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Rise Of A New Era

Smart classrooms are not only transforming education in private schools but are also rapidly making inroads in government ones as well

Devil in the Details

Lofty futuristic goals no doubt, with tectonic potential to transform India from an educationally laggard country into a self-reliant knowledge superpower only if sincere implementation can be ensured which would need enormous resources, and it is here that the NEP disappoints. The total combined public expenditure on education by the Centre and the states, currently at only about 4 per cent of GDP, falls way behind the target of 6 per cent envisaged in all previous Education Policies

A New Policy

The Four Year Undergraduate Programme, by introducing multiple exit points, may institutionalise drop-outs. Recent rise in enrollment in colleges has already created a tremendous pressure on the quality of teaching-learning process. With an additional year there will be difficulty in accommodating extra numbers for many institutions

Covid and Radio

Radio has been the cheapest way of delivery and extensively used for educational purposes all over the world for a long time. This technology has two aspects: radio broadcast for direct consumption and a recording of broadcasts to be stored and used much in the same way as audio material