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'India has exam system, not education system'

 

'India has exam system, not education system'
 
In the thick of the entrance exam season, a furious dispatch to the PM from his own scientific adviser has termed such tests as one big menace.
<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;">Times of India</span>

SOURCE - https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-has-exam-system-not-education-system/articleshow/7977172.cms






BANGALORE/MUMBAI: In the thick of the entrance exam season, a furious dispatch to the Prime Minister from his own scientific adviser has termed such tests as one big menace.

Strongly recommending an immediate halt to the system of sitting for a pile of exams, C N R Rao, who heads the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (SACPM), said in a letter sent last week that the American method of holding one national exam before joining university is the way.

Putting it bluntly, Rao told the PM that India is said to "have an examination system but not an education system... When will young people stop taking exams and do something worthwhile?"

Referring to the exam overdrive, Rao briefed Manmohan Singh on the various flavours of examinations that dot a student's life: "It is important to relook the entire examination system including the system of final examinations, entrance examinations, qualifying examinations, selection examinations, and so on. Now one hears of a proposal to have a qualifying or accreditation examination for medical graduates and post-graduates."

Students who groan under the pressure of multiple entrance exams will cheer this advice. Citing the example of Joint Entrance Examination conducted by IIT, he said: "IIT entrance exams have the reputation of being difficult and purposeful, but they have also had a negative effect on young minds. Young people suffer so much to succeed in these entrance exams, and in the process lose excitement in education itself."

The lakhs who don't make it across the IIT gates, Rao told the PM, get exhausted and can't perform as well as young people with fresh minds.

Talking about the agony that the Indian higher education sector is in, the SACPM, in a brief document sent to the PM recently — accessed by TOI — noted, "Today there is not a single educational institution in India which is equal to the best institution in the advanced countries".

In view of the growing number of aspirants for higher education, the SACPM has readied a 10-point checklist of key problems and challenges. It has asked the human resources development ministry to set up a taskforce to come up with an action-oriented document within a year.

"We should seriously consider a possible scenario wherein the young India advantage enables India to emerge as the provider of trained manpower for the entire world in the next 20-30 years. This could be a worthwhile national objective," he told the PM.

Rao's checklist for higher education include:

Raising the bar: Provide all required support to 10 educational institutions to enable them to compete with the best in advanced countries

Look ahead: There's a manpower mismatch in many countries with too many professionals in some subjects. Prepare a vision document which foresees the problems 20 years hence

Inclusivity: Increase the number of fully residential schools up to higher secondary level in rural India to nurture rural talent

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 6 Replies

Sarvesh Kumar Sharma Advocate (Advocacy)     22 April 2011

in the era of corruption wht is the need of eduction?

just pass the exam for join new genretion of corruption!

 

 

N.K.Assumi (Advocate)     22 April 2011

Exam systems not education systems! Well said, but education systems or exam systems it will all be the same in Inaida.

Roshni B.. (For justice and dignity)     22 April 2011

Looking at this photograph,it seems that caged animals are stuffed inside a zoo,waiting for the cage caretaker to open the cages and free them as soon as possible.

 

Thank god!!!!

 

My studies have been over long back....

 

now no more cramming !!   i really hated cramming those answers again and again ...it used to be a real torture

 

 

now i am freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:)


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@Roshni B..

now i am freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee:P

And I am  inside a zoo.:(

N.K.Assumi (Advocate)     22 April 2011

Haaaa Haaaa well well! Kushan, I really like your comments on Roshni B.

rakeshfatehpur (Advocate)     24 April 2011

examination for brillent student to disqualify by any means & uplifting the so called reserved class.

Rakesh


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