What Education reforms you want to see to reduce the burden on students?

I think this is the biggest stressors for some students at the college level as many of them will have considerable debt in the form of education loans, in order to afford tuition fees, campus accommodation and textbooks. Quite often this is a source of great concern for a student who is straight out of high school.

Whilst the debt alone is stressful, the need to service this debt can cause the student to over-extend themselves. This might mean that they have to take on a second job or work long hours as an employee and a student at the same time. This could have knock on effects with the ability to concentrate on their studies which could lead to failure of their course. This would prove stressful. And many times we see these students commit suicide just because they failed in 1 or 2 subjects. So, in this regard Government should help students to get quality education at a affordable price and not like the way where even kindergarten kids will be charged lakhs together to get an admission.  If we reduce the cost of Education then we will see some change in the statistics of students committing suicide. We all need these young minds to take India to the next level, but the current education system is depriving us of many such people.

In order to reduce excess stress, the Syllabus & Methodology should have more & more Practical approach. So that Rather than Cramming a Concept, students can actually understand it from their Practical Experiences.

The education system in India is falling short at developing student's career. Why are many students committing suicide or find themselves stressful?

The reasons behind it are the tough syllabus and students participation. More to look into the matter closely:  There are two ends i.e Teachers and Parents.

The participation from both ends are required to make student less stressful.

There has been a big gap betwwen both and The participation not only from the teaches but also from the parents is required in order to fill up the gap.

The parents should keep monitoring, helping and becoming friendlier if child is lacking somewhere.

Whereas the teachers should motivate them and help them understand and respond to whatever is required in the subjects.

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The Main requirement for educational reforms should be universal syllabus for one and all in our nation.This shall be from elementry to 10th standard 0r PUC.

The ICSE,CBSE,State syllabus should be framed to a common one and it should be mandatorily followed throughout.

ThIs if followed can naturally do the needfull.

A complimentry would be to invite respective state Enterprise and Pvt blue chips for participation and provided tax benefits for the same.

This will naturally help for reduction of cost, improve educational standards

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I feel that students (Especially in professional courses) are given too little time to complete vast portions. Eventually they end up mugging a particular text-book and tend to forget whatever they have studied once the exams are finished.

To avoid this , the students should be allowed to spend equal time on both theoretical and practical applications. 

Equal importance should be given to both practical and theoretical knowledge.

The only measuring stick in education is marks. Ultimately pressure is mounting on students, teadchers and parents to see that wards improve their chances of getting good education by getting good marks.

Getting good job by getting good marks.

Diverting the parents towards vocational cources can reduce the pressure on students for getting marks and they will improve their skills to get better living.

From childhood itself they can become enterpenural.

Govt. educational institutions should bring all necessary reforms in this context.

more emphasis on practical knowledge and industry oriented course structure.........choices between subjects.............. and at least one sport compulsory for everyone  which can be helpful against obesity (as it is increasing tremendously among children)  and can also act as stress buster.........   

I think the whole system from the grass root level has to be changed. In these days we can clearly see that even from primary schools children are stressed to face the so called " Race for Life". I strongly believe that education at school standards must be in such a way that it helps a student to understand what are their capabilities and how they can select a career so that they could fully utilize their skills. Instead what we have here is school managements pressurizing those little minds and pushing them for better marks so that management can say "Oh look! We are the number one..! Join and be a part of this institution...!!!"

                 I am not saying that mark system has to be fully removed. It must be there as some students must be forced a little bit to study :). But it must be given a secondary importance. What must be given prime importance is that to discover skills and interests of students by themselves and to help them to decide what is best for them. For this to happen, not only the school managements but also the parents must be cooperative to excel their child to the best. I think this way we can have better doctors, engineers, inventors, artists etc

I feel there must be more to school education, like they must include, 1)psychology 2) choice of foreign languages like either German, French or Sanskrit and 3) Music as compulsory courses along with your streamline curricullum. Psychology helps in Objective selection in later years of skill development,  a foreign language and music helps in freeing time later years learning them and musci is a stress buster. Moreover craming them with just science and mathematics without these stress busters can be dreadful. 

education if made aptitude based ,can provide students with a option to access there abilties .it should be done in parallel to formal studied because that is inescapble and crucial for holistic development of callow brain.doing away with theoritcal learning is not a apt practice it should be instead imparted along with pratical illustartion ,so that it can teach students its  relevance in real world .rest has been already mentioned by other participants .

