Hi, came across this news article in print media today in the morning (here is the link.... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/education/news/88-of-IIT-B-students-say-professors-inept/articleshow/19435098.cms ). A sad story in itself, to say the least. Whatever may be the reasons, as cited in the survey, it reflects poorly on our education system. If such a thing can happen in the premier institute of the country, we can only imagine what would be the state in many other institutes that are being run as money making enterprises. At least at IIT, faculty had to devote time both to the teaching part and the research work; what about the scenario wherein faculty is employed in a multi-tasking mode. Needless to say that at the end of the day, students suffer, their parents suffer and this nation as a whole suffers because of such practices.
When people take pride in blowing their own trumpet and say that ' My institute has got X number of Ph.D. faculty members', they tend to compare such facts with some institutes that may (for all we know, may not be) be lacking such a profile. But you ask a student and he/she will tell you that when it comes to the teaching (and more importantly transferring knowledge), stamps (read qualifications) do not matter at all. A Ph.D qualified person, invariably, will be good at research as also in knowledge but there is no freaking guarantee that he/she will make a good faculty whose primary job (IF) is to impart quality education to the students who, in any case, are the biggest stakeholders in any given educational institute.
While at it, I am reminded of someone making tall claims about growth of an institute...... ''We are really growing'' or words to that effect. Funny it may sound but the fact remains that if size (or quantity or sheer numbers) were the parameter, a junkyard will always win over a jeweller's shop. What are we looking at? In an over-populated country like that of ours, it is no big deal to gather 110 heads and then claim growth even though 20 of them just leave of their own volition.
Winds of change are sweeping across the country, though not very obvious to those who choose to remain blind by choice. Sooner the system changes itself, better it would be or else day is not far when all such hi-fi institutes and 'stamps' will be trashed.
Our beloved EBS blackboard was OFF yet again. Starting Friday, we kept on banging our heads against an unseen wall but to no avail. No big surprise given the fact that a small correction in the attendance record of a student (read me) who had been erroneously marked absent by a faculty way back on 20 March 2013, has not been made despite a written request to the faculty who had promptly passed on the information, duly recommended to the person concerned.
Someone has started a facebook group titled 'EBS Confessions' recently. Reminds of similar groups of many other institutes ranging from Harvard to IITs to IIMs and many others. Great work! I am not on facebook but I have seen and heard about the same from others and it looks and feels like a great valve through which pressure gets released.
Weather is warming up and exams are due at the end of this month. It is literally heating up slowly and steadily. Time to preserve ourselves for the work ahead!
Take care!!
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