The biggest change has to be in the exam system
Vineet Joshi, chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education, speaks to INDIA TODAY Associate Editor PADMAPARNA GHOSH on the higher education crisis and the need for change. Q. Is the CBSE to blame for such high cut off marks in colleges? A. The board exam is an achievement test on a curriculum of two years. It is wrong to look at it like an entrance exam. There has to be a ranking system, which takes into account performance at school and an entrance test like we have for the IITs. That would be ideal but then how do we account for disparities in testing and marking in state boards? That's a practical problem. Q. How and when will there be consistency among state education boards? A. There has to be a similarity on design of question paper and marking scheme and many boards have agreed to this. Hopefully, this will be implemented in the next few years. The issue involves all 41 boards and higher education institutes and everyone needs to be on board. Q. Why are students scor...