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Difference between Indian and US education system

It is difficult to say which system is better. Both education systems have their own benefits and drawbacks. Both the systems have managed to develop the legendary personalities and world leaders. Americans who have never been to India would never be able to understand the Indian education system and vice versa. If we analyse these two education system, we will find some similarities and some differences. It’s completely upon individuals to decide which system they would like to prefer. Before counting of difference let us take you through the basic structure of evolved educational system of both countries. Indian Education System A decade ago it was considered that one cannot get the world class education in India. However, the current trend has shown tremendous development in quality of education. Various research done in the past decade has highlighted the loopholes in curriculum. However, governing bodies had acted upon such drawbacks and brought some necessary changes. Syll...
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India needs to focus on its school and college education

India has been among the fastest-growing economies in the world in the last decade. However, low-quality education is crippling India's growth as its emerging workforce is unable to cope with the demands of a 21st-century economy. Countries like Thailand and Mexico that did not invest in education have struggled to maintain their growth, whereas a country like South Korea invested in quality of education to transition into an innovative economy. India too will get trapped in 'middle-income', if we do not act with urgency now to transform the quality of education delivered in our country. Traditionally, our efforts around education have focused on enrolment and not on children's learning. It is hardly surprising then that despite 97 per cent enrolment in Class 1, only 35 per cent reach Class 12 and less than 20 per cent enroll into higher education. Even for those who do complete graduation it doesn't really get any better - nearly half of our graduates are un...
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Levels or Stages of Education in India today

Education in India follows a uniform structure of school education which is known as the 10+2 system. This system is being followed by all Indian States and Union Territories. But not all of them follow a distinct pattern as per the system. 1. Pre Primary Stage –  Pre primary education in India is provided to children between 3–6 years by Kindergarten, Playway or Play Schools. These schools have varying terminology for different levels of classes, beginning from – Pre-Nursery, Nursery, KG, LKG (Lower Kindergarten) and UKG (Upper Kindergarten). Most of the pre-primary education in India is provided by private schools. 2. The Primary Stage  – Primary education in India offered by both private and government schools usually consist of students aged between 5 to 12 years. The duration of study in this stage is 4-5 years. Common subjects include English, Hindi, Mathematics, Environmental Science and General Knowledge. Sometimes also termed as Elementary Education, it is fr...
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The challenges of basic education in India

It is hard to find a village in India – even in the remotest parts of the country – where there is no school. Over the last two decades, the provision of schools by the government, especially primary schools, has become almost universal. These schools have basic infrastructure; however small or rudimentary, there will usually be a few classrooms and an open space for a playground. Private schools have mushroomed, too. In rural areas they operate under trees or in simple sheds, and in urban areas in residential buildings. Schools are everywhere, and almost all children are enrolled in a school of some sort.  This is an impressive achievement in a country as vast and diverse as India. Access to school is now recognised as a non-negotiable part of a child’s right to education. It is enshrined in law and is widely accepted in practice. The Right to Education Act that was passed by the Indian parliament in 2009 lays down norms that each school should aim for, the processes to p...
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Schools must focus on more than skill development

In India today, the emphasis in education is on creating adequate skills to enable the student who has passed out to find employment and earn his livelihood. This is acceptable and skill development is undoubtedly a primary goal of education. Private education is becoming tremendously expensive and while many elite schools have extensive grounds and impressive buildings, they cannot even be trusted to provide protection to children, who in  recent instances , have been molested and/or found murdered. The promoters of many of these ‘international’ schools — often real estate tycoons with access to tracts of land — know that affluent parents who have benefited from the economic boom of the past decade are themselves people with little education, easily persuaded by ostentation that their children are getting the best education. Here are some of the enticements offered by elite schools to make students ‘fit for the competitive world’ — the phrase calculated to make pa...
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The progress of school education in India

India ’s recent economic growth rates have generated much optimism about its general social and economic development. The story of India’s educational achievements is one of mixed success. On the down side, India has 22 per cent of the world’s population, but 46 per cent of the world’s illiterates, and is home to a high proportion of the world’s out-of-school children and youth. On the positive side, it has made encouraging recent progress in raising schooling participation. While the base of India’s education pyramid may be weak, it has emerged as an important player in the worldwide information technology revolution on the back of substantial (absolute) numbers of well-educated computer-science and other graduates.  While India does well compared to Bangladesh and Pakistan, it lags substantially behind all the other BRIC countries and Sri Lanka, and is also behind the average for ‘developing countries’. Indeed, it is striking that its overall adult literacy ...
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Women Education

Kerala is regarded as the most progressive state in the matter of women's education . According to 2001 census the female literacy rate is 87.86 percent in the state as against 54.16 per cent at the national level. The enrolment of girl student in schools stood at 28.96 lakhs in 1992, which constituted to 49 per cent of the total school enrolment. The number of girl students in high school went up to 7.7 lakhs in 1992 from 4.7 lakhs in 1977'' registering nearly a two-fold increase within a period of one and a half decades. Kerala continues to record the highest percent of women enrolment among all the states in India in all stages of higher education, in the general education stream. Rapid progress of girls education at the university level is a remarkable feature of educational development in the state. The enrolment of women in Arts and Science College in the state mounted to 177.4 thousand in 1999-2000 from 77.8 thousand in 1975 - 76. Females constitute higher...
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