Mediocrity in education sector

Education sector is considered as noble profession. Professionals working in this sector spread the knowledge and mould students to build modern India .India is considered as country with large pool of qualified professionals.

But the question is how many students with valid qualifications are really employable. We are seeing lot of institutions coming up every year, offering courses in various fields. There is explosion in terms of quantity of qualified students .But quality of these students is questionable.

Who is responsible for this mess? Ofcourse, professionals working in this field are responsible. Education sector is the last priority for talented students .It doesn’t offer them enough monetary incentives. Neither it offers a fast track career .Only those students opt for education field who can not compete in the industry .How can one expect such average professionals to build above average students. There are people in this profession who cannot communicate properly. Some people do not have adequate knowledge of the subject. Some institutions are only interested in generating admissions. But when it comes to delivery of quality education, they fail. In some of the institutions classes are also not conducted .I have come across students doing post graduation in management who cannot speak English .

I think the root cause of this problem is that education sector is highly regulated. It is still governed by antique norms .It should be deregulated. Institutions should have free hand in deciding how they run organization. Let them compete on the basis of merit. When level playing field is provided, only those institutions will survive who are fit to be present in this sector. Such institutions will have to bring in good professionals. They will have to provide better infrastructure. They will have to engage in the activities that really add value to students. When industry was highly regulated, customers were the losers who got bad products and services .As soon as deregulation was undertaken across sectors, markets started growing rapidly and customers got delighted. Due to deregulation, old players had to rethink about ways they were doing business. Today we have Indian business houses dominating the global business scene.

Similar kind of an initiative should be undertaken in education sector also, so that we have world class institutions which mould students to compete on global level. Only then we will be able to say with great pride that we have large pool of quality students.