1. Students to study that or those subject(s) they love to read. Within each subject, the topics they study is also by choice and evaluated by same online teaching softwares. They can even goto advanced topics taught in colleges, based on their capabilities and interests. All students need to do is pass minimum number of topics, overall in all subjects, not in each subject, as per their choice.
2. Obviously Technology will replace teachers and teachers will be mere guides and mentors.
3. Practical labs will be setup in each district headquarters, where students will pursue basic practicals at will guided by professionals. These labs will be privatised, means government will pay money to private companies, to run these labs on a contract basis, with more money based on feedback from students. Students who need knowledge on certain exclusive high tech industry, Online Video Chat will be enabled with Industry. This will reduce the cost of running practical labs for every field, substantially. Students will be given free student pass on public transports, authorised by school staffs, for every visit.
4. Common Entrance Tests will be conducted post higher secondary only on subjects students wish to pursue in college. Like if u want to study physics or mechanical engineering, you need to write CETs only on physics and topics relevant to mechanical engineering. Even those topics is as per your choice in a variety of topics, in that stream. With certain minimum number of topics of ur choice as compulsory. All government colleges will need CET.
5. Patents of new inventions and ideas will be considered as booster of CET scores and will be given as much importance as CET scores. Colleges will reserve certain amount of seats for patents alone and patents will be evaluated by industry and college professors. This point will have further discussions.
6. Universities wholly run by Industries will have a free hand selecting their students, even purely based on interviews. Government run colleges will have CETs and will collaborate with industry. CET will be a separate international governing body, like GMAT or GRE and only government run colleges are bound by its results. Industry run colleges can consider, partly consider or not consider the CET score.
7. History will be compulsory for each grade, with few basic topics. History will be included in the course material, with each country having it's own material.
8. The advantage of this system is students can pursue degree on the subject they love, and nobody can force them to study anything other than their interests. When you study what you love, there will be a huge increase in the number of inventions and the whole education system will go to next level of advancement.
9. Private companies running the labs can negotiate with the student inventors to share their inventions and patents with them for a fee, which is acceptable to the students. These inventions will put students under the industry and the world's radar and give them very good exposure to the outside world, which the companies must do. This will earn money for students, while studying itself and encourage private companies to setup labs at probably less fee from the government.
10. All class 5 to 9 ( optionally 10 ) students of government schools which has language other than English, as a medium of instruction, will go through a bridge course for a year, where they will be taught terms of English in mathematics to science, along with English speaking skills. For all those patrons of native language, you can always study till class 7 in ur mother tongue and take a bridge course for a year, which is a stupid idea. Because there is no college degree in STEM course which has language other than English as a medium of instruction. You may say that Germans study in German, French people in french. One thing you should remember is there is only french in France, German in Germany. But in India, there are hundreds of languages. We recommend students to study in English, because in universities, you will struggle. But, government will provide courses in major regional languages, with scientific and other important terms only in English.
11. Online education syllabus through tablets will need a huge participation by professors, online teaching companies and the industry. Every topic should go deep, very very deep. Like if i start studying solar power technology, the students should reach the summit where they should know how solar panel generates power,the areas it can be applied, what are the cost effective ways and new techniques in that field, also practically he must be able to create one from basic tools. Stage by stage the progress should go without too much of jargons. Finish the topic you have chosen, which is what i call immersive learning. Syllabus should start with certain number of topics in each subject and should keep on increasing every year with more topics and updating the old ones. It should be a continuous process.
12. The strength of this method lies in the education software. Even complex topics should be explained easily step by step. Normally 80% of each topic will be easy to understand. Remaining 20% will summarize the topic. U will have simple questionnaire at the end of each of the chapter. U should clear it to go to next chapter. You just have to clear the minimum number of topics, per grade.
13. The government can bring in an international organisation to bring in best minds in the world, to contribute to developing the course material, with basic principle of easy step by step approach. This will reduce the cost of the course material, bringing in high standards, which is also mutually beneficial to all the co-operating countries.
14. CET will be an international governing body, which will not only conduct tests but update and add topics the course material. CET will give text course material. Government colleges will need CET for admission and all government engineering colleges will be converted to purely academic purpose, producing professors holding phd. Admission to those colleges, means u r admitted to do masters and doctorates as well. Medical colleges will need CET.
15. Online libraries, with each topic, containing 3 - 5 books recommended for them should be available on the App. Government can negotiate with the publishers to give Rs. 10 for lending each book for 3 month period. Government paying the whole set of books will result in unnecessary ad-hoc lending of books, resulting in wastage of funds. This CET App can be downloaded on any tablet, with authentication allotted for each student. Those who can't afford tablets , should be provided tablets with subsidy, allowing only the prescribed library books.
