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I have made an attempt to put together problems in education in India and some prospective solutions that need us to introspect before we act. There are major reforms that the education sector needs, that too without bias and with an open-minded approach. Are we at that crucial point where we need to look ahead and innovate? Do we care enough to let our future human resources become intuitive, innovative and creative? Disclaimer: The facts have been picked from original documentation of sources. Images have been picked from google and I have tried to avoid copyrighted images to the best of my ability. The solutions are my personal opinions. One may or may not agree. :-)
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Help!!! Poor Education is Killing Us
Have you heard of PISA 2009 Test?
Yes? No? What is its significance?
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PISA = Programme for International Student Assessment
PISA 2009+
15 Year Olds going to School (who are in Grade 7 or above) are tested for Knowledge
and Skill Application in Reading, Mathematics and Scientific Literacies
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522,000 Students Participated Globally (From Total Sample Space of 23,840,000 Students in 74 Nations/Economies)
Himachal Pradesh & Tamil Nadu students from India participated!
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Let us Look at the Results. Shall We?
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Rank Region Score Rank Region Score Rank Region Score
1 Shanghai China 556 1 Shanghai China 600 1 Shanghai China 575
2 South Korea 539 2 Singapore 562 2 Finland 554
3 Finland 536 3 Hong Kong 555 3 Hong Kong 549
15 USA 500 16 Germany 513 16 UK 514
25 UK 494 28 UK 492 23 USA 502
37 Israel 474 31 USA 487 43 Turkey 454
44 Costa Rica 443 42 Azerbaijan 431 51 Thailand 425
55 Malaysia 414 53 Kazakhstan 405 58 Trinidad &
Tobago
410
64 Kazakhstan 390 64 Tunisia 371 64 Kazakhstan 400
72 Tamil Nadu 337 72 Tamil Nadu 351 72 Tamil Nadu 348
73 Himachal
Pradesh
317 73 Himachal
Pradesh
338 74 Himachal Pradesh 325
There we are at the bottom – Fighting with Kyrgyzstan for the last places!
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But, even Times of India (ToI) Reseach can find this out. What is so great saying this again!
We need to go a little deeper for the right analysis.
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A simple way would be to see the mean average scores, and the highest and lowest
scores for Shanghai and Indian States
556
417
679
337
211
472
317
192
443
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600
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Mean 5th Percentile 95th Percentile
Shanghai China
Tamil Nadu
Himachal Pradesh
Reading Literacy
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600
421
757
351
241
468
338
223
458
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300
400
500
600
700
800
Mean 5th Percentile 95th Percentile
Shanghai China
Tamil Nadu
Himachal Pradesh
Mathematic Literacy
575
430
700
348
252
461
325
209
450
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Mean 5th Percetile 95th Percentile
Shanghai China
Tamil Nadu
Himachal Pradesh
Scientific Literacy
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Can you see it? The low scorers in Shanghai are scoring as much as the high scorers in India!
Does that mean Indian kids are too unintelligent? Or, too slow learners?
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What? You don’t agree with PISA 2009+?
Too international!
Questions biased against India kids!
So, you want me to show you more?
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Then, let us see what the 2005 Nasscom-McKinsey Survey says!
You know McKinsey right? American Consulting Organization that hires MBAs
from India with fat paychecks?
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Employable 25%
Unemploayble 75%
Technical Graduates
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Employable 15%
Unemployable 85%
Other General Graduates
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Crisis!!! What do we do now?
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Teachers are to Blame Better Technology Needed
My Child is a Topper
Let us change our Curriculum & steal more from the US Common Core
Make books with better covers and same content
Remove Teachers & Let us Replace with E-Learning
CCE is bad! My child does not get a percentage anymore. I can’t brag!!!
Our school was started by IIT-IIM guys, send them here!
...and so much more blasphemy!
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So, how do we change?
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Poor Quality of Teachers is to Blame?
In Developed Nations: Teaching > Services > Administrative Roles
In India: Administrative Roles > Services > Teaching
This is a reflection of our learning ecosystem. We need to change it! A massive transformation in teacher training and development is required if we need our future human resources to be innovative in nature
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Why are learning solutions being made to substitute teachers?
Stop this madness. We need to empower them for a more sustainable solution!
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Why are we all about fancy packaging?
Digital Classes, Robotics, iPad Games – we have it all! Who is checking the content? It seems to be still about the fad, the glamorous outer shell.
Time to check quality of content!
What do you want as a parent?
Introspect as a parent! TCS, Infosys are not the only options. Do you want your kids to innovate, to think beyond ordinary, or just be Chatur from 3 Idiots?
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Finally, do we really know the problem?
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Everyone says quality of education is bad in India. Everyone has an opinion.
But, we always tend to solve the current problems and provide new solutions with the age old set of assumptions!
How does that solve our problems? It does not...
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Invent | Innovate | Create
Kids are natural innovators – let them be so!
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I am a sufferer of the Education System in India trying to re-imagine education in India...
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