Important Education Reforms

People just don’t seem to realize that I am dead serious when I come up with my suggestions to improve the education system in India. I don’t understand how the educationists of this great nation missed out on certain crucial aspects of education. “Corporate ass-licking”, “Back-stabbing and Double-crossing”, “Nepotism”, “The Art of Plagiarism” should be indispensable part of curriculum. Education should prepare the individual to face the real world. When people around the world will be struggling to climb the corporate ladder, we can bungee-jump right to the rooftop. The syllabi can be structured in a highly interactive fashion with good emphasis on the practical aspects.

Now that basic education has been dealt with it is time to make improvements in higher education. Loans and subsidies should be offered to poor-farmers, carpenters, cobblers and other blue-collars so that they can start engineering colleges on their own. This way education will really reach the “masses”.

In order to provide more opportunity to students, engineering degrees should be offered in fields like “Hotel Management”, “Zoology”, “Sociology”, “English”, “Psychology”, and “Economics”. This is because all the mass wants is an Engineering degree mindless of what subject they are actually studying. If engineering degrees are offered in these fields, it will encourage more people to take up these fields for which there are very few takers if offered as a Science or Arts degree. Then we shall have technically qualified people in all fields who still end up working in software companies anyway.

Another plan I have for engineers is to make the Engineering program a 3-year course. After this they will automatically be promoted to a year of pre-TCS and 2 years of TCS. This is because invariably every engineer in the country seems to be working only in that company, so why not make it mandatory that all engineers serve 2 years of TCS and at the end of which they will get actual jobs with work to do.

When it is up to discussing the education system there is one very critical aspect – Examinations. It is indeed evident that the people who frame the syllabi, the teachers nor the students have any idea of what the subjects are about. So it becomes tough to set a benchmark for evaluation of papers in a fair and foolproof manner. So I have proposed a new equation to overcome this difficulty.

M = [(m/100) + a (W x l) ^N e^x] + k

M = Marks obtained

m = money taken for paper tracking

a = +1 if the evaluator likes the candidate, -1 if not

W = weight of paper in grams

l = No. of lines

N = No. of colors used in underlining, decoration and drawing boxes

e = eccentricity of the evaluator (on scale of 1-10)

x = Number between 0-1 depending on mood of invigilator

k = Arbitrary constant

There are three kinds of people. First are the ones who find faults in the things around themselves. Second are the ones who find faults crib about it and make a big fuss. The third are the ones who make a difference. I have made a conscious effort to remain in the third category. The output of this effort is exposed in this article, which is the fruit of the many classes that I have cut, the papers I have copied, endless hours of interaction in the canteen and my research in core topics like paper leaks and paper chasing etc. Thus I have been able to venture to the crux of the education system and come up with these valuable suggestions.