‘Treat education as a business, not a service’: Prof Rohit Dhankar
Prof Rohit Dhankar says education should be treated as a commodity not a service.
While delivering a lecture at the seventh Kuruvila Jacob memorial,Prof Rohit Dhankar of Azim Premji University,Bengaluru said that instead of treating education as a service,it should be treated as a commodity,which will make it more successful.
In his lecture, Dimensions of Excellence in Education, he said that customer satisfaction can be achieved by those policies which treat education as a business commodity and not a service and thusmaintain the quality of educationas well.
Focussing on the national education policy of the ministry of human resource development, he said that the current education system is not suitable as the quality is judgedon the basis of the marks obtained by the studentand not by what he has learned. He said that a major shortcoming of the current education policies are that the quality of education is depending on marks instead ofemployability skills, cultural heritage, value lessons and knowledge.
While answering to the questions asked from the audience, he said that it is fine to have different boards teaching the same syllabus as every child has a different pace of learning.
He was giving this lecture as a part ofKuruvila Jacob Initiativewhich first started in the year 2004, on the birth centenary of the first Indian principal ofMadras Christian College.