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A good education empowers our children, making them strong enough to look after themselves in any given situation. |
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Delhi, as Capital, of the country had the potential to emerge as an education hub for higher education till a few years ago. But it seems that a state of inertia and short-sightedness of the Congress government in Delhi over the last one and a half decade have made us to miss this great opportunity. Nowhere it is more evident than in the case of Delhi University. Not a single new college has been opened by Congress ruled Delhi government over the last 15 years. With more than 2.5 Lakh students applying for Delhi University colleges this year too, the numbers of undergraduate seats have been stagnating at 54000 only for quite a number of years. We need to open atleast 15 new colleges immediately, decentralise campuses, open an online university and start evening colleges in all morning colleges to enhance the number of undergraduate seats in DU. |
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Meanwhile, we need to have better hostel facilities for students coming outside Delhi also. Studies have shown in the past that these students, especially the women, are living in unsafe environment in private accommodations in absence of the adequate hostel facilities. There are places like Burari ( near Delhi University Campus)in Delhi where student hostels can be built in large numbers to cater to the needs of these students.We can also ask the Defence Ministry for their land near the north campus of Delhi university to build hostels for students.
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The total infrastructure of the Delhi University has also been stagnant; on an average 65- 70 students are studying in one class today. |
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Colleges may also ask for extra FAR from the Government to build more infrastructures.Delhi is also facing a challenge of linking skill development with the higher education to ensure that the youngsters getting out of college are well equipped to take up new jobs and contribute to the economic growth of the city while pursuing their own fruitful careers. There is an urgent need to look into this aspect. Restructuring of our industrial training institutes, linking college education with skill development programmes through National Skill Development Mission can be one of the solutions which would help to break the stalemate in which we have landed due to state of inertia of the present day government in Delhi.
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There is also a huge scope for linking world class institutes such as Harvard University and London School of Economics to educational institutes in Delhi so that students can get the best of the world class experience here. |
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DELHI AS AN EDUCATIONAL HUB
Every year, the university has to perforce turn away many aspiring students and is unable to meet the needs of the growing young population of Delhi. Notwithstanding the presence of five universities, the demand is far outstretching the availability of educational opportunities, as the admission rush in the University of Delhi every summer will testify.
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- A 2 to 4 % relaxation in admission to students passing out of Delhi Boards
- There is urgent need to envision and plan the opening up of new colleges near to specific localities. It is suggested to open 15 new colleges immediately for East, West and Dwarka Campuses of Delhi University in addition to the existing North and South Campus.
- An online university can be opened to provide online education
- Extendizng reach of existing prestigious institutions in Delhi(some famous /popular colleges, etc) to other states by these institutions opening up their establishments there (based on model of IIMC) so that students from other students don't have to come here in large numbers, instead they can study there in these institutions This will create more opportunities for Delhi students.
- Opening up more medical, engineering and other professional colleges in PPP Model.
- Using CSR initiatives to pool in resources of private sector.
- Linking higher education institutes in Delhi with prestigious m universities such as Harvard and LSE.
- The Global Fellowship Programme needs to be initiated for Visiting Faculty from Universities of other countries for Research Oriented Inter-University Programmes on the subjects like Environmental Engineering, Disaster Management and Transportation & Traffic Engineering etc.
- Facilitating opening up of campuses of world class universities and institutions in Delhi so that students don't have to go abroad.
- Streamlining Distance Education and linking it with global institutions.Increase in Technical Education opportunities, in the public and private institutions.
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The overall theme of growth with quality has to be kept in mind and a number of concomitant steps must be taken for improving the quality of education in Delhi Government's technical, professional and higher education institutions. These steps include granting functional autonomy to institutions, wherever possible, and taking steps to encourage renowned academics and professionals to join the Delhi's educational institutions. Professional courses should be industry oriented and practice based. For this to happen, all professional bodies /industrial associations should prepare generalized competency profile for different vocations/sectors of employment and based on this, curricula at different levels should be developed. |
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AICTE/Government may stop further mushrooming andcommercialization of professional institutions in the conventional disciplines and allow the system to stabilize with specific reference to making available right type of faculty in the technical/professional institutions. There is also a need to promote entrepreneurial development in the field of technical education. |
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Academicians should be encouraged for collaborative research andthey should do consulting and help build competencies |
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ENABLING AND FACILITATING HIGHER EDUCATION -
The role of any government must also be to enable and facilitate not only access to education but also the education process itself. In this regard too, the Congress government has shown lack of vision and planning. It is imperative that some key steps be taken.
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These include the following:
- Creation and extension of hostel facilities
- Making campuses and colleges more safe for students, especially women students
- More U-Specials and concession on metro travel of at least 10 per cent for all college students
- Linking Skill Development and employment with Higher Education
- Support to students from weaker sections:
- Empowerment of economically weaker sections has been a priority for the BJP since long.
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We find a number of Plan schemes and programmes being implemented for the welfare of SC / ST students. But there is no provision in these plan schemes for providing scholarships to students of economically weaker sections. It is the demand of the time to make a provision to provide financial assistance to students of weaker sections in order to enable them to pursue higher education courses. The assistance to economically weaker section students may be given on merit-cummeans basis, out of those who are desirous to pursue higher education. |
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The students of economically weaker sections can also enhance their skills and capabilities for ensuring the rapid economic development and integration in the national main stream. The students who could not seek admission in higher education / Colleges due to high level of admission fee will be benefited by this scheme.Education, as perceived by the lower strata of the society is neither a status symbol nor a passport for going abroad. It's simply a way to mpower one to earn money. That circumscribes the whole gist of it. And the very element of vocational training, quality and the tool to empower one to earn money is missing. |
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A concerted political will and commitment is required to deliver the state's promises to its people of access to education and empowerment leading to a better quality of life. The need of the hour is to upgrade the Higher Education system to train the increasing proportion of young population so India can truly realise the prophesised 'Demographic Dividend', and nowhere is this more evident than in Delhi, where thousands are being denied admission to colleges in their hometown. |
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