Dear Javadekar Ji

Dear Javadekar Ji

While appreciating the scarping of UGC, as old as independence of India, with huge funds and no futuristic vision but enjoying the centralism from top to bottom, I make the following suggestions in respect of University and college education in our nation. 

The admissions to all colleges in the country shall be made through a National College Admission Test like it is done in Peoples’ Republic of China or Japan or USA. There shall not be any passing score, instead it is up to colleges to accept or admit students belong in a score band. That is top colleges will accept top scorers.

The college (undergraduate) education shall be of four year duration. Courses shall cover all fields of science, arts, social sciences humanities and languages. But the students shall choose their major field of graduation in the third and fourth years. There shall be option for majoring in more than one subject.  

Four years of college shall educate our young Indians as well knowledged citizens when they come out of college. And exposure will be in a wide-ranging area of all the disciplines at least at an introductory level and individuals will be mentally readied for understanding many things that go on around. What I have in mind is the Chinese/American system.

The Post graduate (as we call it in India or Graduate school elsewhere globally) admission shall be again based on a screening test and again without out specifying a passing grade and very much like GRE – an equivalence rating test. The higher the score band, better is the chance for admission with fellowship for Masters and Ph.d. Programs.

In the school education for twelve years there shall be a college stream and non-college stream. With such structural reforms, the kids will have either an opportunity to learns science, mathematics, languages, history and humanities or highly employable skills soon after high school. 

Further, the current system of grouping the college pursuing students into science and non-science streams in the longer run will not be any help to the future these kids when they grow up as a national workforce. The non-college stream kids will come out the high school as wage earners if they are ready to work in scores of skills. There shall be a non-college stream at final school leaving stage. 

What I have also in mind is a course content framework, that is a downsized version of liberal education at the college level. 

Minister Ji, the present government has brought in deep structural reforms in the country. The area of education shall be far more futuristic and call for immediate action as the future of the nation will be affected drastically by the reforms implement or not implement now in the field of education.    

My mind says that the NEET exam is flawed in that there is a cut off score disproportionate to the number of potential seats or slots. This needs rectification.

Thanking  you

Sincerely

Dr. Thrivikramji.K.P.

Thrivikramji@gmail.co