Narayana Murthy. (File photograph)
N R Narayana Murthy mentioned we should present a lot respect and pay higher salaries to our lecturers and researchers.
Software icon N R Narayana Murthy on Wednesday advocated accelerating the National Education Policy’s end result by inviting 10,000 retired, extremely achieved lecturers from the developed world and from India in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) areas to create 2,500 “Train the Teacher” schools in the nation’s 28 states and eight union territories. This course alone is just not ample, Murthy mentioned.
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“We must show much respect and pay better salaries to our teachers and researchers. We must also provide better facilities to our researchers. We must honour them. They are role models for our youngsters. That is why we instituted the Infosys Prize in 2009. It is our small contribution to further the cause of research in India,” he added.
The “Train the Teacher” programme needs to be 12 months-lengthy, he mentioned at a press convention in Bengaluru, the place the Infosys Science Foundation introduced the Infosys Prize 2023 in six classes.
“Experts tell me that each set of four trainers can train 100 primary school teachers and 100 secondary school teachers a year. We will be able to train 250,000 primary school teachers and 250,000 secondary school teachers every year by this method,” the founding father of Infosys mentioned.
These educated Indian lecturers can themselves turn out to be trainers over a interval of 5 years.
“We should pay about USD 100,000 a year for each of these retired teachers. This twenty-year programme will cost us USD one billion a year and USD 20 billion for twenty years. Our nation, targeting a GDP of USD five trillion soon, will not find it a big financial burden,” Murthy mentioned.
If you assume that is costly, you could recall the phrases of Derek Bok, a former President of Harvard University, who mentioned, “If you think education is expensive, try ignorance,” he famous.
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