“Misadventures in education”

“Misadventures in education” is a a very apt title given by the authors M.V.Rajeev Gowda  and Shahana munazir to their article in the Hindu ( 2.8. 18) All the problems they have high lighted in this write up reveals  the lack of seriousness of the various governments which have been ruling   us so far, while framing   from time to time the Education Policies . All the vital recommendations of  various committees have been thrown away  or tried with half hearted and adhoc  approach .Education sector  is subjected  to  maximum of cruelty without realising the fact that, it plays a very vital role in the lives of millions of our youth and human capital formation . After starving this sector with inadequate fund allotment and layers of regulatory system dominated by corruption  and lack of academic freedom,  what quality enhancement can be expected ? We can dream about global ranking  for  our elitist institutions, but , what percentage of our youth are going to be benefited by it? It is  like raising a super  structures with state of the art facilities when all our primary schools, secondary schools and government colleges cry for good quality teachers,  practical oriented and  need based  syllabi, adequate funds for infrastructure facilities and research ,  more academic freedom and  corruption free appointments for the regulatory bodies .The pathetic quality of engineering  education is reflected when, the corporate sector declares that only 25% of their graduates are employable directly. What a about  the remain  75% ? They will remain unemployed and under employed for decades resulting in wasting of precious  human resource ?  let the government   first fix the basic problems in the a school level   and remove corruption in the higher education system  and give up trial and error experimentalism in the education sector.