Well its been a long time that I started/stopped blogging. All these years I thought of writing posts on many issues but in vain. I now feel that I gotta take off in someway or the other to get into this loop of blogging. So here comes my new post in three years!!!
Last week I was in Hyderabad on vacation. I got down the train and took a city bus to Madhapur. Half way from Sec'bad the bus moved past a school bus. I was happy to see small kids back on their way home. I turned my head to see the name of the school and to my dismay this was the caption on the school bus
It is a known fact that education is all but a kind of business in Andhra Pradesh. Almost all of the High School Education now lies in the hands of very big Educational Corporates. They have not only changed the cost of the education but also the course of the parents' thought process. With the cost of education soaring high, so are the hopes of parents to see their kids in the premier institutes of the country. Absolutely right and I appreciate the role of the Corporates of the Educational field for the spread of awareness.
A closer look beyond this awareness takes us to the ground reality. Almost 9 out of 10 households(figures are only based on my experiences) back in the state have their kids pursuing an Engineering or a Medicine degree (The high cost and longer tenure to completion of a Medicine degree in addition to very few seats makes it less famous among the two). In-fact parents have started to choose Primary schools which teach children math and other stuff(required for the making of an Engineer). Parents are no more interested in their kids' overall development. It's been a long time since people seized to consider languages as subjects. Heights of this race is to neglect board exams for Engineering entrances. Children are being trained to break into premier institutes but not to understand the basic principles of the subjects. In-fact children are being put in IIT orientation/Techno schools way before they realize their areas of interest.
All this to see their kids in white collar jobs, earning a good money. Did I mention that most of these engineers are either S/W or IT engineers? Well people think that other courses are opted only in the dire situations of not being able to fight it out for the above two courses. So how many of these engineers are really employable?
I never saw a figure greater than 30% in any of the surveys conducted for employability. If the education standards are projected to be so high that more than 300 Engineering colleges are required, what happened to the rest 70%.
Very few people think of other professional courses, but the standards of those institutes have come down so much that they are not even considered as potential courses for a good career. It might be due to the fact that these institutes lack funds that the Engineering Colleges enjoy.
Now that MBA's get paid a lot more than Engineering Graduates, the focus has shifted to churn them out. Hence come the caption
Last week I was in Hyderabad on vacation. I got down the train and took a city bus to Madhapur. Half way from Sec'bad the bus moved past a school bus. I was happy to see small kids back on their way home. I turned my head to see the name of the school and to my dismay this was the caption on the school bus
IIT ye Dhyeyam IIM ye Lakshyam (Eng Translation:Goal - IIT, Target - IIM)
It is a known fact that education is all but a kind of business in Andhra Pradesh. Almost all of the High School Education now lies in the hands of very big Educational Corporates. They have not only changed the cost of the education but also the course of the parents' thought process. With the cost of education soaring high, so are the hopes of parents to see their kids in the premier institutes of the country. Absolutely right and I appreciate the role of the Corporates of the Educational field for the spread of awareness.
A closer look beyond this awareness takes us to the ground reality. Almost 9 out of 10 households(figures are only based on my experiences) back in the state have their kids pursuing an Engineering or a Medicine degree (The high cost and longer tenure to completion of a Medicine degree in addition to very few seats makes it less famous among the two). In-fact parents have started to choose Primary schools which teach children math and other stuff(required for the making of an Engineer). Parents are no more interested in their kids' overall development. It's been a long time since people seized to consider languages as subjects. Heights of this race is to neglect board exams for Engineering entrances. Children are being trained to break into premier institutes but not to understand the basic principles of the subjects. In-fact children are being put in IIT orientation/Techno schools way before they realize their areas of interest.
All this to see their kids in white collar jobs, earning a good money. Did I mention that most of these engineers are either S/W or IT engineers? Well people think that other courses are opted only in the dire situations of not being able to fight it out for the above two courses. So how many of these engineers are really employable?
I never saw a figure greater than 30% in any of the surveys conducted for employability. If the education standards are projected to be so high that more than 300 Engineering colleges are required, what happened to the rest 70%.
Very few people think of other professional courses, but the standards of those institutes have come down so much that they are not even considered as potential courses for a good career. It might be due to the fact that these institutes lack funds that the Engineering Colleges enjoy.
Now that MBA's get paid a lot more than Engineering Graduates, the focus has shifted to churn them out. Hence come the caption
IIT ye Dhyeyam IIM ye Lakshyam (Eng Translation: Goal - IIT, Target - IIM)!!!
