The quality of professional education in Tamil Nadu has been witnessing a rapid downfall in Tamil Nadu during the last few years, the reason quite obvious, the incessant growth of Engineering colleges. The number of colleges has catapulted itself to somewhere around 220 mark compared to about 30 colleges about 7 or 8 years ago. The Professors and Lecturers strength is not enough to cater the sudden spurt of so many colleges all over the state (Source: The Hindu Business Line). The result numerous students just passing out from college have taken the post of lecturers in many colleges. This has lead to degradation in quality of the engineers coming out.
When all were pondering how to tackle this situation, Tamil Nadu Government has come up with a decision which further worsens the situation. The announcement of abolition of TNPCEE exam. it certainly spells doom for professional education. For those who ask how this will affect the quality of education is affected, I will ask a simple question.
In a book which has about 300 pages, is it difficult to score centum after studying it for about one and half years?
(These days, students start studying twelfth portions during eleventh standard itself)
The person who has good memory power can easily score a centum, its about mugging the book, no need that he/she must have understood the subject. TNPCEE served as an ideal filter to separate students who have understood the subject, have analytical and reasoning skills from those who haven't. By abolishing the entrance exams, the quality of student who enters an engineering college will be lowered, resulting in poorer engineers coming out.
The Government’s reasoning that students from rural areas are not able to get coaching for entrance compared to the students in urban areas is a lament reason. If we dig a bit deeper into the entrance coaching that is taking place in most areas, Government school teachers are actively taking part in them. If government wants to provide a good solution for the trouble, they can ask the government school teachers to coach the rural students, is it not possible? (I agree that Teachers-parents association is doing this work, but not highly productive, extra measures can be taken). After all teachers do get salary for month of April and May, so why not ask them to do the job. Will they not raise cries if salary is not given for those two months and then why not ask them to work? No this regime will not do it, because it fears losing votes in the next election from the teacher’s community.
One interesting fact is that, only this Jayalalitha regime during its previous tenure introduced this single window council, thereby making the entrance more effective. In fact this abolishment of exams is with a political motive to silence Dr.Ramadoss, PMK leader who was making a fuss about these exams some time ago. It is quite bad to see politics intervening education, really it augurs well for the downfall of quality education in Tamil Nadu.
When all were pondering how to tackle this situation, Tamil Nadu Government has come up with a decision which further worsens the situation. The announcement of abolition of TNPCEE exam. it certainly spells doom for professional education. For those who ask how this will affect the quality of education is affected, I will ask a simple question.
In a book which has about 300 pages, is it difficult to score centum after studying it for about one and half years?
(These days, students start studying twelfth portions during eleventh standard itself)
The person who has good memory power can easily score a centum, its about mugging the book, no need that he/she must have understood the subject. TNPCEE served as an ideal filter to separate students who have understood the subject, have analytical and reasoning skills from those who haven't. By abolishing the entrance exams, the quality of student who enters an engineering college will be lowered, resulting in poorer engineers coming out.
The Government’s reasoning that students from rural areas are not able to get coaching for entrance compared to the students in urban areas is a lament reason. If we dig a bit deeper into the entrance coaching that is taking place in most areas, Government school teachers are actively taking part in them. If government wants to provide a good solution for the trouble, they can ask the government school teachers to coach the rural students, is it not possible? (I agree that Teachers-parents association is doing this work, but not highly productive, extra measures can be taken). After all teachers do get salary for month of April and May, so why not ask them to do the job. Will they not raise cries if salary is not given for those two months and then why not ask them to work? No this regime will not do it, because it fears losing votes in the next election from the teacher’s community.
One interesting fact is that, only this Jayalalitha regime during its previous tenure introduced this single window council, thereby making the entrance more effective. In fact this abolishment of exams is with a political motive to silence Dr.Ramadoss, PMK leader who was making a fuss about these exams some time ago. It is quite bad to see politics intervening education, really it augurs well for the downfall of quality education in Tamil Nadu.
