This education scam: why Indian educational system is scam —A torrent of system flaws and why we call this system a scam
The educational system, for a long time, has been criticized for all its weaknesses, including many who term it to be a scam. The term “scam” might sound quite a bit harsh, but when one digs deeper, the layers of inefficiency, corruption, and systemic flaws reveal, it can be quite convincing. The following paper attempts to discuss why the Indian education system seems to be a scam and how it affects millions of students every year.
- Irrelevant Curriculum
Irrelevance: Many of the curricula in schools and colleges in India are outdated and irrelevant in the real world. Students are made to learn by rote; the information they are taught either has very little or no practical application in life. Subjects like coding, digital literacy, critical thinking, and financial education are either absent or not put on the spotlight.
Rote Learning: Emphasis on rote learning kills creativity and inquisitiveness. Students are judged by their capability to memorize and regurgitate information, not by the understanding and applying concepts. This method not only hampers intellectual growth but makes education monotonous and unsatisfactory. - Examination-Centric Approach: A system that promotes examinations acts as a major limitation on learning. The curriculum, with its examination-centric approach, suppresses learning for understanding; rather, it becomes learning to pass.
Pressure-Cooker Environment: The Indian education system puts a lot of pressure on students to come out with flying colors in the examinations. This obsession and emphasis on marks and grades over holistic development create a high-stress environment. It has resulted in severe mental health issues, including anxiety, depression, and even suicides among students.
Narrow Definition of Success: Success within the Indian education system is defined in terms of academic performance very narrowly. However, students who might excel in other fields, such as the arts, sports, or entrepreneurship, are generally dismissed, thus losing a lot of talent and potential. - Lack of Skill Development
Un-employability Crisis: A large chunk of Indian graduates remain unemployable despite possessing a degree due to the lack of practical skills in them. The educational system is too much theoretically oriented, and thus, because of this, the students turn out ill-prepared to tackle real challenges. The result has been a growing chasm between education and employment, with many employers complaining that freshers are not job-ready.
No Soft Skills: Communications skills, teamwork, leadership, and problem-solving are imperative in any workplace environment today. The Indian education system, however, manages to disregard these and only concentrates on performance-based academic performances. - Corruption and Commercialization
Capitation Fees and Donations: Exorbitant fees, donations, and capitation fees are charged for admission to every course by the majority of private educational institutes in India, even for courses that do not assure quality education. This makes it all a commodity to be purchased by whosoever can afford it. - Diploma Mills: Various institutions are acting as diploma mills in nature, selling degrees whose value is minimal if not absent at all. These schools capitalize on the desires that students bear, subjecting them to paying relatively high fees for low-quality education systems, which render the degrees useless at the end and accumulate vast debts.
Urban-Rural Divide: Great inequality lies in the quality of education between urban and rural areas. They might get better facilities, qualified teachers, and modern technology in the urban sector, whereas students in rural areas pose challenges in the form of inadequate infrastructure, unqualified teachers, and a lack of basic resources.
Gender Inequality: A glaring point is the gender disparity in education, which reflects more in rural areas. Girls are usually deprived of the right to study further due to social norms, early marriages, and lack of finances, thus continuing the cycle of poverty and inequality. - No Innovation and Research
Stagnant Educational Practices: Indian education is unresponsive to change and innovation. The classrooms are dull with traditional teaching that seeks no tiny space for new ideas and experimentation to come through. This stagnation has choked creativity and innovation, the vital drivers of progress in any society. - Neglect of Research: Research and development are the backbones of a progressive education system. In India, there is a lack of sufficient funding, resources, and encouragement for the same. Resultantly, Indian institutions fall behind in global rankings, and a student fails to get adequate opportunities to indulge in some meaningful research work.
- The Coaching Center Culture:
Parallel Education System: Coaching centers have given rise to a parallel education system in India. Many students depend on coaching centers to crack competitive exams, wherein the students are not prepared from normal schools and colleges. This further commercializes education, as such coaching classes charge exorbitant fees from their students, adding to their burdens and those of their parents.
Unethical Practices: Many coaching centers practice different unethical manners such as leaked examination papers to keep up their high success rate. It deteriorates the basic foundation of the education system, and the students grow up with this cheating culture, looking for shortcuts. - conclusion
- But the so-called quality education for all had not worked out in the Indian system of education, for other reasons as well. It was commercialized and, apart from the outdated curriculum, examination-centric approach, and lack of skill development, systemic flaws and corruption turned education into a scam where students often turn out to be left with degrees and no skills or opportunities at all.
It requires this shift from rote memorization to skill development, from marks toward holistic development, and from commercialization toward accessibility and equality. Only then will the objective of the Indian education system truly be able to: to educate and empower the next generations.READ MORE BLOGS
Unfulfilled Potential: Parsing the Factors Constraining India from Reaching Its Full Growth
With huge resources and a young population, there exists immense potential in India to grow and develop. Despite this, the country has not been able to realize this potential fully, especially in the education sector. Some of the prominent challenges that acts as barriers to progress in India are bad quality education, poor skill development, and lack of employment opportunities. These will have to be comprehensively addressed to unlock the full potential of this nation.
Challenges Within the Indian Education System
Low Quality of Education: Despite huge efforts to improve access, instruction quality remains a huge threat. Most of the institutions still follow old curricula that are extremely irrelevant for modern times and therefore cannot equip students with competencies needed for the modern workforce. This leads to an enormous deficiency in critical thinking, creativity, and practical knowledge among the graduates.
Lack of Skill Development: Most of the Indian education system has an emphasis on rote learning instead of development of skills. Thus, the students, at large, are not equipped with the competencies needed in an increasingly changing global economy. Due to this gap in skills, it becomes difficult for most of the young population to get meaningful employment.
High unemployment rate: Their interaction has resulted in a high unemployment rate, with the most affected being the youths. Many graduates find it difficult to have jobs that relate or match their qualifications, and as such they become frustrated and underemployed despite having various degrees.
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