Lucknow has potential to be an schooling hub

LUCKNOW: The tutorial panorama of Lucknow has modified drastically within the final 4 many years however whether or not that is resulting in any good is debatable. About 4 many years again once I first got here and joined my posting at Lucknow, the colleges had been principally of three classes – authorities, government-aided and some missionary faculties. About 90% of the colleges had been within the govt/aided sector and solely 10% within the personal unaided sector. The variety of faculties had been few, however all are high quality pushed. The seats had been restricted, and admissions had been far and few significantly in missionary faculties.
Since then, Nationwide Schooling Coverage got here into being twice – in 1986 and in 2020-along with new Nationwide Curriculum Framework in 2000, 2005 and now in 2023. All these have modified the tutorial perspective. With the opening of extra personal faculties, the trajectory has shifted from Hindi medium faculties to extra of an English medium and a couple of+/3+ youngsters have began attending English medium pre-primary faculties. It proved to be of some benefit. Majority kids had began speaking in English. Good schooling was out there to the plenty which in flip enhanced the employability expertise of our college students in a globalised world order.

With the provision of faculties in all nooks and corners, dad and mom acquired a selection for his or her youngsters as per their assets. Right this moment, the variety of faculties has elevated to 10-fold. About 85% of them are within the personal sector.
Nonetheless, because the variety of faculties made a quantum leap, the standard side nosedived.
The holistic method is by some means lacking, and the colleges are simply turning into machines to churn out college students with certificates and diplomas with none mandatory expertise. The consumerist tendencies had been prevailing in most faculties with just about no give attention to high quality and worth.
The colleges have miserably didn’t be the man-making machines. The aim of schooling goes for a toss and there appears to be no honest effort to arm college students with applicable expertise in order that they will face the brand new world order efficiently and competently. In greater schooling, many college students are transferring out which is a trigger for concern and should be stopped. Lucknow is strategically positioned to turn out to be an schooling hub alongside Kanpur and Prayagraj and we have to make this triangular axis a actuality. With NEP-2020, the longer term appears to be good. Increasingly alternatives are coming. Let the colleges not turn out to be insensitive to societal expectations. Let the colleges not be rudderless and stay targeted on constitutional values and cultural ethos.
So, educationally we have to take Lucknow to the following degree. We have now the required competence and can energy. Solely factor all stakeholders want is tough work in unison to take Lucknow to nice heights in one other 5 to 6 years.