Indian Education System

Venkat Manohar M

St.Marys University

Abstract:
This paper explores four published articles on research conducted on Indian education system.
The articles however vary in their views on the system. Vijay Rajiv Yeravdekar and Gauri Tiwari
(2014) pounded on Contribution of Private Participants to the Indian Higher Education System.
Jayanti Kumari (2015) focuses on Publicprivate partnerships in education. This paper examines
Shelly Bhagats (2016) view on Ethical Indian Education System. On the other hand Dr. Sona
Kanungo (MAY 2015) emphasizes on Growth of higher education in India.

Key words: Literacy, higher education, University grants commission, Ethics and values of
Indian Education System, Teaching, Education, learning, Psychological challenges.
Literature Review
Numerous studies have been conducted on various phases of Indian education system. However,
contradictory results are suggested within this research because only certain aspects of literacy
rate are investigated.
About the Indian education system shelly Bhagat(2016) describes that the ancient Education
system of India was prosperous based on aptitude focused which encourage added to the
indicating limits and the insightful level close by the learning of social legacy, regard for
commitment towards nation, and practically the amount of the understudies taking a premium
towards learning. Where Yeravdekar Vijay Rajiv (2014) discusses about the university system in
India which differ from the remaining nations. Mainly about the donations for the seats in the
universities.Dr.Sona Kanungo(may 15) tells that In the 12.5 billion population, 2.5 billion (25
crores) are youths between age group 15 to 24 years that is going to rise by 13% annually which
is much greater than the average growth rate in the world.

On the other side Shelly Bhagat (2016) discusses about the involvement of private universities,
he states that there is a rapid growth of private universities in India than the public universities
which indeed increasing the cost of education and making the education complicated. Vice versa
due to lack of funds standards of public universities are dropping down which was forcing the
students to opt the private universities though they were unable to afford it. While Yeravdekar
Vijay Rajiv (2014) states that the private universities are selling the seats for higher prices for
those who can afford instead to the one who has the talent. Sona (may 2015) research stated that
Our higher education system is emerging as one of the largest education system in the world and
It is expected that 12th and 13th five year plans will be centered on expansion and development
of higher education. Therefore, India is emerging as an attractive market in higher education.
According to Shelly Bhagat (2016) education system should utilize the required strategies to
provide all the students with a series of relevant experiences which helps in analyzing the rules
and principle through discovery learning. However Yeravdekar Vijay Rajiv (2014) clearly states
that the educational system must change not by changing the procedure but by changing the
process of selecting an allotting the seats to the students by conducting proper exams, to the one
who are having talent but not by reservation system. The government must also increase public
universities so that it can provide education to all the population in India. Reservation system
must be taken off to treat all equally. University grants commission must make the rules strict for
every university. Sona (May 2015) indicates that NACC is established by University Grant
Commission (UGC) as an autonomous institution to assess and accredit institutions of higher
education in the country. Accreditation is a tool for managing quality of educational institutions.
Majority of educational institutions are in the jurisdiction of educational authorities. For

example, the institutions that provide Professional Education in India are affiliated to UGC or
AICTE.
Discussions:
The present worldwide higher instructive milieu is embodied by its distraction with rankings.
The between connectedness that has come about because of globalization has encouraged
methodization of advanced education frameworks the world over. The meeting up of endless
foundations on a bound together stage requires the rationale of benchmarking. The Indian
advanced education framework is an impressive nearness, at any rate as for the numeric quality
of containing establishments, and the mass of people that it covers. This is all the more
motivation behind why deficits in the advanced education frameworkwhich have come to be
something of an axiomare so disillusioning. The Indian Government has as of late made
awakening announcements to make great this shortfall and recast the nation as "learning
economy", purportedly by making advanced education a top national plan thing and making
world-class colleges. While this worry is welcome, there falsehoods a critical separation between
the estimation of similar data and activities to dispatch world class colleges that arrangement
producers have not noticed. The systemic difficulties that beset the Indian advanced education
framework are fixing to its long frontier history and also its present creating nation status.
Accordingly, it is vital to distinguish how well the captivation with delivering world-class
colleges serves the Indian higher training framework, and the general public on the loose. That is
to say, does this distraction identify with the prompt financial substances? The paper groups
research on worldwide rankings; reasons that clarify India's successful non-appearance in
worldwide rankings of advanced education establishments; and scrutinize of the Indian

Government's reality class colleges venture. The creators explore the concentrate to a great
extent through unmistakable and basic amalgamations of precedential distributed examination.
Global rankings are an inevitable aspect of higher education: internationalization and
commoditization of higher education have necessitated the logic of benchmarking institutions.
There lies a vast distance between the Indian academic system at present and one that can spawn
world class universities, much less the resources that would be required. The phenomenon of
constructive and purposeful ways to apply public funding than to make exorbitant investments to
get a few universities to feature in the global rankings.
CURRENT STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIA: Presently, there are around 16
million students which are expected to rise to 40 million in 2020. In India, 68% population will
be in the age group 15-64 years by 2020. This large young population will enable the country to
become global source of manpower. Indian education system is not withstands to provide the
knowledge to the students but encourages the values which are to be inculcated within an
individual to make a balanced life which will eventually leads to a successful life. The areas
discussed above should be well taken care of by the society, to maintain the progress and growth
towards the ethical and valuable Indian education system.
Conclusions: The assumptions that the involvement of private sector may contribute towards
allowing the profit motive to enter the field of education, increasing the cost of education must
be appropriately verified in advance. Cost cutting by private entities which often results in lower
teacher salaries and compromises with quality education should be checked by the government.
However, the involvement of private sector in the form of PPPs should not be envisaged as an
alternative to government education. Like many other countries, one of the crucial concern in
India is the lack of available information on the private education market. There is a need to

formulate a long term education strategy to invite private providers and to give potential
investors chance to invest properly. The emergence of newer providers of higher education has
rendered the quality control aspect of higher education more ineffectual than before. With PPPs,
government should look at which particular arrangement allows for the optimum transfer of
responsibilities and risks to the private sector to meet the desired objectives.

References:

Bhagat (2016). "Ethical Indian Education System- A Need of the Nation." The Shelly
International Journal of Indian Psychology 7th ser. 3.2 (2016): 100-04.Http://www.ijip.in. Web.
Mar. 2016.

Yeravdekar Vijay Rajiv, and Gauri Tiwari (2014) "The Contribution of Private Participants to
the Indian Higher Education System and the Impeding Role of the Regulatory Structure."
International Relations Conference on India and Development Partnerships in Asia and Africa:
Towards a New Paradigm (IRC-2013) 157 (2014): 330-33. Web. 10 Oct. 2014.

Dr. SONA KANUNGO -GROWTH OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN INDIAPROBLEMS

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Jayanti Kumari (2016). Publicprivate partnerships in education: An

analysis with special reference to Indian school education system