“ In terms of quality, the Universities of our country, doesn’t come within the first 125…The curse of the education sector is that first rate students are being taught by third rate teachers”.
- Dr. Rajan Gurukkal, Hon. Vice Chancellor of MG University Kottayam, Kerala State ( addressing the meeting of a teacher’s organization- Reported in the Malayalam daily Kerala Kaumudi dated 20 June 2010)
Most of us must have had to endure such intellectually enervating experiences in life! I will list down two… During my training for the Bachelors degree in Education, in the mid 1990’s in a college which draws the cream of talent from the State, I was taught Educational Technology, by a teacher who never used a single teaching aid. Shamefully enough, a couple of years later, that teacher retired as a Professor on UGC scale! No wonder that college received an abysmally low rating from the college accreditation agency of India, NAAC. But do things change …? The system as the Vice Chancellor said… is indeed ‘cursed’… Quite recently in my campaign to ensure quality in institutions of higher learning, I had to clash swords with an ‘enlightened’ Post Doctoral Fellow, from the same college, who claimed that at the Post Graduate level any one (even a teacher with a background in Educational Psychology) can teach Language Education!
How will ‘first rate’ students treat such ‘third rate’ teachers?. The college in question, is now celebrating its centenary, but despite a whopping two thousand letters being mailed to the alumni of the last ten years, and the hundred odd telephonic messages, just ‘eight’ alumni responded to the call, and attended its Centenary Celebrations. What else could one expect from students who were taken for a ride in the name of teacher training?... Well any comments dear reader?
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