government to develop a curriculum with a view to encourage kids towards innovation.According to Mr. Altman, India is focusing too much on scientific research at high level and has been ignoring science education at school level, which he argues is not good for the scientific health of the country in the long run.
"Focus of the Indian Government should be on science education in high schools. This is something which has to be looked into in great detail by the government. You just can't take about science and innovation. You got to encourage kids outside of their restrictive curriculum in schools," said Mr. Altman, who got Chemistry Nobel in 1989 for his work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
"I am not talking about villages and rural areas (where there is not much of an education infrastructure), even in small towns and large cities, many students graduate from college with very high percentage levels and grades, but they do not know what to do with them after that," Mr. Altman told PTI.
The Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the Yale University said that the Indian government should develop an educational curriculum which helps the younger generation and the school going kids develop the basics of innovation.
For further details visit as : www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200906080911.htm
"Focus of the Indian Government should be on science education in high schools. This is something which has to be looked into in great detail by the government. You just can't take about science and innovation. You got to encourage kids outside of their restrictive curriculum in schools," said Mr. Altman, who got Chemistry Nobel in 1989 for his work on the catalytic properties of RNA.
"I am not talking about villages and rural areas (where there is not much of an education infrastructure), even in small towns and large cities, many students graduate from college with very high percentage levels and grades, but they do not know what to do with them after that," Mr. Altman told PTI.
The Sterling Professor of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the Yale University said that the Indian government should develop an educational curriculum which helps the younger generation and the school going kids develop the basics of innovation.
For further details visit as : www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200906080911.htm
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