Times of India ( 21 Aug 2016 ) , carries a news report
titled :
" Nearly 10 lakh teachers posts vacant : HRD Ministry "
It goes on to say :
Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development
, Shri Mahendra Nath Pandey said on saturday ,
" There are 8-10 lakh posts of teachers lying vacant in
educational institutions , even as the government is taking initiatives to
clear the backlog and is also inviting suggestions to update the Education Policy , which
has not been revised since 1976
Though there is an acute shortage of teachers
, it has been created due to a backlog of posts lying vacant over years
In our country, the education policy is
not properly implemented as it was first made in 1962 and revised in 1976 . However , no government took initiative to revise it in all these
years
"
When Shri Pandey talks about " No government .... " , I presume ,
he includes the current NDA
government , as well !
He must be congratulated for being so
open and frank !
May be he came to read my following
suggestion , emailed to Smt
Smriti Iraniji , more than 2 years back
There is a lesson to be learned in the
fact that , recently against 3,000
vacancies of " Safai Kamdar ( sweepers ) , in UP , some 7 lakh persons applied (
including thousands of graduates / post graduates )
When India produces some 35 Lakh graduates EACH YEAR , why are they not applying for those 10 lakh vacant posts of
teachers ?
Hopefully, Shri Pandey
will find a answer in my email (which did get a computer generated acknowledgement
! )
He may also want to read :
* State of the Republic...... (http://myblogepage.blogspot.com/2014/03/state-of-republic.html
)
* Challenge of Education ...... ( http://hcpreports.blogspot.com/2016/01/challenge-of-education.html )
* Dr BabaSaheb Ambedkar University...... (http://hcpreports.blogspot.com/2016/01/dr-babasaheb-ambedkar-university.html
)
* Enrollment of Girls ....(http://hcpreports.blogspot.com/2014/04/enrolment-of-girls-compared-with-boys.html
)
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Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Apparently , no one ( or very few ) want to get into teaching
This is obvious from the number of faculty vacancies in AICTE approved
institutions , as shown below :
Faculty…………………………………… Teachers Required……. % age Vacancy
·
Applied Arts & Crafts………………………. 2,678…………………….. 56
·
Architecture and Town Planning………11,762…………………….. 51
·
Engineering & Technology……………..5,29,543……………………..28
·
Hotel Mgmt & Catering………………………..3245……………………… 43
·
Management……………………………………….61,610……………………..27
·
MCA………………………………………………….. 26,714……………………. 15
·
Pharmacy…………………………………………….31,421…………………….
20
Why such a poor state of affairs ?
According to leading Educationists , some of the reasons
are :
·
Poor salaries in
teaching profession
·
Stringent Quality Norms
·
Archaic Service Conditions
·
Little scope to earn thru consultancy
·
Very little
Industry-Interaction / Internship
·
Poor Research facilities
Even as Smritiji starts up a dialogue among the Stakeholders (
Students / Teachers / Educationists / Administrators etc ) , in respect of
formulation of a NEW EDUCATION POLICY , she would do well to frame an ONLINE QUESTIONNAIRE ( Yes / No : True
/ False : Multiple Choice ) and upload it on her Web site for people to
participate in thousands
What is wrong with our current state of Education and what needs to be done to fix
it , can only emerge from such a REFERUNDUM
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22 Aug 2016
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