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FOUNDATION, NON-FOUNDATION AND EYEWASH
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FOUNDATION, NON-FOUNDATION AND EYEWASH
The education industry is getting business oriented these days and linked individuals are becoming business persons and not industrialists,talking on ROI figures only. And alas! the employer/management is either foreigner to education industry or the so called NRI's entering into the safe zone of minting money with lesser pressure and efforts.
One such trend in schools prepare us all to ponder over the gravity of the situation. Some of them in India have categorized students into sections like foundation, non-foundation etc only on the basis of performance in the form of scores, thereby cultivating the inferiority complex amongst them or preparing them only to be the products after processing of raw materials instead of making them productive, skilled and adaptive to challenges or ups and downs in life. They are just creating the content to fulfill their expectations and to remain in competition with their competitors to prove their own edges where they remain successful to certain extent but the score and position remains the only benchmark in the annals of school's success except when a few take the untrodden path of their own to carve their own niche.
For me as an educator this always remain a question along with the question to those institutions producing the grads and postgrads in bulk with no necessary knowledge and poor IQ or the know hows of current scenario in the country, the question to those who are village natives, got degrees but could not explore the real knowledge or wisdom or don't want to get updated every time. So are we justifying the names of brands like branded schools or hi tech institutions having AI, Robotics, coding all inclusive?
Ponder over!
(About Author: Leena Rai Kalra, Team Leader, The National UN Volunteers-India, Principal-cum-Trainer, Chairperson UN Global Compact India)
FOUNDATION, NON-FOUNDATION AND EYEWASH
The education industry is getting business oriented these days and linked individuals are becoming business persons and not industrialists,talking on ROI figures only. And alas! the employer/management is either foreigner to education industry or the so called NRI's entering into the safe zone of minting money with lesser pressure and efforts.
One such trend in schools prepare us all to ponder over the gravity of the situation. Some of them in India have categorized students into sections like foundation, non-foundation etc only on the basis of performance in the form of scores, thereby cultivating the inferiority complex amongst them or preparing them only to be the products after processing of raw materials instead of making them productive, skilled and adaptive to challenges or ups and downs in life. They are just creating the content to fulfill their expectations and to remain in competition with their competitors to prove their own edges where they remain successful to certain extent but the score and position remains the only benchmark in the annals of school's success except when a few take the untrodden path of their own to carve their own niche.
For me as an educator this always remain a question along with the question to those institutions producing the grads and postgrads in bulk with no necessary knowledge and poor IQ or the know hows of current scenario in the country, the question to those who are village natives, got degrees but could not explore the real knowledge or wisdom or don't want to get updated every time. So are we justifying the names of brands like branded schools or hi tech institutions having AI, Robotics, coding all inclusive?
Ponder over!
(About Author: Leena Rai Kalra, Team Leader, The National UN Volunteers-India, Principal-cum-Trainer, Chairperson UN Global Compact India)
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