VidYouth

Youth is momentarily opting for proficient courses rather than generic arts strengthening the stand of the technical regime in our country. Early settlement and ample self employment opportunities are probably the consequent reasons for this phenomenon while parents’ backing is another root cause intensifying this act.

When inquired, why would any parent ask his children to pick a technical course uninterestedly though they are enthusiastic about learning something else which falls under this general degree category, ‘a graduate in general discipline can barely earn any penny while a professional degree holder can apparently sock his fare as a fresher’, was the answer conferred by them.

Boycotted Class rooms during the fight with HOD, Credit: Divina Eileen

“My son is weak at mathematics. Neither he did score much in his 12th standard nor was his Eamcet rank satisfying. I paid 4 lac’s to get him a seat in ECE branch here, which means that I am buying him a degree for 7 lac’s, if he troubles himself to complete it in  4 years”,  says Mr. K.V.Prasad, the parent of a fresher from a reputed engineering college, wearing a painful smile on his face.

On an average yearly 150 engineering colleges are spurting, while not all of them are certainly choked. No wonder, arriving of umpteen organizations offering the most happening courses indirectly boosted the occupational openings to the people in teaching field but are the lecturers justifying their constraint?

There are modes where a graduate who has just done with his course, is a professor in the same institute to his juniors.  “Our C lecturer is a 2008 pass out, from our college. Its not that a gleaming graduate should not teach but the thing is, the ideas we got to work on are not vivid to us at least to the basic level. Hand on the board, eyes on the paper. If he forgets the day’s topic sheet, he can’t take the class. I wonder if I can ever be a prime engineer” complains Vivek, another fresher.

A fresh graduate teaching in a reputed institute, Credit: Raghu

Its vivid that education system has become a business, in fact is the most profiting transaction, leaving behind the absolute values and the concept of bestowing knowledge. An organization with a sophisticated infrastructure, its connectivity to various parts of the city, accreditation is all that matters to the educational system con-temporarily. Presuming experienced faculty, imparting conceptual excellence, encouragement of new ideas, motivating spirit is now a mere expectation and hopefully is an honest learners dream for the moment.

Half a lac fee, one lac diplomats or more are into the Indian market per year and solely any of them are sound with the fundamentals. Demanding loads of money, institutions don’t even bother to offer students the rudiment knowledge which is rightfully theirs. Colleges that wary to justify can be count on fingers.

“I was shocked to hear the response of our HOD, when we approached him with a cavil. Our OOPS lecturer was supposed to be replaced as per the HOD’s will. When we inquired the same, he literally dismissed the statement about the issue. He continued to be careless and did not show up until and unless we students boycotted the classes the other day, in demand of an efficient professor” laments Benny a 2nd year student from DVR.

The scenario is no different in many of the organizations. Hardly have we found students satisfied with the faculty, no matter to which discipline they belong to in particular. ‘Why paying so much of money to the unworthy institutions while there are many academies, with ace professors costing not more than Rs.2000/- per subject, offering the same course but of  better quality?’,  is the latest question among  youngsters.

Freshers Set To Leave After The College Hours, Credit:Raghu

Academy Offering Tution for professional courses, Credit: Divina Eileen

If we persist to race for a degree from a recognized institute with no proper basics, getting one is easy, but in what way will it serve when one fails to practice it.  “We study, get a job and start studying right from the beginning for its application due to the lack of elementary awareness. We utterly could focus on the concepts as we were made to race for marks. Marks were all. We had striven for a degree then and now we are struggling to defend it” regrets Prabhu, a crude B.tech graduate.

Is there any other alternative apart from complaining, demurring, and wishing for a positive mutation in the system? Ultimately students are the payers and they are the sufferers.  A change in them will alone initiate the advancement in the educational system. Well, when and how is yet to be witnessed.