How does a business and management consultancy company impact the Indian education system?
Education plays key role reducing poverty and inequality, improving health, enabling the use of new technologies, and creating and spreading knowledge. Indian Education Sector needs to transform itself to be able to provide accessible and affordable quality education services. It is a sector that is top priority with the Indian government. The Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh set-up National Knowledge Commission in 2006 to get recommendations in with regard to the following focus areas – Access; Concepts; Creation; Applications and Services. Though National Knowledge Commission has done an excellent job in coming out with recommendations on each of the focus areas, there is huge gap in the quality and accessibility of education in India. No one needs to refer to research studies written on the poor state of affairs of Indian education system to know how poorly it is doing. We all know it. The challenges are many whether we talk about the quality or accessibility. We also know that it