higher education in india..!

The state of higher education in india is highly deplorable. The course curriculum of most of the universities are not updated regularly and the lackadaisical attitude of students and faculty have given rise to a system which is basically concerned with clearing exams .Neither students nor teachers have desire to delve deeper into a topic and in most cases ,the so called learning is superficial. There are universities where same questions keep appearing in exams year after year.

We cannot expect decent R&D with this state of higher education. Most of the government labs are practically defunct and the research undertaken is for namesake only. Moreover, the state of our country has given rise to a culture where our so called bureaucrats are held in higher esteem rather than people involved in science and technology. Its no wonder that a large section of our youth dream to become a bureaucrat rather than a scientist involved in pursuit of knowledge.

Our higher education is in urgent need of reform. There should be stress on concept building and real life applications rather than cramming facts . Otherwise, our huge demographic dividend can turn out to be a nightmare as we will never become competitive in the absence of indigenous innovation.