Om Prakash, Mayabunder, North Andaman
A nation is as strong as its citizens. The citizens are as strong as their education system, especially in this modern era. The thinkers at the helm of education system in Andaman & Nicobar Islands meticulously plan to effectuate in qualitative improvement in the students. The island schools cater to the aspirants by educating them in multifarious streams.
Tell me your school, I will tell your attitude and aptitude. AIPMT and JEE are presently the talk of the town in these islands as the academic session is inching towards the culmination. Island students are pinning their hope to secure admission into the Andaman Medical College that is coming up during 2015. Thus students seriously aspire to take JEE and AIPMT. The mooted question that remains to be answered is whether the education system in these islands does justice to all categories of the aspirants.
Every state takes great pride of their selective premier schools which produce students of great competency who enjoy the competitive pressure. These Islands lack such selective premier schools where eligible students can be put to work, can hone their skills and where eligible aspirants can learn to excel in competition utilising the opportunities. A school is premier among other schools surely because of its infrastructure, teachers and more importantly of its students.
The newly mushroomed private schools with great dearth of experienced faculty members outshine the Andaman Administration schools. The ignorant parents believe in private schools and thus prioritize seeking admission into it. Whereas the fact is the hype created by showcasing the results of the grade-excelled but competency-scarce students who primarily were earlier educated in govt schools and then guided by private tutors.
This is the high time that the think tanks at the helm of affairs with a new school of thought ought to create a premier institution at a suitable place with all facilities and dedicated competent teachers with immunity from transfer policy so that every teacher and student must first aspire to get into this school. The intake of students must be based through some selection examination. Even the selection of head of the institution, teachers and instructors must be prudently done. This dream school will do the justice to the deserving and will be the answer to the question mooted at the very outset of the article.
