Be fair to students

There is very strange phenomenon going on in education system.

And this is harming talent and future of students. The entire world is at loss.

This is about how to give admission to students in universities.

At present this is based on:

1. Score in Aptitude Test
2. Grades in High School
3. Recommendation letters
4. Essay about your self and why you wish to join this stream this university etc
5. Extra Curricular Activities

Of these the first one Aptitude Test can be seen as objective indicator of aptitude. Though no test can be so perfect to judge potential of a human brain. 

Now see the others.

Grades in High School - So if some student for any reason could not do well then that will have negative impact on his or her future. Students are made to select streams and their life is often locked into these streams.

Recommendation Letters - These are very subjective. No person has right or ability to judge another person and tell good or bad points. These can be influenced and even bought.

Essay - No everyone may be very good in expressing self. That does not mean he or she is anything less in potential to study a subject. These can be influenced by parents, teachers and others.

Extra Curricular Activities - What link this has to students potential to study a subject. If someone is not interested in music dance sports or voluntary service and wish to focus on one studies then how he or she becomes less eligible or be put at disadvantage as compared to those who are taking part in such activities. These activities are a matter of choice and should not influence a persons ability or opportunity to excel in a subject. 

So what could be the procedure for admission.

1. Till age 15 years every student must get basic education in all subjects. Extra curricular activities in schools must be optional. School time on studies and extra curricular activities must not overlap.

2. Age 15 - 17 students allowed to select stream of choice. It should not be fixed. They should be allowed to change. And this selection of stream should not be restricted to have fixed number of students in a stream. If in a school all students wish to study science, let them. During second half of this period, age 16 - 17 students should list subjects of their choice and start getting some basic information about these subjects.

3. After passing school at the age of 17 students have choice of taking Aptitude Test at any point and allowed two - three times a year. In addition there must be Subject Aptitude Test to see students latent aptitude in a subject.

4. Universities can then give admission based on these Aptitude Test. In case of tie, group of students can decide on the basis of Subject Aptitude Test for final selection. For example University A has 100 seats in Subject X and 250 students have applied then Subject Aptitude Test can help in deciding.

5. In fact Subject Aptitude Test should hold more weight in who should study what. Every student must be allowed to take Global Test on any subject. Those with high score in Subject Aptitude Test should get admission to study further.

6. Make free use of technology. Open schooling, distance education, eclasses should be promoted. Universities should rely more on objective testing before awarding degree and should not differentiate between degrees of students who took classes in person or eclasses.  

This system will help in:

- Reducing subjective bias in admission.
- Not letting any irrelevant factor affecting students future life.
- Not letting less performance at one stage blocking future chances of doing good.
- Avoiding making career mistakes.
- Not letting talents go waste stuck in wrong lines.
- Eliminating stress of admission


Let talents explore itself. World will have better light.

Are you with humanity

World is going through a decisive time. No one and no nation can sit on fence.

You can not support anti humanity activities be directly or indirectly and still hope to be seen and treated as great.

It is sad and surprising that mighty nations are extending support to terrorism, using veto power to protect terrorists. Masks are off. What can be bigger misuse of veto power. What can be more shameful that nations are protecting those who are killing innocent people. Where is the accountability of such nations?

Such nations must keep in mind how world remembers Hitler. Like people, nations too have character and those with bad character have no place in world of future. It is so unfortunate that nations which do not trust own people, have no democracy, give no freedom to own people are trying to dictate to world what should be done what not.

Those in power must understand that world is seeing a new evolution of consciousness. Bullying can not be world order, humanity will be. Bullying is abuse of power. And abuse of power is straight path to downfall and self destruction.

Time has come when nations have to shed narrow minded selfish interest. Death of every single innocent person is responsibility of world leaders. These are cold blooded murders. No nation can hide behind technicalities. Truth can never remain hidden. Either you are saving humanity or destroying it. Either you are saving human beings or killing. You can not sit on fence. Those sitting on fence are also responsible for destroying humanity as this supports bad character nations and their anti humanity deeds.

Time to decide

Responsibility of world leaders

Every person dying or hurt due to terrorism is responsibility of world leaders. Every such death is murder, cold blooded murder. And the blame goes to world leaders who are not doing enough to stop this and those who are directly or indirectly supporting it.

How often we hear world leaders saying that they will do what is in the interest of their nation.

May be they are showing their spirit of nationalism by this. But they do not realize humanity must survive first, then nations can live peacefully.

World today is seeing conflicts because of disorder in priorities. National interests have become more important than interests of humanity. Result - we have wars, terrorism and lack of cooperation on important humanity issues like environment.

Leaders taking care of own nation is good but it should not be at the cost of human values and principles. World leaders must first accept responsibility towards humanity. Only then they can be called true leaders. If they do so, United Nations will automatically become more meaningful in solving issues faced by world. We can then create a world peaceful, safe and with better life for all.

Then why this is not so? Reason is simple. Shortsighted selfishness. Some leaders and nations believe that by acting selfish they are gaining edge over others. In fact this concept of 'we and others' is the root cause of all major problems. World has now become global and countries can not remain in such fragmented state. When humanity suffers, everyone one will suffer sooner or later. World leaders must understand and respect this. One must prove worthy of high position and power. World leaders must not let down humanity because sometimes it becomes too late to amend.