In my view, more emphasis should be given on practical learning instead of theoretical knowledge. Instead of blindly following the books, teachers should encourage students to know why these things happen. Teachers should encourage students to learn things by doing more and more practical. Also instead of marks system, grade system should be applicable from the primary class so that students never afraid from examinations and they don’t leave studies due to the pressure of getting marks above 90%. In exams also, equal importance should be given to practical. In schools games participation should also be encouraged by teachers.

Recently the movie 3idiots have changed the mindset of the people and it says the truth of success, it says- "Learn excellence and success will be at your footstep". Students must be encouraged to learn about the things they are interested in then the work will be fun rather then a pressure. So now its the time to be excellent in one field and not the jack of all. So parents and teacher help there child to find there interesting subject and make them what they want to become and not what there parents want them to become then they will create history.

Let the child not know it is syllabus, test material, i have to prepare for exam, i have to pass, i have to maintain distinction or else my parents will scold me, let there be more interaction between the teacher and the students, reforms like usage of audio/video ancillaries in education system and more than anything listed in all debates, please empower the teachers and train them to motivate them and increase their morality and commitment either by rewarding or by punishing them or else the Idea in question is beyond reach.

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I beleive, exam pattern is not the best to make us learn concepts and in-deapth understanding of the subject.I am firm beleiver that one must be rated according to his/her understanding of the subject and not upon the marks which they get by our present exam system.

Dont try to measure ones memory, but their analytic skills shd be measured. Open book exam system would help to do it

We are allowing all the institutions do the business of education, Institutions are opening on daily basis in India, one or the other will have and inaugration ceremnony for opening a faculty or branch, still inspite of this we we put our children to tutions and courses with similar or higher fees...what the hell is going on...we are asking our children to get educated or promoting hte business of education.......are we ambassdors of the institutions and the tution classes.....are we not teaching our children that get going behind money because we (your parents) have spent a lot on you...so earn more money....to spend that money like a stupid on the next generation education....guys where are we heading to......what this ideate is for ....is it going to help the children in the next generation.....who is going to listen to us...this is mere waste of time.

Education is one of the basic requirements for every citizen. It should be made as basic right of every body and the government should radically reform the education policy in this line. Let all the educational Institutes declared nationalized and all students get equal opportunity for education irrespective of rich and poor. 

Our Education system is governed by the bodies responsible of making the people Educated.

All the schools are different. A boy switches schools, he has to adapt entirely to a new environment, study pattern, everything. Somewhere inside he feels, all his experience from past is irrelevant for the present. A Generalist till Class 10th, all of a sudden has to make a paradigm focus shift from Science sst Math, english and sanskrit, only to find that now he has to chose only one among the all subjects he read till then. Isn't this choice discomforting?

Then again post 12th, he has to go for grads, same Cycle repeats, Post Graduation, the same vicious cycle repeating.

Making at least four Paradigm attitudinal and perception shifts, a child is barely left decisive.

Then he is supposed to look for JOB?

and he has no practical exposure to back him there, all the 17 years of education feels vague in front of the new experience he gets, hence he again has to change by a paradigm.

I feel the Education System should focus on making this abrupt process more smooth and transition mode easily practicable.

It can be done by telling a class Vth student, why he needs to study all that he has to study in 6th class.

It can be done by telling the students that they can asses their core intrest areas in class 9th itself, because many proffessional diplomas also engage 10th pass.

I donot say students need to be exposed to all aspects of society.

But if we can afford to keep them in vacuum till junior highs, cant we be generous enought to guide them through their life transitions by giving them planned exposures.

Companies look for Employable people not educated people.

Education was started by Brits to get cheap labor in India, wherein they would not have to import costly clerks from UK, and the education imparted was made with a motive of imparting knowledge to the seekers that would only lead them to be good clerks-

the whole purpose have not been sorted out till date and only some reforms have been made, i remember reading my NCERT Books and i remember seeing the changes that were made it was shoking to know that the contents were same for ages,

the to be thought should have relevance to the current world scenarios and current practices,

fortunately and unfortunately our eduction is the most comprehensive text in the entire world but its without any directions.

i am sure if it has a direction then students will have less burden.

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Chandan