Education is poor in India. There are few schools and colleges. The course content is pathetic. Most teachers have poor skills and low motivation. Children and Teenagers hardly learn anything. Most of them learn by their own effort and/or private tuitions.
Worldwide, the landscape of education is changing. It is now possible to learn almost anything online. India can dramatically improve its education standards by embracing online education.
Here are the steps needed to be taken by India in the short term:
- Children/Teenagers need not attend school/college. They can learn online from their homes. They will appear for test physically at some school/college. On passing the exam, the certificate issued to them, will be same as those that had attended the school/college physically.
- No discrimination will be made, at any level, between an online and traditional learner.
- An online learner can at any time decide to attend school/college physically. Vice-versa, a traditional school/college attendee can convert to online learner.
In the long term, to improve education in India, we need to remove all government intervention. The private companies, run for profit, will build colleges/schools/online learning. No permissions will be needed from the government. The private companies will have the full power to decide their course content, what teachers to employ (if any), how much salary to pay to teachers, how to conduct exam, what fees to charge, issue passing certificates, etc.
Telecom communication was poor in India, when only government managed it with companies like BSNL and MTNL. Once private players will allowed into Telecomj, Airtel and Vodafone revolutionalized telecom. The same revolution is needed for education in India.
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