Making the System work

It is obvious that these and many other new tasks of education cannot be performed in a state of disorder. Education needs to be managed in an atmosphere of utmost intellectual rigor, seriousness of purpose and, at the same time, of freedom essential for innovation and creativity. While far-reaching changes will have to be incorporated in the quality and range of education, the process of introducing discipline into the system will have to be started, here and now, in what exists. The country has placed boundless trust in the educational system. The people have a right to expect concrete results. The first task is to make it work. All teachers should teach and all students study. The strategy consists of:

 

1. Better deal to teachers with greater accountability;
2. Provision of improved students services and insistence on observance of acceptable norms of behavior;
3. Provision of better facilities to institutions; and
4. Creation of a system of performance appraisals of institutions according to standards and norms set at the National or State levels.

 

Conclusion

The 1986 policy led to encouragement to emerging sectors like Information Technology, which witnessed an upsurge following the opening up of the technical education sector, particularly in capacity expansion in the private sector. Although the 1986 policy spoke against commercialization of education, the explosion in the number of private engineering and medical institutions, according to educationists, has only given a further impetus to the menace of capitation fee. The rapid expansion of private institutions has also, according to the Yashpal Committee, resulted in deterioration in quality. The concerns over quality led the Centre to review all deemed universities. Today's education system in India is not paced with global rate. Private universities have just become the factories to produce useless products and only concentrated on profit accumulation. Today India needs to overhaul its education system in such a way that it could compete with the pace of globalisation has.

 

References

New National Policy on education coming. (2011, August). The Hindu . India: The Hindu.

www.ncert.nic.in/oth_anoun/npe86. pdf