Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Education in India – a Right or a Privilege?

Child education in India is complusory. Yet still about 35% of the population is illiterate. Even though three Indian higher education institutes were listed in Times Higher Education world’s top 200, and several other institutes and universities are highly recognized in the whole world, only 7% graduate from high school which is ironically good, because there is no room for the rest of high school graduates in the colleges anyway. Nevertheless, India's higher education system is the third largest in the world, after China and the United States.

Even though government educational bodies like UGC and AICTE are trying their best to keep track of the quality of education offered in the thousands of higher education institutes in India, it is still a struggle, because the quality varies a lot. There are too many colleges and institutes out there without any recognition or affiliations just taking  money from students, but offering nothing in return.

But not everything about education in India is negative. India has made a huge progress when it comes to increasing attendance rate on primary education level and literacy rates. This is considered to be one of the main reasons of India’s raising economy and a change is certainly coming. Government is trying hard on every level to educate its people and the numbers are improving even though it is hard to implement all the new rules and regulations on a country with more than a billion inhabitants. 

Even though most of Indian higher education institutes are government controlled, more and more private institutes are emerging. One can find endless opportunities for studying, but it might be difficult to choose a suitable college or a speciality. Most importantly, people in India take education as an investment in the future – a guarantee of getting a good job. Therefore, it is really important to get into a good college.

While the most popular field of studies is engineering, many higher education aspirants are also pursuing degrees in management. Indian Institute of Management has obtained such a level of excellence that people from all over the world come here to study and there is a huge competition for admission in IIMs. But IIM is not the only good management school in India.

OIBT – Om Institute of Business & Technology is an innovative management institute in Gujarat offering nationally and internationally recognized degrees on undergraduate and postgraduate levels with the opportunities of studying in India only or partially abroad and getting a dual degree in the same time as a single degree is awarded commonly. It has campuses all over Gujarat and is already spreading to other states as well. Being still a quite new institute it comes with a strong background, being a part of Om International Group which has provided student visas for ambitious young people wishing to study abroad for almost a decade. Now being affiliated with excellent educational institutes all over the world, OIBT is proud to be able to be a part of the actual educating process for the first time and hopes to take the education in India to the next level so that education being a right in India would not be just true on paper.

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