Saturday 10 October 2015

“Why is there not a Single Indian University within the World's Top 100 Index List?” ―Professor M.S.Rao











"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not." ― Thomas Huxley

When you look at the ranking of Indian universities globally, we stand nowhere near to the top 100 universities. There are a number of reasons for not listing Indian universities at the top level. Let us address some of the reasons for this present scenario.  We don’t have quality infrastructure. There are no adequate research facilities. In India, teaching means only classroom teaching as it doesn’t include research and consultancy which are indeed the pillars of teaching.  The best talent doesn’t join teaching profession due to lack of career opportunities, ambience and facilities. The present Indian education system doesn’t believe in creativity and innovation. It believes more in 3 Rs – read, write and reproduce which encourages memory. Students cram content and reproduce during exams without understanding the essence.

The private educational institutions collect a huge fee from students like leeches and believe more brand building than providing quality education to students. The regulating bodies including All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) are not equipped with adequate powers to check irregularities and corruption in private colleges especially medical and engineering institutions. Some of the private medical and engineering colleges don’t provide the salary to their employees when the latter leave the educational institutions.  Worse, the teachers are not paid salary for a period of three months when they leave these private educational institutions. The managements of these private medical and engineering colleges file fictitious cases and fire them.  Here are some steps to check irregularities and corruption to ensure conducive academic ambience in private educational institutions in India:
  • Close down unethical private educational institutions that don’t comply with the guidelines and violate the rules and regulations.
  • Conduct sudden inspections to find out whether faculty is working physically in the colleges.  
  • Update and upgrade teaching pedagogy regularly.  
  • Make the selection process of faculty stringent.
  • Offer pay and perks to the faculty as per the industry standards.  
  • Encourage students who are seriously interested in acquiring education.
  • Strengthen of the hands of AICTE and other regulating bodies. Ensure that they are well protected. Also keep them free from corruption.
  • Ensure funding by government to the professionally run educational institutions.

It is time to professionalize Indian education system to impart quality education to students and add sanctity to educators. Then, we can think of topping globally.

"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants." ― John Gardner

Reference
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/faculty-names-fraud-across-engineering-colleges-in-india/article7190827.ece



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Thursday 8 October 2015

“Dear Owners of Private Medical and Engineering Colleges in Telangana State! Don’t Convert Education into Prostitution” ―Professor M.S.Rao










“If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.” ―A.P.J. Abdul Kalam


It is unfortunate to blog about the irregularities and corruption in the private medical, MBA and engineering educational institutions in the state of Telangana. Although the TRS government in Telangana State conducted Task Forces to check irregularities and corruption in these private educational institutions,  there are lots of irregularities still going on.

The managements of these private colleges treat the principals of their educational institutions as puppets without giving them due respect and powers. When the principals want to follow the rules to protect the faculty and employees, they are fired by the owners of private colleges. There are many cases where the principals and professors who follow the rules are fired from these colleges on silly charges.  At times, the private managements file wrong charges against these principals and professors to get rid of them without paying salaries. Worse, these private managements fill the senior positions and principals before the JNTU, OU and AICTE inspections to comply with the guidelines such as availability of PhD holders and the faculty members as per the faculty and student ratio. Once inspections are completed, the senior faculty members are fired without giving valid reasons. These managements are notorious for not giving salaries to their employees, service certificates and last salary drawn certificates when the latter leave their services. They also use their security forces against their faculty members.

The owners of these private colleges show to regulating bodies that they are paying salaries as per the AICTE guidelines and transfer the salary to employees through bank and they take the signatures of the employees for the differential payments. These transactions are clearly evident through bank transactions. Any Income Tax department can make a note of these irregularities. The bank employees associated with these colleges are also aware of these manipulations by these private colleges. Nowadays these notorious private colleges started taking signed cheques from their employees to avoid getting caught by the regulating bodies and income tax department. These private managements deduct the income tax amount from their employees as per the salary paid as per the AICTE (which is always higher than the salary actually paid to the employees). In this way, the employees pay more tax to Income Tax department than what they are supposed to pay due to the inflated salaries by the private managements to comply with regulating bodies.  In this way also, the private managements are benefitted.  

The students suffer the most under these notorious private managements as the latter charge exorbitant fee by dubious means. These private managements charge money from students by way of conducting extra classes or seminars or the projects.

The owners of these private colleges have close connections with top politicians from all political parties and pay money during the elections. If required, they use goons to crush the faculty members and employees who voice against corruption and irregularities in their colleges. Some of the colleges are run by local politicians indirectly. Hence, the employees and students find it tough to check this menace. The intellectuals in the affiliated universities and regulating bodies are aware of these irregularities and corruption but they are helpless. The owners of these private management invite top officials from these affiliated universities and regulating bodies to their college ‘annual day’ functions and for other ceremonies to keep them in good humor. These top officials are also paid with huge honorarium by way of ‘guest lectures’. 

The owners of these private colleges have converted education into prostitution. Therefore, there must be coordinated efforts from all stakeholders including government, press, nonprofits, parents, intellectuals, and students to check corruption and irregularities in private engineering colleges in the state of Telangana and elsewhere in India. If essential, Central Bureau of Instigation (CBI) must enter to check corruption in these private colleges.

