Privatization of education may change its picture in Indian Subcontinent

It is widely accepted that India’s education system has and continues to fail the vast majority of its population. Ironically, the country’s success in establishing a globally competitive service sector has, if anything, underscored that failure. Poor quality, however, is not the only problem. The other is access – vast numbers of children simply do not enter the primary education system or leave it too early. Literacy and enrollment are particularly low among women and other marginalized groups. When the situation is so worse at basic level education, what can be expected in regard to business management programmes and other higher education. This failure is most glaring when comparing India with China where illiteracy, at least, has been substantially eradicated.

These problems persist despite several initiatives by the Central government to improve outcomes. Increasingly, therefore, liberal economists, international development agencies, and philanthropies have called for a shift towards greater privatization of primary and higher education. In particular, calls emerge to disconnect the funding of education from its operation, through the provision of education vouchers.

Privatization has worked well in several situations in India. Yet as the belief that it works everywhere gains greater currency, there is a need to evaluate if education is also amenable to privatization.

The concept of collabrative education

Collaborative Learning- A must for successful life - Collaborative Learning as the name suggests is somewhat derived from word collaboration and is a state where two or more people learn or attempt to learn something with mutual effort. In today’s era where competition has increased at large, the interaction with different group of people is utmost important, this is where collaborative learning comes handy as it helps in interacting with different people and exchange of ideas among them, which in turn becomes effective learning.

There are many advantages of collaborative learning which other wise are not taught in regular business management colleges and courses. Also one more aspect which can be looked at is the collaboration of different foreign universities with national universities. This collaboration leads to student exchange program  where the students from national universities are sent to foreign universities which not only help them in better quality of education but also a chance to learn the diversified culture along with the interaction with eminent personnel.

So we have seen that collaborative learning in this modern and competitive environment plays a part and parcel for the development of personality of human individual thus making it fit and suitable to compete, survive and excel in the field he/she specializes in.