{"id":238531,"date":"2023-04-18T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=238531"},"modified":"2023-04-19T13:34:42","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T08:04:42","slug":"a-culture-of-cohesion-to-save-young-lives-on-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-culture-of-cohesion-to-save-young-lives-on-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"A culture of cohesion to save young lives on campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cA culture of cohesion to save young lives on campuses\u201d <\/strong>published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d <\/strong>on 18th April 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS2- Issues related to development and management of education<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>– Campus suicides and distress among students<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>– The newspaper reports about young students ending their lives is disturbing.<\/p>\n

What are some facts and statistics about students ending their lives on campuses of higher education institutions?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

During the 2018-23, 61 students passed away.<\/strong> During 2014-21, there were 122 cases in various higher education institutions. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Most students were from the Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Castes and Economically Weaker Sections (EWS). Marginalisation and deprivation are factors, but one also finds a wide spectrum of students.<\/p>\n

What are the reasons for student distress at institutions of higher education?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Campuses have become large and impersonal spaces<\/strong>. Family support<\/strong> is reducing. There are more nuclear families <\/strong>now with working parents. They are unable to provide the kind of parenting and mentoring<\/strong> that joint families provide.<\/p>\n

Individualism<\/strong> is pervasive in society. Early signs of emotional distress go unnoticed, unrecognized, and unaddressed. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Generally, institutions are in denial mode.<\/strong> They expect the situation to be dealt with by the parents. Students in emotional distress are advised to spend time with their families.<\/p>\n

In higher education institutions, there is hardly any free and fair communication<\/strong> between students, their seniors, teachers, and the administration. Classroom interactions<\/strong> are confined to academics. It adds to the stress emotionally distressed students are already under.<\/p>\n

Teachers don’t have the time, inclination and expertise<\/strong> to address any disturbing traits among their students. A highly formalised, standardised and hierarchical structure<\/strong> can never be conducive to promoting a congenial environment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What are factors responsible for campus suicides?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Most campus suicides are attributed to academic pressure, family circumstances, personal reasons, different kinds of stress, financial distress, caste-based discrimination, and different forms of harassment. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Many of the sources of distress lie outside the purview of higher education institutions<\/strong>. They have genesis in the larger economic and societal contexts.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What is the contrast between counselling support for students in the USA and India?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Universities in the United States have dedicated counselling centres<\/strong> with a range of psychological services. They are accredited by the International Accreditation of Counseling Services.<\/p>\n

They are manned by licensed psychologists, psychiatrists, clinical therapists, mental health workers and social workers. The counsellor-to-student ratio<\/strong> is carefully established through careful analysis.<\/p>\n

In contrast, the psychological counselling services<\/strong> in Indian campuses are limited to providing some physical space in a corner of the institution. They have a limited number of professionally trained psychologists and psychotherapists. There are hardly any standards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward to overcome the stress faced by students at campuses?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There is a need for counselling and therapies as curative measures<\/strong> for distressed students. It may be easy to strengthen and streamline.<\/p>\n

It is critical to create an assimilative culture of cohesion and promote respect for academic and socio-economic diversity<\/strong>. Institutions must deter and curb all forms of discrimination.<\/p>\n

There is a need to evolve a code of campus ethics prescribing standards and protocols<\/strong> of what can and cannot be discussed even in informal social settings. Social, economic, and cultural diversity<\/strong> on campuses add value. But, it should be sensitively nurtured and carefully harnessed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cA culture of cohesion to save young lives on campuses\u201d published in \u201cThe Hindu\u201d on 18th April 2023. Syllabus: GS2- Issues related to development and management of education Relevance– Campus suicides and distress among students News– The newspaper reports about young students ending their lives is disturbing.… Continue reading A culture of cohesion to save young lives on campuses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,11454,10498],"class_list":["post-238531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-student-distress","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704891981},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}