In the last 9 years I had my good chance to visit more than a 1000 odd Colleges and Universities in India. I am writing this not because I provide IT-ICT solutions to them but because I genuinely feel about it.
Every chairman or director or principal that I meet is always highly interested in raising the bar of education of the students. Everyone wants best of the faculty and students with best school level grades to flock with them. But somehow that is not always possible. Its not possible for those 5 to 6 year young Institutes to attract the best and therefore they have to settle with what they get. They might be having world class facilities and infrastructure but then that is something that they all ought to have to survive the competition.
Now lets come to case of big established some 15 to 20 years or more old Institutions of India, here you can find experienced faculty (not probably the best though) and more demand in students/parents for them due to the heritage they enjoy. But they too are suffering because of the high rate of faculty turnover. The new booming education sector is eating up all top faculties from them and depriving them of the main USP that they have.
In this scenario what I am trying to say is that what is that one major difference that the TOP Colleges & Universities of the world have that our's are lacking. Why are our Top Universities no where in the TOP 100 Universities of the world. With my little understanding I think its the Use of Technology by the University & College Management, faculties and students to enhance learning which makes the basic difference.
Let me give you some specifics :
1. A large number of Indian Universities don't have the faculty that can use technology to share academic content with the students. Even when they have that kind of faculty the Universities don't invest in the technology that can provide platform for such interaction.
2. IT investment is still only judged in Indian Universities by the number of computers that they provide and on how powerful the Internet Bandwidth that they enjoy. Why do they don't consider the importance of quality academic content sharing with the students? Why don't they consider the importance of technology in managing the day to day activities of there large organizations using Technology solutions?
3. In India you can go to a restaurant or a small daily needs kind of shop and get a computerized bill, but you will not get a computerized bill for your fee payed in more than 5% of Colleges and Universities in India.
4. All Colleges in India still don't have even digital records of the Students they have or the the books in Library.
Top Universities of the world like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), University of Cambridge, Harvard University, University of Oxford, University of Chicago, Stanford University etc. are always working in the direction to make effective use of technology to improve standard in education. When India is so great a county in the IT sector then what is stopping the Indian Universities to utilize this aspect.
Do you agree with me that the "Use of Technology" is the main reason that is stopping Indian Universities for getting Globally recognized ?
I would like to request the readers of this article to share there comments on this.
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