Posts

Showing posts with the label Increasing commercialisation of education in India

Increasing Commercialization of Education in India and its side effects?

Image
In 2008, I first wrote about this issue at  Increasing Commercialization of Education in India  and that time, it was the start of commercialisation of education to earn huge money by exploiting the innocent students and their parents. After 7 years, the situation has even become worst and thanks to the negative attitude of progressive governments towards education and especially towards government schools and institutes, private universities and colleges are making rich even richer. I am not against private institutes and private universities, but I feel that every person should have access to good and quality education at an affordable price. In the last few years, the quality of government-backed institutes has decreased drastically while the spread of private players has increased many times. Some of these private institutes and universities are doing good jobs; however, many of them are here to make money only. Recently, my wife took admitted to B. Ed in a famous...

Increasing commercialisation of education in India

Image
In recent times, we are witnessing a new trend in India and due to this trend; today education has become a way of earning lots of money for businessmen, politicians and bureaucrats. For most of these entrepreneurs, education is nothing more than a way of making good returns from their investments and due to this reason, they are charging huge amount of fees from students, while students mostly have no option in their hands except to give these fees in the hope of getting a good education and later good future. Read -  Increasing commercialization of education in India and its side effects             Control of Rich and politicians on Education in India We can easily give the example of flourishing MBA colleges across India where average annual fees are around 5-10 lakh rupees; however, the facilities provided by these colleges are much below average levels. Most of these colleges remain more interested in making good bucks than providin...