RT @mylife5_5@twitter.com
@sanjaynagral@twitter.com I disagree..the main reason for migration to these countries is to escape cutthroat competition students have to face in India.pvt. med college are expensive but their standards are way higher than not just foreign unis but many gov colleges in India too
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mylife5_5/status/1497616349312466946
India doesn't have "cutthroat competition" - it has inadequate training facilities.
We are still short on doctors and whining about reservations and have insanely high cutoff rates for admissions triggering suicides and mental health issues among worthy students!
Exam scores have been turned into a macabre game of worth where a person who gets 87% is considered inferior to someone who gets 97% - in reality someone who can get 87% marks is perfectly capable of learning a specialization that interests him/her. There aren't enough seats.
The whole idea of exam scores as a measure of someone's intelligence or aptitude for higher studies is nonsense. Aptitude will vary by interest and subject and skills needed, not scores on a standard exam. But how to distribute scarce seats equitably?
If people go elsewhere to get their training, GOOD FOR THEM. It doesn't make them inferior to Indian colleges. It makes them pragmatic.
And actually good at thinking outside the box, with an exposure to international practices... hardly inferior.
One way to END the war about reservations would be to have enough college seats.
If there were enough seats for aspiring students, reservations would neither be necessary nor objected to.
This whole gamification of scores as a measure of worth and access to opportunity dehumanizes students into performing monkeys chasing answers that will score rather than knowledge.
Nothing to be proud of.
+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@vidyut before the change to bachelor/master system university in germany was much better for students to learn thinking. now it's more about how well you can remember the right answers. the few courses i had which were classic seminar style were really great (especially the "uninteresting" ones where only few students were caring to go :)
