Education module

Vidya poshak

Topic taught
• Birth of Vidya Poshak
• Aim
• Operation
• Projects involved
• Future plan
Description
Mr.Raghavendra N Tikot is the founder of Vidya Poshak. The idea started in the year 2001,it is the first NGO working for the college students. In the developing economy we can see that there is a growing demand for the higher education which leads to the increase in the number of institutions. Maintaining the quality of education is a great challenge for these institutions.
The statistics of the higher education in 1960s says, around 25,000 students joins the higher education. Out of these
• 12%----->Arts
• 6%------->Comers
• 3-4%------>Science
• 78%------->Other courses
In the year 2004 5% of these graduates got employment, 20% joined to their family business, 5% joined to PG courses & the other 70% is not in the account. These loopholes of the education system give birth to the Vidya Poshak. It takes students studied in vernacular language & economically poor background, gives training to face the interview to get jobs. After negotiating with the companies & colleges Vidya Poshak arranged a campus interview in the year 2004, in which 22%of trained students got job. In 2008 140industries visited north Karnataka. They also made an arrangement for the students to get training in industries during the last 6 months of their course. Vidya Poshak made a benchmark, when 25 universities adopted this system. This is how the projects are made sustainable by Vidya Poshak.
Key points
• Addressing the youth in India.
• New hope to the students.
• Remarkable change in the education system.
• New ray of hope to the students.
• Enhancing the role of teacher.
Learning
• Felt the need in this field
• This model can be replicated easily
• Sustainability of the project by absorbing by the system itself