Ashish Dey, professor of MCA and BCA courses at the Ignou centre, believes that spending large amounts of money on school fees does not ensure quality schooling

He feels that unemployment is on the rise and even some of the companies and over-staffed. No wonder, these days students are worrying a bit too much about securing jobs, and they can?t be blamed really, because what expensive books and all those years of hard work and toil end up in is a lot of frustration and students can not help feeling that they have been cheated and lied to. Right from when they are kids, parents and teachers feed them with ideas about the competitive world that they are living in, where survival of the fittest is the sole motto.

?Parents spend a lot of money for their kids? education. Obviously, they have every right to expect that their children, at the end of it all, are not singled out as the unemployed lot.?

When children fail, they are automatically coaxed to reappear in the exams. Repeated failures not only leave the hapless students bewildered but also frustrates the parents.

The mushrooming job consultancies in every nook and corner promise to offer option-galore.

However, it is a known fact that these educational institutes are often replaced by business organisations and it is difficult to recognise which is a genuine institution and not just another business organisation.

Often these institutes are fake and all that they really care about is how much profit they can make, even if it means conning some hapless parents and their equally helpless children. Too many of these institutes, or options, often leave the students and parents bewildered as they don?t find it easy to decide which one would cater to their interests, if at all.

?When a young guy is caught committing a crime, newspapers never stop from flashing it unequivocally. But on investigation it is seen that most of these young people come from economically backward (or helpless) classes and in order to make both ends meet, they take to ways and means that they otherwise wouldn?t had,? added Dey.

Arti Sahuliyar