Ground Reality

Ahead of 72nd Independence Day , an eminent academician broached me with an idea of flagging road accidents issue for major reforms to save lives and aftermath tragedies afflicting victims’ families. He was ostensibly oblivious of the fact that my own family is smarting under perpetual agony and pain for five years after my elder brother’s talented son, who had come from Singapore after completing his business management course and was getting prepared for a lucrative job in India, was fatally run over by a speeding car. The DPS RK PURAM pass out Parth Bajpai was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was declared dead. The case was dismissed as hit and run incident, and the killer driver is still at large. Surprisingly, street cameras mounted near the central market, accident site were removed same evening and no footage was traced. My elder brother Pankaj resolved to bring unknown killer to justice, and hooked all his financial resources. His pleas to various bodies to fin...

AS THE WORLD   is all set to take a quantum jump in the international education, there is a dire need to effect massive transformation in the teaching sector with quality product and value for money. Statistics suggest that the need for international education will increase from meagre 1.8 million international students in 2002 to 7.2 million within next seven years.  This rise shall create huge challenges as well as opportunities. In the given scenario, India is sitting on a goldmine of opportunity to attract foreign students in universities as also to arrest the outward flow of talent.  Currently some 3,60000 students are going out of India for quality education abroad, draining some 1,30000 Crores rupees of foreign exchange, while the education budget of central government is around Rs. 85000 Crores. Internationalization at home and globalization of higher education should therefore form an important aspect of the strategic framework of India's...

As Unemployment is assuming alarming proportions in India, Eminent Academician Prof. PB Sharma, and President of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has asserted that new education policy, being framed now, should be targeted to boost employability of professional education, from currently 15-20 % to 120% on one hand and ensuring relevance of research and innovations to the needs of the society and industry at home on the other. He says it should also meet the regional and global aspirations, adding “ We need to align India's Education Policy to National Development to pay attention to creating “Advantage India” from the efforts we invest in education and research and make education a powerful vehicle of societal transformation., “ Unfortunately, the goal of successive education policies in the past revolved around increasing access in the name of increased Gross Enrolment Ratio, GER, in higher education and inclusive education being grossly misunderstood ...