District Collector of Erode in Tamil Nadu has put his children for study in Government School only. Teachers in government schools are themselves brilliant holding PG and many double PG degrees. But we do not want to risk our children moving with those from low income groups and pick up undesirable habits. But then children from affluent families can also become risk factor. If we can make children in government schools under our watchful eyes and spend the extra money we shell out to the private schools (fees and donation), for good extra curricular activities and education tourism, we may get the best of both.
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Overseas Education Fairs
Time to check credentials of advisors on Overseas Education. With no monitoring mechanism , students can be taken for a ride by fraudsters.
by Lily Thomas in The Hindu, Feb 7, 2012
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/article2866664.ece
With stiff competition for seats in good colleges, it is uphill task for the youth of today. Students who are not that studious but with “foreign” craze and or overbearing parents , fall prey to many dubious advisors and consultants who show them picture post cards of campuses with green lawns and great architecture. These schools and colleges are just that and nothing beyond. The parents can keep up with Joneses back home but the wards find themselves in an unenviable situation. They have only themselves to blame. We can have a “sea” change only by eliminating this unnecessary and undesirable craze “sea faring”. Until then the fraudsters will have a great time.
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Our maid's son is in the govt school. Failed in 10th std. Its the board exam. He failed in 8th std from a non english medium school. The maid knows the way around. She went directly to the public education dept and got the Director call the school. He reminded the principal abt the no child left behind policy and asked to pass the boy. The school not only passed the boy, but aelso issued transfer certificate asking the boy to go soemwhere else. Our maid got him to a govt school for 9th std. After coming to 10th, he failed the board exam. Basically his knowledge is not more than 5th or 6th std. But for our maid, the son is 10th failed and is happy that he came to 10th at least. She has no clue abt the no child left behind policy. So one can understand the quality of students if they are pushed like this without passing exams.
KM
Location: God's own country
Posted on: 07-02-12 12:51:54
Guys !
We are missing the point with respect to what was raised by the OP.
The OP had mentioned that we need 2-4 lakhs set aside for Primary school and in my opinion this is BS.
Education is very cheap in India and there are a lot of schools. Teachers may be less qualified and the portions may be more but that is not what the thread is about.
Just for your information, My Project Director ditched his son's govt. seat for Civil,instead he decided to send his son to Chem. Engineering at Amrita university,Coimbatore,TN. His contention is that fees is just 1 lakh a year (private seat) and that his on can eat home food and stay at home.
Just again for your information , just TCS gave some 48700 campus appointment letters. TCS is just one IT company among many others. Google how many appointment orders Wipro,Infy etc. gave
Peace
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I am a Gents and not a Ladies.
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
Just again for your information , just TCS gave some 48700 campus appointment letters. TCS is just one IT company among many others. Google how many appointment orders Wipro,Infy etc. gave
Peace
TCS current employment WORLDWIDE is 226000 + and they added another 20% of world staff in India in the campus recruitment alone? WOW. I pray your numbers come true.
Hiren
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Originally posted by tamilkuravan
Guys !
Education is very cheap in India and there are a lot of schools.
You're the first person I have come across to claim that. All my friends, relatives, and acquintances in Delhi say the otherwise. May be they need to dig it further and find the cheaper options.
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Just for your information, My Project Director ditched his son's govt. seat for Civil,instead he decided to send his son to Chem. Engineering at Amrita university,Coimbatore,TN. His contention is that fees is just 1 lakh a year (private seat) and that his on can eat home food and stay at home.
Makes complete sense.
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Just again for your information , just TCS gave some 48700 campus appointment letters. TCS is just one IT company among many others. Google how many appointment orders Wipro,Infy etc. gave
Peace
Wow! Good to see that IT and Finance rule the Indian job market as well. Canada is not alone in this aspect, and it's a global phenomena.
What TK says is true about college education at least. My elder son studying medicine is paying around 7,000/- per year, while the younger one pays less than 15,000/- per semester for his engineering degree both studying in government colleges. For their education, they did not do a "Canada" unlike myself. But entry into government colleges on merit is tough for the so called forward class.
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