I wish to discuss about the quick fix academic institutes which have sprung up and mushroomed in entire length and breadth of India. These promise guaranteed admission and employment and even boast of tie ups with foreign academic institutes. There are many such Engineering, Medical and Dental college in Chandigarh area. Many of these charge capitation fee from students for admission. There are no genuine entrance tests for admission and any type of students (low caliber and division) are also welcome for a hefty fee. Needless to say that the students passing out from these institutes have poor educational standards and therefore cannot get any employment with the industry. Such institutes are opened by rich businessmen without having any academic qualifications and thus ruin the lives of students who would have invested a huge amount of money by taking various loans. Thus these students after getting frustrated look for admission into foreign universities (most of which offer only short-term courses) and again spend hefty amount; the purpose being to find employment and settle abroad. I know the case of one of my soldier (Naik … Singh from Bihar) who after disposing off his property got his son admitted in an Engineering College at Jaipur and his son after completion of his studies has not been employed at all and can not even earn Rs 5000 (90 USD ) a month. What a pity! This person is trying hard now to get his son admitted in short courses abroad.
India need to seriously look into the Education Sector including skill developments issues, a theme which is very dear to India’s Prime Minister, but this can only happen if the States ( India being Federal in structure) take these issues seriously and move forward towards the agenda of Development rather than getting bogged down with other peripheral issues, most of which are the creation of vested interests. May God bless India!Guchi.
Many a times I come across hugely anxious mothers who are willing to go all out and do just about anything under the sun to get their little three year olds to open up their mouth and begin talking. I have heard stories like parents taking children for 6 days a week one hour extensive speech therapy classes almost for 6 months yet having little results.
The common concern is that with speech therapy the child is able to articulate sounds but does not at will produce any words, even after giving huge doses of praise and reinforcements.
Here I am reminded of a very interesting incident when a young mother was sitting in my office and tears trickled down her face while she spoke her heart out to me about her child being non verbal out of choice and not so much as a matter of compulsion. While narrating…
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