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Wanted : 10 Lakh Teachers
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 :
*
Challenge
of Education ...... ( http://hcpreports.blogspot.in/2016/01/challenge-of-education.html
)
*
Dr
BabaSaheb Ambedkar University...... (http://hcpreports.blogspot.in/2016/01/dr-babasaheb-ambedkar-university.html
)
*
Enrollment
of Girls ....(http://hcpreports.blogspot.in/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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