South Indian Students Eager To Fly To UK

25,000 engineering graduates, in Bangalore alone, are produced every year. But a recent survey shows that more than 30% of them are not skilled enough to be employed. In other words, they don’t know what they’ve studied or why they took it up in the first place.

There may be several reasons for this such as parental pressure, and so on. But the Indian education system is one of the prime culprits.

The story behind all this is that a teacher invests about two hours per subject to cram in the facts, figures, and derivations concerning it. But very little is being done to introduce the subject in a holistic sense. The relevance of the subject in the real world is hardly being emphasized.

Considering the fact that the student does take pains to understand the subject on her own, more often than not, she meets a dead-end called exam, which reinforce the adage: curiosity killed the cat.

Some solutions to this are: Reduce the number of hours. Perhaps about one and half hours must be devoted to dwell on details concerning subject, and spend half an hour explaining its larger purpose and motivate them to study it.

Exams must be made as unpredictable as possible. Standard question patterns in exams is a deterrent to learning. In reality, its ignorance that kills the cat but curiosity gets framed. Grades must bank on project work, interviews, interaction with peers and professors and, most importantly, on classroom discussions.