Referring to Obama's statement last week where he emphasized that all the outstanding and performing international students will not only be given Student Visa extensions plus they will be offered jobs so that their outflow to their home countries be checked. And they could help in USA's further growth and the maintenance of it's technology pioneer lead over other nations. Obama also strongly made a point like all the previous US President's to focus on promoting a strong student base in the fields of S.T.E.M which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.
To the contrary Indian Prime Minister will never have to worry about the same as we already have a large pool of technology graduates in our country which are outnumbering the jobs offered to them each year on and on. Our international counterparts and rather Mr.Obama also might be guessing that why this happens only in India? Why doesn't he have a technological pool of smart generation lined up to compete and bring the best out of them and in return bring name to their country?
The answer is that in India each parent pushes their kids to study something meaningful out of which; a kid when grows up one day, can derive a living out of it. They try to make a solid knowledge base in their kids and this starts firstly with teaching of mathematics. The mathematics is usually taught in each Indian home to the kids using the favorite things they like: number of candies bought and shared, counting each and every bite of food they have, etc. Science and Mathematics is in the very basic of our education system and is taught daily by Indian parents to their kids. Indian citizens have a mindset that has been proved as a boon for the nation but rather it can also be termed as less liberal that here young kids are always brain-trained to believe that the only way to get a happy & satisfied plus respectful life is by studying; like each and every other senior family member has earned and that is via studying. And not only studying anything; but studying science, mathematics and technology only.
The trend is deep rooted in the education system too where usually science, mathematics and technology teachers are good as compared to arts, philosophy etc kind of teachers. Currently in India there are more Engineering colleges in a state than Arts, Commerce or Economics colleges are there. Only one state has a rough number of around 500 engineering colleges as compared to only 30-40 or even less arts, commerce etc colleges nowadays. The whole education system in India has slowly deviated to provide professional degrees to students and this has proved to be major factor in maintaining a large pool of techie human resources.
Plus the job industry also set a trend since the past 10 years that only professional degrees students are being recruited largely. The basic benefit which companies sees in hiring professional graduates is that they see a lot less risk in the initial incubation period of the resources. The aptitude of professional degree courses people is always higher than the graduates from normal colleges. Plus Government also aids the underprivileged or backward Indian citizens to enable their kids to study at competitive educational platforms. All these factors forms the major factors that why Indian prime minister has not to worry about STEM student base.
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