Educational Reforms

I am sure everybody agrees that the Indian educational system requires reforms. Let me list out some of the most obvious problems and their solutions.
The medium of education should be either Hindi or English. Why do students need to study in any other language? If a state language should be taught it can be made the 2ND or 3rd language.
A student in India should be able to go to any state and work. If they study with a local language as the medium of instruction it seriously hinders their ability to find work outside their state.
Regarding those 'activists' who say that students should be taught in the state language or in their mother tongue, they are there only for publicity or because they feel jealous that somebody else is learning something better.
An example of these activists is Dr. Rajkumar from Karnataka (Yes the actor whose death caused all that chaos in Bangalore). He was one who fought actively for Kannada to be medium of instruction in state run schools. But the irony is that his sons went to Bishop Cotton School, a premier ENGLISH medium school in Bangalore. Why? Children of others should study in Kannada but my children in English. Why? I ask why?

Up to class 12 there are countless boards in India. It is time the state boards and the CBSE try to match their syllabi's. Many students find it difficult to migrate from one syllabus to another due to the gross disparity in both standards and the essence of the syllabus. The CBSE syllabus for Science and Mathematics should be made universal i.e. all state boards must follow the CBSE syllabus and text books. Even the Science and Math board exams in the 10th and 12th standards should be the CBSE paper with CBSE type correction. This would make the Science and Math marks of all students in India universal and comparable.
Only Social Science and Language syllabus should be decided by the state as Local History and Geography changes from state to state.

Some state boards are in pathetic condition. The corrections are so bad that students practically queue up by the hundreds to apply for re-evaluation. Teachers who have erred considerably in correction should be penalised heavily, even put in Jail for a month and barred from correcting papers for life.
Board examinations should be conducted with 100% video taping of the examination hall. This would reduce malpractice and give some value to the marks scored in exams. Again it is some state boards that are pathetic on the malpractice issue. Any kind of malpractice should lead to a jail term. If the examiners are involved then they should be jailed for life (Is it such a big crime you ask? Well sending the efforts of thousands or even lakhs of students down the drain is a SERIOUS offence according to me).

The constant re-writing of the social science text books should be stopped. Does history change so dramatically when there is a change of power in the government that entire textbooks have to be rewritten? The solution here is pure political will.

Now coming to professional education. Here private colleges are the rulers of the arena. There are colleges that run from what are practically sheds. Institutions with foreign sounding names which are nothing but bogus institutions. Universities whose degrees don't get recognized anywhere. Colleges without any kind of labs. The list is endless but the solution is one: Better enforcement of rules laid down by bodies such as the AICTE.
Foreign institutions advertising in India should be regulated; many students find out that the institutions are bogus only on landing in the foreign country. Even worse is the case of students who learn that their degrees are not recognized only on completion of their course.

The above problems should be first sorted out before trying to implement 'Education for ALL' as an education lacking any value is worthless.

Solutions to the above problems do not require too much money, only will.

Hope our country reforms the education system or our dream of a Knowledge based economy will crumble soon, along with it the dream of being a super power.
Today Knowledge is power; nothing demonstrates this fact better than Google.