Kumud MishraAIR 69 · CSE 2024 · 239 wordsTheir whole copy
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Recently India allowed the entry of foreign educational institutes in sync with its New Economic Policy (NEP) 2020.
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The role of FE inst. in improving quality
(1) These institutions are now permitted to set up the campuses (those who are listed in top 500 in the world university rankings)
(2) They can enhance the opportunities and avenues for quality education. Eg. The knowledge transfer
(3) They will provide an engaging environment and ecosystem for the students.
(4) They will help in improving the accessibility and the affordability of education.
However, the challenges remain:
(1) The question of the affordability by the vulnerable sections. Ex. they will have autonomy to decide fee structure.
(2) The rural-urban divide and digital divide in the country. Ex. concentration of the universities in urban centres.
(3) May not provide similar quality and standards like in their home country.
(4) The question of regulation and autonomy of the institutions.
Major improvements needed to improve the education sector
(1) Focus should also be on the domestic institutions as only 21 Indian institutions are there in QS world University Rankings.
(2) Capacity building of the domestic institutions. Ex. IoE initiative.
(3) Expanding Indian institutions. Ex. First IIT campus in Zanzibar (Tanzania).
(4) Checking the issue of quality access, equity.
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Ex. GER is 27.1% only in higher education.
Thus, the need is to revamp the system to emerge as "global knowledge superpower" for realisation of SDG-4 (Quality education).
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