Indian Education Advantages And Disadvantages

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Introduction: At the time of Indian independence, the India Population was 361.09 million (1951) [1]. At the time India had 30 government aided universities, 370 aided colleges [2] and 230,683 schools [3]. Between 1951 and 1991, the Indian economy has undergone a lot of changes. a) During the first five year plan, most important sectors were managed by the governments and public sectors had a very important role to play. b) The private enterprises in many infields were not encouraged and not the number of private unaided (self-financing institutions were very few) c) Since the flow of foreign capital was restricted, Most of the educated person was employed in government officers and the technical graduates were employed by the state owned …show more content…

Till now, the matriculation English medium school teaching a different syllabus and them making people believe that matriculation syllabus as far superior to Secondary School Leaving Certificate (SSLC). The +2 examination a example a typical rat race and every students in +2 aim at higher marks to so as secure admission in group engineering colleges. In their quest the children are send to private institutions for Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. The tuitions are conducted as a training ground for getting higher marks. The tuitions masters make enormous amount of money as charges for tuitions. Even the best and most intelligent student takes up them tuitions which need to be controlled. In spite of the presence of 553 engineering colleges in Tamil Nadu[11], and the number of students passing out +2 704,125 [12], the vacant seats in Engineering college are 79,673 (2013)[13]. The effects of students at the +2 level are directed to get seats in government aided engineering colleges only 8 in number and good private university and private engineering colleges. Inspite of favorable market conditions, a lot of engineering college in Tamil Nadu is not able to achieve break even due to poor intake of …show more content…

There is campus employment only for very few colleges and students from other colleges are not able to get lucrative employment their results in many bank loans becoming Non-Performing Assets (NPA). In the Arts and Sciences colleges, only the second best and less hard working students are admitted most of the courses in arts and sciences colleges have out dated syllabus and have no employability in Multi National Companies (MNCs). Bachelors and Masters Courses, and sometimes M.Phil and PhDs are unable to get rewarding employment A number of arts and sciences colleges are higher in the sided stream. Only very few arts and sciences colleges do not receive government aided. On the other hand only very few engineering colleges are aided by the government and most of the other engineering colleges are unaided. The cost of higher education for the government exchequer is very high for arts and science colleges with low returns for capital investors.

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