I would like to contribute certain points
Reservation in education should only be for physically challenged citizens and for those people who are below poverty line.
Employment of teachers and lecturers should focus onto some of the aspects like communication skill and knowledge. Both are very much important for the education as both aspects are complimenting each other.
Education should be given more visual effects rather than reading huge books.
The structure of education and exam pattern in the universities / boards should be universal for basic degrees or vocational degrees. (This now differs from east to west to north and to south).
The fees for a particular degree should be made equal. Special sanctions for the people who deserve to be educated for a particular degree but drop out for the reason being unaffordable.
Please do not take the following examples personally.
In science and technology, at the degree level, most of the Indian Universities lacks a correlation between theory and practical. (E.g. We study synthesis of cholesterol in 50 steps and cram up for the exam but we do not do it practically. Practically we do synthesis only maximum up to 4-5 steps , hardly doing any characterization to prove the synthesis).
At school level we start reading “Misr (Egypt) ki sabhyata”, history teachers never show to the students where exactly Egypt exists on the world map and little children develops their whims and fancies about a particular subject and cram it up with out understanding.
A comparison:
Ph.D scholar quite often becomes a slave for his/her supervisor for years together. In Indian scenario Ph.D degree is in the hands of supervisor rather than any Education policy (Japan gives a date of submission of thesis as soon as the student gets enrolled for Ph.D).
Scholar in India struggle for the results of his research at stake of technicians. (In South Africa, Master student individually handles machines worth of millions of dollars at the university / institute and is able to finish his research work in a week’s time).
I am sorry to say that the quality of research done by IIT or IISc is no exceptional. Check IIT / IISc (www.scopus.com). Go for the IMPACT FACTOR of the journal (google serach) in which these people publish.
Endless to compare and feel ashamed....
Well said Chhavi Di ...