{"id":31240,"date":"2018-10-27T12:39:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31240"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:09:15","slug":"a-deepening-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-deepening-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"A deepening crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/opinion\/lead\/a-deepening-crisis\/article22765320.ece\"><b>A deepening crisis<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1966, the Kothari Commission had recommended that India should target at spending 6% of its GDP on education. However, even after 5 decades, India\u2019s spending on education remains very low.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why in news?<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When it comes to the education, Union Budget 2018 has offered a marginal increase on different routine expenses and reduction on some. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Budget Speech the Finance Minister has referred to the importance of teacher education which has been appreciated.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Fund Issues:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite favourable social climate, education has failed to become a matter of national concern.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Budget spending on education has been low<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Union Budget 2018 has offered a marginal increase on different routine expenses and reduction on some.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There has been no sign of funds to enable institutional recovery after a prolonged period of damage caused by financial cuts in higher education. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Elementary education has been facing a crunch in supply of funds for improvement in quality<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Issues with Teacher Training:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teacher training constitutes a relatively invisible, low-status sector of the education system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It has seldom received high-level attention.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> A few prestigious colleges that were set up under British rule a century ago have lost their importance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In the discourse of policy too, teacher training lacked emphasis. The current popular term \u2018public policy\u2019 does not cover teacher education at all. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Verma Committee Report highlighted the dismal state of teacher education, especially the corruption that has seeped into the regulatory system put in place in the mid-1990s. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Four-Year Option:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Finance Minister made a special mention of the four-year integrated B.Ed. (Bachelor of Education) programme as a way forward for achieving quality in teacher training.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the major hurdle being that teacher education will have to pay for its own growth.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What the government is willing to invest in is mainly the in-service part of the sector.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Institutions of higher education directly or indirectly affect teachers for all levels.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The teachers affected by conditions in undergraduate colleges degrade the state of education<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, most importantly there has to be more public spending and a recovery plan to bring about changes in higher education for better teacher training.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deepening crisis Context: In 1966, the Kothari Commission had recommended that India should target at spending 6% of its GDP on education. However, even after 5 decades, India\u2019s spending on education remains very low. Why in news? 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