Reorganise educational system

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It is time to reorganise our educational system in schools and colleges destroyed by the DPEP and the subsequent grading system. The grading system in schools is a big folly as there is little healthy competition among students to excel themselves and exhibit their ability. All thrashes are placed in A grade and hence  hard-working children are humiliated.

Though more institutions are opened in unaided sector the quality of education has been dwindled by the poor quality of teachers. When government and aided schools pay good salary for the teacher unaided schools give only meagre sum as salary for teachers. In colleges the guest lecturers are doing the good chunk of job while the senior teachers simply relax with little job.  Though there is good infrastructure in some of the Arts and Science Colleges in the State students are not attracted for conventional courses. It is time to replace the grading system into conventional marking system and the students passing with ranks and distinctions should be honoured for their good work. Efforts to rebuild our entire system are very urgent otherwise our students would turn into lazy idiots having no vision for the future.

A review for examination system  should be considered  by appointing external  examiners and all the irregularities made by some self-financing colleges for hundred percent  result should be checked.  A university should not open its off-campus facilities in the premise of another university. It is not necessary to invite foreign universities to set up their complexes of our State, and if there is enough money for one to join a foreign university he should be permitted go abroad and study. More awards and scholarships must be instituted to attract more students to studies of pure sciences.  The college and school teachers should be further trained, and they should be restricted not to involve  active politics. We need no Professor Ministers. We need only professors who are good teachers.

K A Solaman 
Published TNIE on 9 July 2012