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Education

Dr. R.SunderarajAssistant Professor of CommerceANJAC, Sivakasi

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In this session we shall discuss about

Skills acquiring approach- need of the hour

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Indian System - GurukulamIndian System - Gurukulam

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Thomas Babington Macaulay4

NASSCOM says

• Colleges produce only 25% of Employable graduates (10% in Tamil Nadu), 96% in western countries

• Unskilled people increase production cost by 20 – 50 %

• Unskilled students takes jobs by chance not by desire.

• 60% recruits are fresher5

The key element here is that the education system in the West fosters "out of the box thinking".

For example, it strongly encourages entrepreneurship.

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What we lack…..? • Self learning• South Asians are weakness centered• Deviance is discouraged. • Risk taking is mocked. • Students here now routinely score 90 per

cent marks• Memorising is no learning

We may have the most number of engineering graduates in the world, but that certainly has not translated into much technological innovation here. Rather, we are busy running the call centres of the rest of the

world – that is where our engineering skills end.

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Teaching PedagogyTeaching Pedagogy

We think too much about effective methods of teaching

and not enough about effective methods of learning.

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I hear and I forget. I see and I believe. I do and I understand.

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They are not students of our generation, where they sit down and listen. Things have changed

now; they want to explore.12

Use of Technology-How does this help?

• Allows students more control of their own learning

• Allows teachers to guide more, teach less• Allows student to build up knowledge, and

become part of the teaching process• Can provide some really engaging learning

experiences

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"brain drainbrain drain"

In the past decade alone, there has been a 256 per cent increase in the number of students studying abroad. The number now stands at 200,000 annually, cost

India $17 billion annually in lost revenue.14

Reward creativity, original thinking,

research and innovation

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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"

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“The illiterate of 21st century will not be

those who cannot read and write but those who cannot learn”

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