Tag: education policy

We Said Universities Would Be Redundant. We Never Said That About Teachers!

In 2014 we wrote that schools, colleges and universities as currently constituted would be redundant by 2035. Nine years from that deadline, here is what the same chapter said about teachers — and the one recommendation in it that India has ignored.

What Technology Vision 2035 wrote about teachers, and what we have done about it since

Let me begin with a sentence I helped write, which is not a comfortable one to read out on Teachers’ Day.

In 2015, at TIFAC, we prepared Technology Vision 2035 for the country. It set out twelve prerogatives that every Indian should be able to count on by that year, and the sixth of them was quality education, livelihood and creative opportunities. The chapter opens with this: “Schools, colleges and universities as currently constituted will be redundant in 2035.”

There are nine years left on that clock.

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Your Child Is a Lead: The Trade in Honest Applicants

She filled in the form honestly. Her details were sold before anyone read it. She was called by someone who sounded official and steered somewhere she had not chosen. At no point did her family attempt anything dishonest — and at no point did the system protect them.

In my last piece I wrote about parents who go looking for a shortcut, and about the ecosystem that has grown up to sell them one. There is a fair objection to that piece: most parents never make that call. What about them?

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