How to improve teacher - student ratio in India?

Good students often don't opt for teaching as a career since they don't get good salary which they het in other MNCs. Only those students opt normally for teaching as a career who are not so good students in their career. So, if we give handsome salaries to teachers, they will stick to teaching profession and other good students will also get attracted to this profession resulting in improvement of teacher student ratio and quality in education.

We all are aware that " Teaching is the most Noble Profession"...

Its time now, to actually make it more Noble, more rewarding, more promising, more attractive, more beneficial, more perk oriented, more work friendly... So that more & more Educated Youth, Opt fr this Profession...

This can EFFECTIVELY IMPROVE THE TEACHER - STUDENT RATIO !

This can only be done by the Govt. & our Hon' PM, since it hs to start country wide & right from the Grass Roots. The Private Schools & Colleges have proved this & so, the supposedly Best Teaching Talent is with them.

Just SALARY ALONE will not be the answer... a lot of what I mentioned above will have to be part of the ATTRACTIVE BOUQUET, Offered to future Teachers.   

NGOs should show an innovative methods to provide education to them both in schools and out of schools to them by adapting some innovative methods and advocate with government to pay more attention to the educational needs of the vast number of out of school children and youth.  Otherwise, NGOs and other organizations of the civil society become silent spectators of this unfortunate massive human tragedy.

Non Formal Education could be a viable means to provide basic education to those who would have been excluded from education if the countries rely only on formal primary education alone. They are working hard to convince the government to pay more attention to this problem. According to Peter Bowden, NGOs influence is becoming more significant in:
(a) Making the people as the center of the development objective;
(b) Making the people self reliant through the formation of saving and credit groups, micro credit, lunching small scale income generating enterprises, marketing etc.
(c) Making the development process participatory involving the people in real sense i.e. in planning process, implementation and evaluation of community based programs;.
(d) Maintaining flexibility in planning, implementation and evaluation of the programs taking into consideration of the people’s culture and tradition

Of around 200 million Indian children ages 6–14, only 120 million attend primary school.
• About 60% of the 80 million children who are out of school, or enrolled but not attending school, are girls.
• More than half of all students who start school do not complete a basic education. Only 35.6% of boys and 19.7% of girls finish middle school.
• About half the states and territories, including urban areas, were untouched by the educational reform process of the 1980s. Therefore, tremendous diversity in access and quality of education exists between regions.
• Educational performance gaps also exist within regions. Boys, the wealthy, and children with high social status perform better than girls, the poor, and children from lower castes.

Right to Education Bill has been passed. This is not enough. Want more schools and teachers.

Already the situation is alarming.

First Govt. schools and Govt. aided schools  mostly in rural and semi-urban places :

--  One teacher is seen to manage four classes in some schools in villages - total students 250.

--  Schools affected by Maoists activities - no classes for long

--  Mid-day meal/s have fetched more students - but no appointment of teachers. Some of the 'teaching time' is being consumed for preparation of meals

--  There is no school building - students are being taught under trees despite hot weather

----- Remedies : Increase Education Budget, appoint more teachers, arrange reasonable salary for them, take help from (reputed) NGOs - they may bring in volunteers who may agree to teach with lower salaries. Appeal to retired teachers and retired people to volunteer to teach. Activate those "Para-teachers" who may even allot some more time for teaching, ask present teachers to take extra initiatives etc.

Private Schools : In towns, cities and metros :

The Management of such schools run schools for profit making. The teachers are paid lower / lowest salaries despite hefty sum is taken from students.  

-- Pay resonable salary to teachers - dont change teachers frequently

--  Appoint teachers as per their knowledge and skill - not for 'relation' with the Management

--  If Management is charging extra ( frankly there are so many extra charges ) - provide services for. If charging for Computer classes - arrange such classes in true sense.

--  Maintain adequate teacher / student ratio ( U bost of being educated teachers - U should know the ratio )

It is clear in India as of this instant there are more studentsto be taught than teachers. Moreover the teachers present are not motivated, prepared or capable to become a coach to the students.

However Technology has gained porgress by leas and bounds. Even the rural population have learnt to use a cell phone and an internet. So what is needed are Business Leaders who have finance to invest in a plan to prepare and present a technology based virtual classroom solutions giving guided solutions to all schools in urban and rural locations which can stand in support of making the teacher to cover more children per class. This virtual tech based solution could also be made highly interactive and internet savvy and can be made to reach, if not each, but most of individual students population. This way all will get a highly learning concept oriented, process based and a standard and consistent learning experience, where a physical presence is more to map the student's need to be guided and coached. This will also remove one;s dependency on an individual teacher as all may not be prepared and capable at a same optimum level.  

Such efforts are being discussed at the central government level with many of the MNC who have been delivering such solutions to US market space and we at MRCC are one of them. Actually the current situation is so ripe for such a solution as India is having the right IT infrastructure & technolgy base. With th Government keen to improve the education backbone in India, the technology base being ready to serve as vehicle, NOW is the time make a solution happen. 

Ananth [09920278318]