“Educational Credit-Audit System”
Everyone agrees with the development of the Indian education system. Since the thought poked me, I thought it is to be apt to put it forth for reading first and discussion on various platforms to work genuinely towards the development of the Indian education system. As per me, I can call it as ―Educational Credit-Audit system”. I am very sure this is everybody‘s topic from parents, students, educators, boards of studies on education, etc. Before begin, I will introduce the ―Credit- Audit‖ system in education. Many of you know this term in terms of accounts, finance, and banking system, but can relate it to education? My answer is, yes.
This term Educational Credit audit came to mind when I went through many universities' URLs to study a variant of the educational system. If I stress to a lot, I know, in India like IIIT, IISER and NIT‘s have opted this system partially many years back. Students get the liberty to choose the courses which he/she would like to take up.
The choice mostly depended upon which subjects would be useful for the research. Each subject/ the course had a ―Credit‖ (weight-age) assigned to it. The student had to choose the course such that the minimum threshold of the ―Credits are fulfilled. The students would be required to give exams for these courses and would be evaluated against these courses only. In a scenario where students feel that they would like to study a course which he is interested in but would not like to give exams for this course, he could ―Audit that particular course provided his minimum threshold of the credit has been met.
When the student is interested to opt for some course genuinely for knowledge purposes, but the course is not going to contribute towards his/her domain or research area. In this case, students shall ―Audit‖ this course. He/ She shall attend all the lectures of this course, but not compulsory to appear for the exam. As a result, the student would be able to get the knowledge in which he/she is interested but was not stressed to write the exam. –“A Win-Win situation”. Faculty Article ABS E-Bulletin July-2019 Page 15 If students are very interested in a certain topic but aren't applicable to their major or graduation requirements, auditing a course can be a perfect way to learn more while preserving a high-grade point average.
Auditing is a low-risk way to learn more about a certain subject or investigate a potential new major or career choice. In my case, when I opted for a course of graduation in Computer Science, the subjects like Maths, Stats & Electronics subjects were complementary with it and had no choice to either credit or audit a single subject, often a few students genuinely were not interested in Stats, Maths while others may not be interested in electronics Hence, if we propose “Credit –Audit education system” after 10th standard till higher education. Students will have the freedom to choose the subjects which they want to genuinely study and appear for the exams. These subjects would be called the ―Credit” subjects and the marks scored by the students in these subjects would be taken into account for the final tally. And students can choose for ―Audit‖ the other subjects, if the students are interested to learn, they can even attend sessions and appear for the exams of these subjects if they wish to.
The only thing to relieve from stress & burden is outcome i.e. marks in these subjects would not be considered to qualify. This would certainly relieve the burden on the students. This puts a lot of undue stress on the students, which sometimes results in many unfortunate incidents. An educational credit-audit system would create an atmosphere that is more conducive to learning‘ than studying‘. Also, the number of options to choose from must increase. This would expose the students to the real outside world and would help them to make an educated choice.
This would also give a level playing field to students who may not be so good in academics but are good at work with hands. The suggested practice might have been already implemented or on the way to carry in coming sessions by a few boards or university. But this needs to be propagated in an extensive way to go to 2020.
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