Education

What technology has done to education in developing countries

It is not shocking that more and more students are coming out as ineligible for graduate courses. Graduate courses add value to one’s achievement. Since one can earn more by virtue of one’s skills, there are lazy students who are looking for short cut like using technology and producing work which is not their own and in such bad state that it is shocking that they found an entry into the system.

1. Skill building takes time and many students are buying skills certificates with their mom and pop’s money only without putting in efforts to improve their skills.
2. It is not an excuse, that people from remote areas have no access to quality education so they should have access to use of technology to survive in academics. However, if overuse do not help them develop their skills who should be responsible for their drawbacks?
3. As there has been no promise that one with poor skills can enjoy the fruits of an area which required highly skilled labour, it does not mean that one should use unfair means by exploiting other people’s oroginal work by using AI.
4. It is fair, that people work hard and do that which they can do reasonably good with their skills and qualifications rather than doing damage to a system that needs to function on skills and ethics by paying bribes.

There are dangers from insincere people who want to enjoy the fruits of skills and talent of other people, however, there are various ways to select the good from the inefficient.

For example, people have used unfair means even to buy required marks in the IELTS exam. So, IELTS should be a starting point and there should be a random set of tests given to students without informing them what tests are going to follow in a proctored cum face to face setting. This might require few more skilled resources but it is better to provide jobs to skilled resources than making the place open for law-breakers.

All the loopholes in the set up began with cutting down of resources to make a system lean not in the sense of productivity but in the sense of cost-cutting.