Present status & Problems:
India’s higher education is lacking in all aspect from expenditure,
quality to student enrollment.
Present status & challenges as in 2019-
- Government
expenditure is approx. 2 to 3 % of GDP; it is far below than all education
expenditure of BRICS countries.
- Even
the Institution of immense scheme falls short of the requirement.
- Bureaucracy is high in a higher education institute.
- India
gross enrollment ratio is approx. 25.8 % whereas China has 51 % &
Europe & North America has 80 %.
- India’s
half of the population is under 25 years;
- Quality of
education is very poor. Employers often complain about poor graduation degree as they need to provide additional quality training to their new joiner.
2019 initiative by Government
Government has taken two new initiative to upgrade both quality &
quantity of Higher educations
- Draft
National Education Policy à draft NEP
- EQUIP Ã education quality up gradation & inclusion programme.
Earlier Committees was :
- Radhakrishnan Commission in 1949.
- National education policies
1948 & 86.
- Yashpal Committee, 2009
- National Knowledge Commission,
2017
- Draft NEP 2019
·
Increase government expenditure minimum 6 % of
GDP
·
Provide the quality of education via quality
teacher
·
Increase teacher-student ratio
·
Syllabus & courses should be updated
What needs to be done?
- Increase
funding from diverse sources :
- The source could be Budget allocation, CESS, CSR,
donation
- Critique: As
per CAG report over 2.4 lakh crore, CESS collected by the government for education & sanitation remains unutilized. It shows, problems
lie not in the fund but will power of government.
- Increase
access to higher education in both quality & quality aspect with a
better rate of degree completion of students.
- Need world
class research-intensive universities to attract the best brain &
produce top research.
- Student
outcome
- Ensure
the private higher education work for the public good
- Reform in
the governance college and permit more autonomy & innovation
- .Better
coordination between UGC & ministry
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