Build education with value system: Kalam

December 10, 2006

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons & daughters of life’s longing for itself. You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thought” – Khalil Gibran Build education with value system: Kalam "I personally believe, when the nation is progressing towards economic development, it is also essential to build our education system with values drawn from our civilisational heritage," he said. Laying the stone for the International Institute of

Information Technology (IIIT), on the outskirt of state capital Bhubaneswar, the President said youths aspire to live in a peaceful, happy, prosperous and safe nation. "It means that economic prosperity alone is not sufficient. It has to be complimented with the value systems of our civilizational heritage, which has shaped the Indian people," Kalam said. "Though we may have series of problems, billion people have the connectivity that gives us the strength to meet those challenges, and institutions like IIIT have an important role to play," he said. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dear Friends, Please read “Indian Education Matrix” for targeting a big space of right change from “top to bottom” to “bottom to top” simultaneously. Ajay singh

Niranjan Blog: http://o3.indiatimes.com/Learning_Creation_Innovation Indian Education Matrix …. for more Please visit www.wakeupcall.org 1. Drop-out rate between KG to Class 10+2 is 93% 2. ‘License Raj’ in Higher & Technical education, restricting growth, R & D, quality and capacity. 3. Cash out-flow of about US$10 billion per year for Indian students leaving India for foreign Universities, because of lack of seats and quality education within India. These funds enough to build 40 IIM’s & 20 IIT’s per year! Consider the fact that 120,000 students leave for foreign Universities every year. 50% go for 2-year Master's courses and about 50% for 4-year undergrad courses. At about US$30,000 per year per student you will arrive very close to this figure. The RBI figure will never tally with this as a lot of funding for foreign studies is done indirectly! 4. Functional Literacy expected to be about 33% against Government’s figure of about 64%, but China close to 90% 5. Gaps in Skills development. Hardly 0.25% of

population covered at any given time versus required 7%, as in China and other countries 6. India has 7750 foreign students while Australia has 363,000 foreign students

7. India has 1.1 million schools vs 1.8 million in China 8. India has 363 Universities vs 900 in China 9.India has 5114 Vocational Education & Training Institutes vs 500,000 in China .>>>>>>>>>The dominant competitive weapons of the twenty first century will be the education and skill of work force>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> AJAY SINGH NIRANJAN [ If Problem exists .....Solution can not wait ...Think & Try ] NEW DELHI "I AM STILL LEARNING" .....Peter Senge

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