India’s higher education system is vast, but its foundations are weak. With only three per cent of GDP allocated to education, universities struggle with resource shortages and overcrowding. Rote learning and exam-centric pedagogy have stifled creativity, reducing education to a race for marks. As a result, student stress and suicide rates are rising. While global universities emphasise AI-driven personalised learning and industry-aligned skills, Indian institutions remain trapped in bureaucracy, churning out unemployable graduates.

भारत की उच्च शिक्षा व्यवस्था विराट तो है, पर इसकी नींव कमजोर है। शिक्षा के लिए सकल घरेलू उत्पाद का मात्र तीन फीसदी हिस्सा आवंटित होने से विश्वविद्यालय संसाधनों की कमी और भीड़भाड़ से जूझ रहे हैं...

तमाम रिपोर्ट बार-बार चीख-चीख कर कह रही है कि आठवीं क्लास के बच्चे तीसरी की किताब भी नहीं पढ़ पाते। सरकारी स्कूलों में शिक्षक तो हैं, पर पढ़ाने की लगन नहीं। निजी स्कूलों में फीस है, लेकिन गुणवत्तापूर्ण शिक्षा का घोर अभाव। पाठ्यक्रम रटंत विद्या को बढ़ावा देते हैं, सोचने-समझने की क्षमता को कुचलते हैं...

Missiles and drones can be built, and Shuklaji can be given a piggyback ride to space. However, until there is radical reform in primary and secondary education, and six per cent of the GDP is allocated to implementing the New Education Policy, Indian students will continue to struggle in science, mathematics, and language communication. This is no way to achieve a developed India by 2047!

Employers in the education sector should not shy away from conducting social media and online screening checks, even amid concerns regarding freedom of speech, according to one of the specialist background screening firms, First Advantage.

The Department of Fashion Design and Garment Technology of the Community College in Aligarh Muslim University organised a two-day hands-on training workshop titled ‘Advanced Design Techniques on Flat Bed Knitting Machine’.

जैसे दवा की दुकान पर प्रशिक्षित फार्मासिस्ट रखना अनिवार्य है, ठीक वैसे ही ठेकेदारों को भी ट्रेंड सिविल इंजीनियर्स रखना अनिवार्य किया जाए ताकि निर्माण कौशल और गुणवत्ता में सुधार हो।

Dust-choked roads, bridges collapsing at breakneck speed, and schools reduced to rubble—this is the reality of our so-called ‘development’! In a country where billions of rupees from the public treasury are poured like water, the common people are left with shoddy work and broken promises. This contractor system has turned the nation’s progress into a looting spree, where quality is sacrificed at the altar of corruption. It’s a poison eating away at India’s development from within.