Poor Quality of Education, the root of all Social illnesses

Educational institutions across the globe require a transformation to boost creativity and innovation in the young minds in general and in the developing worlds particularly. The situation in Pakistan is pathetic to a greater extent. The educational system has failed to cope with the changing needs and dynamics of the teaching-learning requirements of the nation and humanity. At school and colleges, the system never allowed encouraging motivation, creativity, and innovation due to administrative dysfunctional bureaucratic settings. Such dysfunctionality is supplemented by political influences which demand a non-meritorious say in the system.

                                                   

  When young and junior non-professional administrators once start taking care of seniors and professionals infuses a frustration and demoralizes the entire process of affiliation and ownership. Similarly, not only non-meritorious appointments but also ill versioned promotions also derail the dream of quality leaving behind only no professional, Hippocratic and vested interest-oriented minds in the schools and colleges.

The situation across higher education institutions in Pakistan is also worse. More than 5000 PhDs professors are working in these organizations but not even five innovations or creative work are recorded every year. Poor quality of teaching-learning only destroys the young potential minds through making them addicts of Google, Wikipedia and similar stuff copy paste for their assignments and exams. There is no concept of skill assessment and promotion except transforming potential minds rote and CGPA crazy. Institutions only produce certified unskilled labor and not qualified experts.

Higher Education Commission (HEC) must take these quality issues seriously through system changes. It is really damaging that almost all universities do not follow strict meritorious rules. Even appointment and promotion rules are framed to facilitate their blue-eyed people. Similarly, if there are any scratched rules somewhere they are interpreted with nepotism, religious perspective or lingo-racial approach. HEC should make all appointment and promotion rules objectively defined and not subjective. Please save nation and humanity before extreme spoilage and harm. The new generation requires creativity and innovation.