We do not have political leaders of caliber with vision, will and determination.
Due to coming elections 2014, country wide debate is going on but not on real
issues, not on real challenges, but making issues as usual of caste, secularism,
riots, emotional black mailing, taking masses to 1000 T gold and many more!
Who will look for Higher Education?
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On Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:04:06 +0530 wrote
> Tell us about the scale of the challenge India faces when it comes to higher
education.Pramath Ranjan Sinha:Let me give you some figures to set the context.
The total population between the ages of 15 and 24 in India is 234 million. If
India is to meet its 30 percent GER target by 2020, about 40 million students
would be enrolled in the higher education system in 2020. Currently, around 18.5
million students are enrolled in the higher education sector. The problem is that
as increasing numbers come out of the high school system, we just don't have the
capacity to absorb them into the college system. There is a massive mismatch in
the supply-demand, of proportions that have never been seen anywhere or anytime
in the world before.For instance, to reach the target of the 30 percent GER, let
alone aspire to developed nation standards, we need to create an additional
capacity of about 25 million seats over the next decade. This requires an
additional 10,510 technical institutions, 15,530 colleges and 521 universities!
That's the root cause of the problem – but, why did the problem happen?The
problem happened because for a long time we were happy with the public,
government-owned system. Unfortunately, until a few years ago, India was in
denial of the situation. While there was a government push to ramp up access in
primary and secondary schooling, when it came to higher education, we were too
focussed on the few good institutions we have, such as the IITs (Indian
Institutes of Technology) and the IIMs (Indian Institutes of Management) (none of
which are in the QS Top 200, though).It's a step forward that at least now we
recognise the scale of the challenge. But, there is no way such magnitude of
scale can be achieved by the government. It will need the private sector's active
participation.Educate, Empower, ElevateProf. Bholanath Dutta
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