Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh recently said that India's education system is in a serious crisis, India's economic growth poses a threat.
From the outside, the Indian education system has trained hundreds of millions of outstanding graduates, their hard work, good at math, master the technology, but also fluent in English. With that impression to people, Singh's comments are certain to make them feel shocked.
On the success of a few elite schools of concern, especially for Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management's concern, so that people overestimate the Indian education system in cultured human.
A recently published report highlighted the higher education system in India There is an inherent waste of human resources, even in the severe labor shortages, a large number of graduates to be employed. "India is the poor state of higher education in general, for the supply of qualified human resources constitutes a serious constraint," India's Director, Institute for International Economic Relations, said Rajiv Kumar.
The Indian government has committed to higher education, a "large-scale investment." Singh said: "The expansion of investment in higher education has become increasingly urgent, because if the school-age population, less than 8% of people going on to college or university, we can not continue to claim to be an emerging 'knowledge power'." Although the Indian government is trying to raise investment in education to 6% of gross domestic product, but almost no one believes that the worsening skills shortage will be a temporary situation.
The total number of Higher Education in India a sharp increase in enrollment from 1947 to 10 million to 10.5 million in 2005, but each student has received public funding between 1991 and 2003 dropped by nearly 30%. India's investment in higher education equivalent to only 0.5% of gross national product, while still allowing the existence of unfair distribution systems. The system will be 85% of central government funds were allocated to a few of the elite institutions, while the number of students in these institutions account for only 2% of the total number of students.
In order to be elite universities such as medicine and engineering professional disciplines enrolled students between the competition is very intense, because only access to these schools is possible after graduation to find a decent job. "We need a large-scale expansion of the education system capacity," India's leading software company Infosys Technologies CEO Nandan Nilekani said, "For a country with 10 million people, the country has only seven Indian Institute of Technology College, and only one-point could decide our children's future, which is very sad. "
India's university graduates, the unemployment rate reached 17.2%, higher than the national overall unemployment rate. It is estimated that nearly 40% of the graduates can not find gainful employment. For graduates interested in the type of work, many of them are "lack of talent or ability." After graduation endure a long period of unemployment, they can only accept low-level clerical jobs.
Problem begins with far lower age. Although primary education (age 6 to 14 years) had an enrollment rate of close to 100%, but literacy rates are still below 70%, the average dropout rate as high as 31%. India's Planning Commission cited a recent study found that, in the last 4 years of schooling of the children.
From the outside, the Indian education system has trained hundreds of millions of outstanding graduates, their hard work, good at math, master the technology, but also fluent in English. With that impression to people, Singh's comments are certain to make them feel shocked.
On the success of a few elite schools of concern, especially for Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Management's concern, so that people overestimate the Indian education system in cultured human.
A recently published report highlighted the higher education system in India There is an inherent waste of human resources, even in the severe labor shortages, a large number of graduates to be employed. "India is the poor state of higher education in general, for the supply of qualified human resources constitutes a serious constraint," India's Director, Institute for International Economic Relations, said Rajiv Kumar.
The Indian government has committed to higher education, a "large-scale investment." Singh said: "The expansion of investment in higher education has become increasingly urgent, because if the school-age population, less than 8% of people going on to college or university, we can not continue to claim to be an emerging 'knowledge power'." Although the Indian government is trying to raise investment in education to 6% of gross domestic product, but almost no one believes that the worsening skills shortage will be a temporary situation.
The total number of Higher Education in India a sharp increase in enrollment from 1947 to 10 million to 10.5 million in 2005, but each student has received public funding between 1991 and 2003 dropped by nearly 30%. India's investment in higher education equivalent to only 0.5% of gross national product, while still allowing the existence of unfair distribution systems. The system will be 85% of central government funds were allocated to a few of the elite institutions, while the number of students in these institutions account for only 2% of the total number of students.
In order to be elite universities such as medicine and engineering professional disciplines enrolled students between the competition is very intense, because only access to these schools is possible after graduation to find a decent job. "We need a large-scale expansion of the education system capacity," India's leading software company Infosys Technologies CEO Nandan Nilekani said, "For a country with 10 million people, the country has only seven Indian Institute of Technology College, and only one-point could decide our children's future, which is very sad. "
India's university graduates, the unemployment rate reached 17.2%, higher than the national overall unemployment rate. It is estimated that nearly 40% of the graduates can not find gainful employment. For graduates interested in the type of work, many of them are "lack of talent or ability." After graduation endure a long period of unemployment, they can only accept low-level clerical jobs.
Problem begins with far lower age. Although primary education (age 6 to 14 years) had an enrollment rate of close to 100%, but literacy rates are still below 70%, the average dropout rate as high as 31%. India's Planning Commission cited a recent study found that, in the last 4 years of schooling of the children.
