Hindu scriptures declare that the following are the Greatest Sins:
-Selling Water,Medicines,food and Education.
Sad that we have come to a stage that all these are sacrificed at the altar of Money.
Story:
(CNN) — Authorities arrested dozens of angry students at the University of California, Davis, campus late Thursday after they refused to vacate the school’s administration building in protest of a 32-percent tuition hike.
The 52 students were taken into custody by the Davis Police Department and deputies from the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department, according to Claudia Morain, a UC Davis spokeswoman.
The arrests at the Mrak Administration building came about four hours after the normal 5 p.m. PT (8 p.m. ET) closing time. At one point, as many as 150 students were at the building protesting the tuition increase, Morain said.
CNN affiliate KCRA captured footage of students outside the building shouting, “Who’s university? Our university!”
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/11/20/california.tuition.protests/index.html
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Students arrested after 32% tuition hike sparks protests-CNN.
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Ed Balls’s insane education policies make school gate cheats of us all
True.Choice of schools is not in Government’s domain., nor can they dictate people or penalize them for admitting their wards where they want them to study.
Real problem lies in Education system itself,not only in UK, but the world over.Children are made to read(not study)well beyond their capacity, with career alone as the objective with no thought of life skills and character.Parents are as much to blame as the system.Many send children to prestigious schools,for the simple reason to boast that they have sent their children to the best school.
A bright student will be bright irrespective of where he/she studies,provided they have a studious atmosphere at home as well and understanding parents- if parents guide them and not censor them.
Again it is important to note that information is not knowledge;sadly to day we have more information.
Dedicated teachers,involved parents will do the trick.if government enters in education, education is gone.
In India,top ranking students come from so called ‘poor schools’,run by Government'(despite the government’s interference) and even the last President of India,Mr.Abdul Kalam, studied in a very small school in an impoverished city.Parents must know schools,when run by private management, their aim is to make money and not to educate .Do not be fooled by advertisements and facilities provided by them, nor by the percentage of pass or ranks obtained by their students(if your admission criteria is admitting only those who score above 80% or or above ,there is nothing to boast about your hundred percet reults).
In short send the child where the teachers are dedicated and of good character and do not expect too much from the child.The child will become brilliant.
Story:
I once had the misfortune to be seated next to the Schools Secretary Ed Balls at a wedding. When he discovered that I wrote for The Daily Telegraph he took charmlessness to new heights, by turning his back on me for the duration of the meal.Back then, I was still childless, and he was still chief economics adviser to the Treasury, so apart from concluding that he was a singularly rude, rather truculent man, I had no reason to harbour him any ill will. These days, I fear the incident might end in carnage over the monkfish – assuming I could fight my way through the mob of similarly exercised parents, berating him for a raft of insane education policies that are set to criminalise them.
Did I say “parents”? I actually meant “thieves, brigands and liars”. For this, effectively, is what we have been branded as we scramble to educate our children in a state sector where two in five pupils leave primary school unable to read and write properly.
Middle-class families are accused of theft, because they are taking up places at good schools. How dare we! Anyone would think we paid taxes specifically to fund state education and had as much right to school places for our children as anyone else. Hang on a minute, we do – so how, exactly, can it be theft?
Yet this is the finding of the chief schools adjudicator, Ian Craig, who has declared that tougher sanctions are needed to deter wicked mothers and fathers who “played the system” to get their offspring a place at a school where they might have a fighting chance of emerging literate enough to campaign for their parents to be released from Wormwood Scrubs.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6496152/Ed-Ballss-insane-education-policies-make-school-gate-cheats-of-us-all.html?state=error#postacomment -
Indians feel attacks not due to race, but financial conditions
True.With such financial difficulties why go to a foreign Country,especially Australia?Indian courses are much more respected around the world than that of Australia.
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Talking to many families I found all most everyone felt that Indians were to be blamed for inviting problems. They refuse to integrate in Australian society that sorts of annoy the localites,” he said.While Australia still tops as a safest destination by many Indian students, for many of them things are not as rosy as painted by their agents back home and interestingly, there has been a pattern noticed in such incidents.
Most of the students in vocational courses hail from rural parts of India. With little or no financial support they pick odd jobs like in security, cleaner, at petrol stations or drive a cab late at night.
To add to the problem, they rent out in cheap and crime prone areas and use public transport at odd hours which make them highly prone to such attacks.
“We have many Indian students who work odd hours and do not sleep properly for days as they work odd hours,” said Elizabeth Drozd, Victorian multiculturalism commissioner and a university teacher.
“They attend their classes in the morning and work late nights to meet out their living,” Drozd said, adding many of these students feel so tired and they sleep anywhere.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/indians-abroad/Indians-feel-attacks-not-due-to-race-but-financial-conditions/articleshow/5168310.cms -
Can a teacher be trained in six months?
No.
Teaching can not be taught in even in one year, let alone in six months.
Teaching, unlike other Professions, calls for cent percent commitment,no expectation of high monetary rewards,personal involvement and interest in each student,enormous patience,studiouness,art of conveying thoughts at different levels and unimpeachable character. -
Education-Courts Vs Academia.
The Rise and Fall of Academic Abstention
As recently as 1979, legal academics Virginia Nordin and Harry Edwards were able to say that “historically American courts have adhered fairly consistently to the doctrine of academic abstention in order to avoid excessive judicial oversight of academic institutions” (Higher Education and the Law). Academic abstention is the doctrine (never formally promulgated) that courts should defer to colleges and universities when it comes to matters like promotions, curricula, admission policies, grading, tenure, etc. The reasoning is that courts lack the competence to monitor academic behavior; they should get out of the way and let the professionals do the job. “Courts are particularly ill-equipped,” Chief Justice Rehnquist declared in 1978, “to evaluate academic performance.” (Board of Curators of the University of Missouri v. Horowitz)http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-rise-and-fall-of-academic-abstinence/?apage=4#comments
Comment:
Very delicate issue.Not all educational institutions are paragons of virtue and excellence.Corruption and nepotism is well known at least in India right from pre-school to PhD.
Govt and courts are no better.In India. politics in the guise of reservation for certain group of people has given academic excellence a go by.
Possible solution is committed educationists and academicians must form a panel and monitor educational institutions with out interference from Govt.
Also going to court on the ground of freedom is very unhealthy especially in the field of education for the bond between the teacher and the taught is unique.In Indian tradition, Teacher is venerated more than a father to the student and he takes charge of the students at a very age.That is reason how the great culture of India has been built brick by brick
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