Structure:

Introduction: Briefly explain the way in which education is being commercialized.

Body: Mention the ill effects of commercialization in point-wise format. Also provide the way forward.

Conclusion: Conclude that the education which is basic necessity for development of an individual should be provided without discrimination in terms of wealth.

Content:

Introduction:

The commercialization of education has been fairly a recent trend in India that stems from the educational reform in the country over the last two decades. It mainly materializes itself in mushrooming private schools, public schools and private universities and at the high education level. In a sense; it has added a financial element to the qualification of attending private schools and public and private universities.

Body:

The positive and negative impact on commercialization of education is discuses below—

Merits of Commercialization of Education:

1. Employment opportunity: Commercialization of education provides employment opportunity. It provides job opportunity as well as hundred percent job guarantees to the students. Many private institutions offer various job oriented job oriented courses, various degrees, diplomas, certificate course etc. Which help the students to engage in job. Due to the presence of commercialization of education various organization such as GATS (General Agreement on Trade in services), the students gets the opportunity to doing professional course at the local branch Campuses of foreign institutions. Like that the teachers, lectures also engaged in the job in foreign countries. This also reduces the unemployment problem of the country.
2. Economic Development: Commercialization of education helps in the process of economic development. Commercialization in education helps in increasing the rate of literacy, Gross Domestic Product, Gross national Income, per capital income, provide the job opportunity etc. Which is the major indicator of economic development of a country? This indicator also helps the human resource development. So commercialization of education contributes in the economic development of a country.
3. To Face the Global Challenges: Commercialization of education helps to face the global challenges of the world. The global challenges are as modernization, industrialization, privatization, globalization, information and communication Technology, Emergence of International knowledge Network, Role of English language etc. Commercialization of education helps the students in acquiring appropriate knowledge about the advantages in technology. Emergence of International knowledge Network, Role of English language etc.
4. Commercialization of education helps the acquiring appropriate knowledge about the advantages in technology. The challenges, how to adopt it, how help etc. and it also provide demand for training that can be applied in the real word. For this number of institutions of education system have transformed this structures and curriculum to meet the new global challenges
5. Personality development: commercialization of education helps in the personality development of the students. The commercialization of education provides formal education to students. For the personality development of the students they provide moral education which included the development commercialization skill, soft skill, how to maintain their physical health, to how face interview, how to with entrance examination how to adjust with the society etc. In the school syllabus the subject of moral science are included. This is helpful for the students in the entire life.
6. Quality of education: Commercialization of education give emphasis on quality education. The concept of quality education is broader term which indicates the quality of the learner, quality of the learning environment, quality content, quality process and quality outcomes. The commercialization of education makes effort to provide quality education to the students and also offer more demanding courses in the modern society. Generally every parents wants that their children take the quality education which help them in their future life as well in the development of society. A person who gets good education will become a more dependable worker, better citizen and strong consumer. The commercialization institution provides good learning environment, good infrastructure facility, good teachers etc. For achieving quality education.

Demerits of commercialization of education:

1. More emphasis on marks: commercialization of education give more emphasis on marks. It not tries to fulfill all round development of students. The students were forced to get more and more marks in each subject and only give importance on intellectual activities. Continuous education is too much in this type of institution. When the students got high marks and make good result then people generally will be increased every year and from their high amount of money the institution will be developed and commercially benefited. In some private institutions they provide cheap commercial and vocational studies and the parents blindly send their children to it.
2. Unable to maintain the principle of quality: Commercialization of education is unable to maintain the principle of equality. In the society there are three types of people were lived – upper class people, middle class people and lower people. For the impact of commercialization of education system the poor people as well as the weaker section of the society not be able to get education due to high rate of fees in admitting the students. Only the rich people will be able to take education because they have the capacity to spend high amount of money. There is various constitutional provisions such as article 46, but the commercialization of education not followed such type of provisions, because they always give emphasis on profit. Who pay money they will get better education.
3. Profit oriented: Commercialization of education always give emphasis on profit. It makes education as a business. People make rise about it but day by day it increased rapidly. In many schools for the commercial benefit there have soda machines, candy machines, fast food canteens, cafeteria in the boundary of the school or college campus; it is a example of From these sources they earn money from the students only for their benefit.
4. Costly: The impact of commercialization in education which make education very costlier. In the private institutions the admission fees, monthly fees, development fees, semester fees etc. Were very high. It is not possible to send their children in that type of institution. They demand high amount of donation in admitting the student in various course. But the same type of education was given in the government school. The government provide various facilities to the students, reservation are there, special facilities are there for the special students where as in the private institution it not be seen. From the commercialization point of view the students are the consumer, education is the things and the educational institutions are the shop.
5. Materialistic outlook: Commercialization of education develops the materialistic outlook among the students. The student have the attitude that to take proper education and to get a good job. They pay money and take education. The student only thinks of himself and not for the development of his region, society and for the nation. They want to spend an luxuries life. The commercialization of education makes the student self – centered. The students have the high expectation for the benefit of him. This type of education not help the student to develop the democratize attitude towards the people, towards the society and the nations. The students only busy with him and forget the duties of the citizenship and it produces a narrow outlook or narrow attitude among the students.
6. Over burden of Teachers: In the private institutions, for the commercial benefit they pressure on the teachers and give over burden of work for the whole day. They were bound to do the activities provided by the authority. They were busy to take the class, examination, remedial class, tutorial class, to check the examination copy etc. But on the basis of their hard working in the whole day they don’t get sufficient amount of money. Sometimes teachers can be suffered from anxiety; tension etc. and they were not satisfied with their job. The institutions have the outlook, the profit should be increased and not spend money in other activities. Only money is the main point is this type of institution.

Measures to overcome the problem:

In the end we can decide that the development of any nations depends mainly on the standards of its educational system. Education is the most powerful and effective instrument for including radical changes in the behavior of students. It is a powerful instrument of nation’s social economic and cultural development. There reforms envisage the withdrawal of state from its social obligations once for all. Thus, each country should decide that can be constructively introduced in their socio-economic and educational system.