• a total of 250 million children worldwide cannot read or write. This represents one-third of all the children in the world.
• 130 million of the 250 million who can neither read nor write have attended school for at least four years.
• there is a shortage of an estimated two million teachers globally in relation to securing basic education for all – more than half of this number in sub-Saharan Africa.
• 12.6 million new teachers are needed by 2020 to reach the goal of education for all, according to UNESCO.
• teachers’ wages amount to 80 per cent of most countries’ education budget. 

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11th Nov, 2017

Irina Mikhailovna Pechonkina

University of Jordan

You are right, dear Yogesh, it's a vicious circle, based on inequality. To our scientists above, "it has transformed into mark scoring mechanism", it is not free, there is "learning with Fear"...Sustainable development of every human being depends on humanization of the living environment(so called "micro-society and macro-society'): family, kindergarten, school, university and macro social environment. For that ruling structures must eradicate poverty and instability and allow for full development of the entire population. In the corrupt countries it's impossible.

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11th Nov, 2017

YOGESH CHANDRA TRIPATHI

Forest Research Institute Dehradun

You are right, dear Irina. Corruption is one of the main cause for degradation in the education system. All educational institutions set up by corrupt politicians/ corporate for making-money should be monitored and controlled by the government in a more effective way. Another area of focus is the encouragement for students by way of valuing teaching profession and remunerating well, to become a teacher and understand the value of sharing education.

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11th Nov, 2017

Prabhat Ranjan

University of Allahabad

Quality of education reflects social development and development of institutions on the society. Societies keen to develop develop institutions and culture to preserve it.

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12th Dec, 2017

Aparna Sathya Murthy

From what I understand, restructuring is not the way to go . Yet having proper teacher training may be B.Ed and M.Ed would be the starting point .

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12th Dec, 2017

Irina Mikhailovna Pechonkina

University of Jordan

Dear Monyer, it's forbidden from my computer.The most important thing in education is that it must be free of charge and free to all in the context of life-long learning.

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12th Dec, 2017

Ishag Adam

University of Khartoum

I think the situation in Africa is not different from India

Economic, politics and wars are the main factors behind the lack of basic education in Africa

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