JAMMU: Union Minister in Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh today said quantity has taken the toll of quality in education and much of the aberration in the contemporary education scenario is the result of inability to appreciate that, with the passage of years, the focus has shifted from providing accessible education to standard education.
”This is evident from the fact that even as we compliment ourselves for opening new universities or more and more university campuses, the local students still prefer to move out and seek admission in other universities while seats in many of the departments in the universities back home remain unfilled,” Dr Singh said while addressing an interactive session with the faculty of University of Jammu here.
Emphasising that the education pattern at any given time is determined by the socio-economic milieu of the given time, Dr Singh said,”at the time of independence in 1947, the thrust was on opening more and more education institutions and universities in order to bring higher education within the reach of the country’s population, because at that time the colleges or universities were located far and wide.”
”At a time when India is on the verge of emerging as world power and more than 70 per cent of its population is going to be below the age of 35 years,” Dr Singh said adding, ”it is our responsibility towards the youth of this country to work for an education mechanism which is capable of producing job creators instead of job seekers who will, in turn, be the torch-bearers of ‘Startup India, Standup India’ mission.” (AGENCIES)
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