10 Critical Issues faced by Education
(Syed Manazir-ul-Haq, Karachi)
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10 Critical Issues faced by Education
Issues and Solutions go together. Further, from the day one issues are emerging and in parallel their solutions also evolving. Education is the knowledge of the Creator and His teachings about all creatures of the Universe. It tells about the world and the day-after world also teaches human beings, how their lives should pass so that their lost climax could be achieved. The word of education has been taken from Latin words Educare and Educere - Educare means to bring up. The following are the ten critical issues faced by Education.
1. Lack of Real Teaching: Education does not mean that students should get higher marks. It is not number game. It is the game of reality. The real teaching is imparting knowledge so that the main purpose of the students is to get facts and figures about the subjects not getting numbers in the subjects.
2. Lack of Practicalism: Education has now become a profession for hording money. The primary purpose of education is getting money as to impart knowledge has become the secondary purpose. To stress on theorism avoiding practicalism in the field of education has become prominent issue of education.
3. Lack of Professional Teachers: The majority teachers who are engaged in the education field are not professional teachers. On account of this, students are not getting educated in the professional way – their skill of education is not up to the mark. They are being made rhetoric instead of plainspoken or unrhetorical figure.
4. Lack of Essence in the Education: Now-a-days education is being imparted without essence and zeal on account of this service-oriented approaches are being disappeared from the minds of students instead selfishness is being penetrated in them that is a dangerous point for the Society.
5. Lack of Budget: The Education Sector is not getting the proper budget owing to this new educational institutions are not being built up. The education sector is facing the financial crisis avoiding research and development in education. Due to lack of colleges and universities, all classes of the educational institutions have become over-size creating much difficulty in teaching.
6. Students Politics: Students’ politics is also one of the biggest issues faced by Education. It is creating bullying in the education sector. Students’ politics must be banned in real terms.
7. Lack of SWOT in Education: The tool SWOT i.e. Strength, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threat play an important role in boosting up the knowledge and skill, but the present education system lacks the spirit of SWOT that is creating issues in the education regime in imparting knowledge.
8. Expensive Education: Education has become much expensive on account of this, merit is not being followed in the education sector instead money has been involved in getting admission in the professional schools and colleges.
9. Short-Cut Tendency: The shortcut tendency has developed in the minds of students as they now instead of doing labor for the success want to be succeeded by using ill-means.
10. Passiveness and inconsistency: Passiveness and inconsistency are prevailing in the education sector l