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Source: The post is based on an article “India@75 looking at 100: A young achiever’s dream for Indian education” published in The Indian Express on 19th October 2022.
Syllabus: GS 2 – Social Justice
Relevance: changes required in the higher education in India
News: The article discusses the change required in the education system in India.
Education system in India has undergone significant changes with the time. It is expected to further change with the New Education Policy, 2020.
However, there are certain problems present in the higher education system in India and these needs to be addressed.
How higher education system in India can change?
Accessibility: There is a need that education especially at the higher levels should be easily accessible by all strata of the society.
Research: More institutions should be devoted towards research activities. This leads to enhanced learning.
Competition: There is also a need to ease the competition for higher education.
Skill based: Education needs to be skill based as there are many schools that lack experiential learning. This has also been included in the New Education Policy, 2020.
Number of teachers: There should be a greater number of teachers as teachers are very important for the education system.
Self-Reliant: On the part of students, they should understand their own responsibility and become self-reliant. This will stop spoon feeding by teachers.
Gender equality: There is also need to provide equal opportunities to women in all the sectors including education in higher studies.
