Tag: Education

Education involves Knowledge transfer and as such Teachers and infrastructure need to be accorded priority by allocating more funds.
I have been trying to find % of expenses spent by Varsities on this head on total budget;it seems to be a closely guarded secret.Will any body throw light on this? Any Varsity/school will do.
As for as India is concerned ,as an Educational Consutant to Private institutions,I have found that the salary content of Teachers is hardly 2 % of total Budget,while in business enterprises overhead expenses are at 5%.
Major chunk of budget goes to frills in institutions on so called promotions of the instituions and and non productive, non revenue yielding expenses,at the cost of Academics’ salary and infra structure.
When education enters private Sector,profit is the motive and ways to increase income are of primary importance and money is spent on raising the profit..
Education by State may be short of frills but qualitty of Teaching is excellent(India) ,though infra structure needs upgradation.Media may not agree on this;they rate private institutions, as they do for a product,based on infra structure and image of the Institions.How do you rate quality of Education? Only by students who come out,which you can not do by surveys at the time of rating.
Private institutions may well reduce cost on frills and concentrate on Academic salaries and infra structure and stop whining on increased cost.
So called Advisers,what do they do?
Train Teachers or do they teach?
What is their salary ?
Unwanted frills needed to be wiped out.
Teaching needs good teachers, followed by care, commitment and reasonable infra structure.
Nothing more.
One needs to examine the concept of University funding andi f this trend continues, Varsities must be subjected to Central audit to determine where the money from students and Govt.is going.

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Universities in England will need to be allowed to charge higher fees if they are to maintain standards, says a government science adviser.

John Holman, director of the National Science Learning Centre, said: “It is difficult to see how excellence is sustainable without it”.

Professor Holman was speaking at the launch of a report on improving science teaching in schools.

The government is soon to begin a review of tuition fees in England.

“It’s very difficult to see how a future of excellence throughout the university system can be maintained unless at some point there’s a more economic approach to university fees,” said Prof Holman.

“I think at some point we need to question whether the cap on fees is lifted.” -BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/8315148.stm