The objective of any education is to creative conducive environment for educators to share their knowledge with students to make them as enlightened and healthy citizens. Unfortunately, it is missing now. It is time for all of us to set the house in order to build a better society.

Note: I have blogged this post to bring the change in the Indian education system to create healthy education to students as I am passionate about my students and I love my country.


"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."    ― Franklin Roosevelt

Reference
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/faculty-names-fraud-across-engineering-colleges-in-india/article7190827.ece



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Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013
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Twitter: @professormsrao  
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Tuesday 6 October 2015

“Education is for Sale, not Educators” ―Professor M.S.Rao












“It requires a lot of courage to become an educator as it is not for everybody. If a parent is unworthy, children are spoiled; if a doctor neglects his duty, the patient dies; if an engineer performs poorly, the infrastructure collapses; and if an educator makes a mistake, an entire generation is ruined.” – Professor M.S. Rao


It is reported that the name of the same faculty as a teaching resource is available in more than one college. It shows the irregularities in colleges in the state of Telangana and other states in India. Although it is known to many, nobody takes it seriously. In Andhra Pradesh and Telangana[1], nearly 8,000 names were repeated across more than one college, Mr. Dubbudu and his team found, which meant that a quarter of the total engineering faculty in the States consisted of duplicate names. In all, nearly 90 per cent of the over 1,500 accredited engineering colleges in the States had at least one ‘duplicate’ teacher on their faculty.

Some of the private engineering colleges in Telangana State are run by liquor barons and real estate brokers who converted these private colleges into money spinners. They don’t follow professional standards and they lack ethics and etiquette thus bringing down the standards of education and educators.  Some of them don’t follow rules and regulations as they have close nexus with politicians and political parties. They break rules and regulations and collect huge fee from students for being absent to the institutions and on various other projects. They don’t pay the salaries to their employees when the latter leave their educational institutions. They also cow down the leaving employees if the latter intend to take legal action against these erring educational institutions. Majority of educators don’t fight and they leave without taking the salary of the last month. There are a very few faculty who are ready to fight legally. But they are harassed by the managements by leveling wrong cases against them.

The managements of the private engineering colleges are noted for pitting one faculty member against another faculty member to break their unity and to create ill-will among them. It is like a ‘divide and rule’ which is not healthy in the long term for the Indian education. Most faculty members don’t intervene when one of their colleagues is harmed or denied with rights and salary as they think it is the problem of an individual. In fact, they must know that it is everybody’s problem in the long-run. When management harms the interests of a faculty member, they can harm other faculty members also when the time comes. Hence, faculty members must unite to fight for their rights.

Paying bribes and getting ranked has become the order of the day for these notorious educational institutions. They are busy building their brands rather than building infrastructure and imparting quality education to their students.

Most of the educational institutions don’t pay salaries as per the latest Pay commission. They show on records that they pay the salaries as per the AICTE norms but take the differential amount from the faculty every month.  Therefore, the Income Tax department must check such transactions and close down the erring educational institutions immediately. If required, CBI inquiry must be ordered on the erring educational institutions for cheating students and faculty and on corruption. They cheat students by taking money by way of condonation fee and cheat faculty by not paying last month salary and also summer vacation salary. There are some private educational institutions who hire senior faculty members to show during inspections of AICTE, JNTU and their respective universities and terminate their services once inspections are over by citing improper feedback or on disciplinary grounds.

Most of the regulators are aware of these irregularities. To please those regulators, the managements of the educational institutions invite such regulators to functions and on ‘graduation day’ celebrations and offer them decent money or gifts. As a reciprocal response, such regulators turn blind eye to the complaints filed by the faculty members.

The TRS government took some corrective steps to check the current irregularities. It conducted sudden inspections to check irregularities. Some of the managements of these private colleges are noted for manipulation. They shift faculty from one college to another college within their group of educational institutions to meet the JNTU and AICTE requirements.

To summarize, it is essential to clean the education system and the practices in private engineering colleges in Telangana and other states. Remember, the day corruption enters into educational institutions and armed forces, the country will collapse. Hence, all stakeholders including students, faculty, regulators, media and nonprofits must unite to check irregularities in erring private educational institutions to clean the system and to add sanctity to education. Remember, education is for sale, not educators.

Reference
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/faculty-names-fraud-across-engineering-colleges-in-india/article7190827.ece



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Professor M.S.Rao, India
Founder of MSR Leadership Consultants India
Listed in Marquis Who's Who in the World in 2013
Vision 2030 Webinar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBCO-gWmTRk
Twitter: @professormsrao  
Blog: http://professormsrao.blogspot.com
Blog: http://professormsraoguru.blogspot.com
Global Top Gurus 30: http://www.globalgurus.org/leadership/upcoming.php
21 Success Sutras for Leaders: Top 10 Leadership Books of the Year (San Diego University) Amazon URL: http://www.amazon.com/21-Success-Sutras-Leaders-ebook/dp/B00AK98ELI




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