This page contains questions that need to be researched and answered with proper support in the form of authoritative references and evidences for the facts and claims presented in the answers. The main point of this this entire exercise is to allow the shaping of everyone's  perspective on the whole educational situation in India.

Guidelines

1. Follow the following guidelines religiously.
2. Write these answers as you would write an academic paper, but plagiarizing is allowed!
3. Only use authentic sources of information that are legitimate, unbiased and have academic credibility.
4. Wikipedia doesn’t have academic credibility! But you can use Wikipedia as a starting point and pursue the references at the end of the wiki article to get to more authoritative content.
5. Likewise, you can use any other web service such as Yahoo answers, Ask Jeeves or any online forums as only a starting point to get to accurate and academically credible references.
6. Rely heavily on empirical reasoning methods. Do not base the answer fundamentally on personal speculations or intuitions. In case no other source is available, explicitly state that your answer is your personal speculation or intuition.

Questions

Higher education

1. Why do almost all Indians have their first preference for engineering programs when they’re not going to end up being an engineer anyway?
2. Get the figures for how many people enroll/graduate as engineering students in Indian colleges, the actual demand for engineers in India and how many of engineering graduates actually pick up engineering as a career.
3. Gather strong statistical evidence to prove the claim that the average Indian’s educational preferences and choices are market driven rather than desire-based.
4. First, list down the various types of educational qualifications that an individual can gain by studying in India (exclude correspondence courses from abroad/online). Research on the different pathways one can take to get the various educational qualifications. Then illustrate the pathways in a diagram (perhaps a flow chart?)
5. In terms of competing population, find the level of competition for various careers available in India. The list includes but is not limited to IAS officers, CA, Software engineers etc.

Career

1. Why do entrants to giant Indian corporations need college education when their in-house training programs

Alternative education

1. Comprehensively list down all the institutions of higher education where home schooled students are accepted.

Psychology

1. Either firmly consolidate or disprove this statement using scientific evidence – When a human being is coerced into doing something, which may even be for his own benefit, he can only do so without any intrinsic motivators.
2. Explore this statement – Intrinsic and extrinsic motivators to do the same thing cannot exist in tandem.
3. ‘We need a learned society and therefore we need to incentivise learning so that everybody would learn but we cannot incentivise something without being able to measure it, can we? So we need exams to measure learning’.

Culture and organization

1. What are the challenges in the Indian culture/economy for an innovative individual who is looking forward to capitalize on his abilities to innovate? Engage a comparison between Indian innovation culture and its limitations and that of a country like the US which relies heavily on innovation-based enterprises.

More questions coming up soon.