The Big Picture: Education & Aspiring India

In the Union Budget 2020, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has suggested speedy implementation of the new education policy, besides several measures that will bring in a paradigm shift in the educational systems and creation of employment in India and abroad. The budget earmarked Rs 99,300 crore for the education sector in 2020-21 and about Rs 3,000 crore for skill development. In the previous Union Budget, the government's allocation for the sector was Rs 94,800 crore. The FM said about 150 higher educational institutions will start apprenticeship embedded degree/diploma courses by March 2021 and will start a programme whereby urban local bodies across the country would provide internship opportunities to fresh engineers for a period up to one year. To create infrastructure in education sector, steps would be taken to enable sourcing External Commercial Borrowings and FDI so as to able to deliver higher quality education. Institutions that are ranked within top 100 in the National Institutional Ranking framework will start degree level full-fledged online education programme for students of deprived section of the society. On this edition of The Big Picture we will analyse the best way forward for education in India. Joining me on the program today are:

Anchor: Frank Rausan Pereira
Producer: Sagheer Ahmad

Guest Name: Anita Rampal, Professor, Department of Education, University of Delhi

Sushil Chandra Tripathi, Former Secretary, Ministry of HRD, GoI

Aditi Tandon, Special Correspondent, The Tribune

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The Big Picture: Education & Aspiring India

Allocation in education in the budget.

Issues:
By 2030 India will have the highest working age population.
Needs of the system in both higher and school education has not been met.
School education - RTE act not extended from 3 to 18 years.
Only 12% schools are RTE compliant.
NITI Aayog report- attempt to try and underplay the inputs. overlooking outcomes.
Short of teachers.
Justice Verma report- large number of teacher education is privatised and it is substandard.
Gap between knowledge and skill.
The commercialisation of higher education.
Online education- is like selling degrees.
Highly degree dominated education sector.
FDI in education --> attract finances in the sector. Majority of budget is for school education and of it majority is for Sarva shiksha Abhiyan.
Biggest challenge- Primary education. learning and innovation indices low.
School infrastructure does not capitalise on innovation.
Skill courses are designed by industrialists and not educationists.
Dividing wall between Academic and practitioner.

Way forward:
Good teacher education
Peer learning
RTE should be complied with and successful implementation.
Secondary education linked with life skills.
Vocational education has to be brought to the mainstream.
Quality of higher education - imrove.
Online education-selective
Indian universities with foreign collaboration.
Work based learning.
Reforming AICTE and UGC.

[karansheth]

I’ve done my MBA from Nirma uni, and the course is so diverse and well developed. When i meet people from normie unis’ i can clearly differentiate myself from others. All their college life they haven’t attended more than 20-30% of classes, no news paper reading, no out of the box thinking, copy paste assignments, writing assignments. Overall i think structural reforms are required than just mugging up things but relating whatever you study to practise. Over that colleges have to be stricter, more engaging, dynamic teaching, more case study based approach than theoretical mugging up. Our college had 30 minutes compulsory news paper reading session for 30 minutes everyday, which inculcated news paper reading and enhances your critical thinking and analysis skills.

[sunidhisharma]

These short within half n hour discussions are better than long hour debates. Keep it this crisp always RStv
Thank you!

[EverythingEsoteric]

This discussion happened 1 yr ago and this is probably one of the very few discussions where panelists gave their transparent views without only supporting the government policy..

[deepakshukla]

Agree with Anita rampal's opening remark.

[vinayrathaur]

We require All India Services in teaching sector for planting innovative mindset in students from primary level. Only then teacher will get great respect.
Then innovation will take place in our country.
And who innovates their country become the real Superpower of the world.

[sauravkumardubey]

Aditi Tandon’s first argument is couldn’t understand what Anita rampal’s entire argument was

[jayrammaths]

Education is not only for the purpose of Job but also for Gain knowledge .🇮🇳

[ttbxneh]

"....exams continue to be meaningless...copy-paste medium...." -Anita Rampal🥺
I'm pursuing BCOM, now it seems the entire concept of education in this culture is hollow.😦
I resolve to assume full control of my own education. From now on 🧐no relying traditional and popular definition of education. 💪

[vinayrathaur]

Readers r good leaders.
So we need to work a lot in quality education.

[bipinmishra.Indian]

As panelist expressed that we need to develop skillful attitudes in our colleges as well as school education from the Secondary level as vocational training which is required to fulfill our whole gamut of the Education in real sense.
The extracurricular activities must also have done within the boundary of the educational institution so that our students can be able to think out of boxes and be able to perform in all fields of the excellence abroad India and the World ...
Also it is the need of our that we must enhance and provide incentives about research and Development for New India and for better tomorrow...!!!

[jayshelke]

Sushil Chandra Tripathi Sir Thank you Rajya Sabha

[vishnuprasad]

The very first argument makes a lot of sense. Learning isn't just one on one. You learn from discussions and questioning. Online learning should be done to further polish your knowledge and skills. Basic education up to UG should be classroom based.

[Magnusinfo]

The online learning platform is a good idea, it should be implimented properly rather name sake.

[piyushranjan]

When a hrd secretary is criticizing after retirement.
WTF .. I'm confused Who will take accountability for these situations and who will implement reforming policies.!!

[selflesspk]

after watch full video i came to the point that .anita rampal is talking very route and central causes in edu..she has good experience of life and education

[manjeet]

I completely disagree with Anita Rampal. College campus degree has no substitute but online degree has its own importance. If the standard of examination is not compromised it will help a lot of people who cannot afford. But the main concern is admission process. It must be of a decent standard. It shouldn't be like that anyone just enrolled and can take courses just for auditing. Level must be maintained.

[dram]

five years ago school in my village was being upgraded to higher secondary.. we had the choice to opt for Arts, Commerce or Science streams... i requested the Headmaster as well as village elders that we must get science stream as Arts is available just 4 km from our village.. but little serious was done in this regard...and we have Arts stream in more than 70% schools of the districts.. but only a few have science...and fewer have faculties and proper infrastructure..
Despite the fact that on per capita my village probably would complete with some of the developed regions.. yet efforts for development are rare...
I wanted to study science... but only after completing my 12th i was told that to become a Doctor, you must have science in high school..

[pagiajitsinh]

All right said by tripathi sir
I am engineer

[vishusharma]

I bet Mrs Rampal has never heard about online education Platform like MIT OCW and Khan academy. Otherwise she would have made some intelligent comments. I am doing my MS in Mechtronics and when I don't understand anything in class I take help of these resources + youtube tutorials and they very helpful. I think GOI needs to invest in online education platforms like NPTEL. They need to gamify education to make it more appealing and interesting like Kerbal Space Program.