Well to the best of my understanding and experience this recommendation is half baked. GOI or our education system just cannot become world class by employing 3 lakh teachers and from where?
Already our government and society has downgraded the profession to such an extent that the mediocre or still lower in the class will opt for teaching. Look at the engineering colleges and majority of the business schools, engineers and MBA who cannot get the "proper" job join teaching. What’s our hope? Students learning suffer, employers suffer and we as nation suffer for the lack of quality professionals and work force and work culture.
Do we have the political will and patience to try Finland model. Started in 1970s, Finland education system from primary to university is being considered as best in the world. Other following are Singapore, South Korea and Israel. Teachers in Finland are trusted by the system and society. The formal / informal evaluation is done by the teachers and taken as such. However to know the learning standards a random sample of students are evaluated and report on the state of learning published for further objective setting. There are no accreditations or grading in Finland. Overall - rather a superset of objectives is set by consensus - and institutions try to reach these objectives by the means available to them but complete freedom on methodology.
Teachers in Finland are paid well, have freedom to innovate and research and apply those ideas for student learning. Do we have the will and intention even to try on these lines? If done consistently and persistently, in twenty years we will not have governance and deliverables problems we are facing now.
Start with creating an eco system to produce teachers who want to be teachers, are capable of doing research and can innovate. Can take majority of the students in class to their peak learning capacity and are trusted by the society and system.
Refer to the transcript of an interview with Finnish Education Expert
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