Summary: Access to higher secondary education in India faces multiple constraints, but these can be mitigated with practical and implementable solutions. The limitations in funding for infrastructure can be alleviated by pooling resources across regions rather than dedicating them to a single institution. Teacher salaries can be managed through contractual and freelance models, incentivizing performance over long-term employment. Rural and remote areas, often struggling with access, can benefit from a hub-and-spoke model that uses top educators to mentor local instructors, ensuring quality control and competency. Additionally, outdated curricula can be updated by integrating real-world projects into education, promoting innovation and practical learning. Socio-economic factors, such as affordability for families in rural areas, can be addressed through increased scholarship schemes and awareness programs. While issues like child labor persist in these regions, regional NGOs can help raise awareness, and government schemes should target these communities. Gender inequality, particularly concerning safety and travel for female students, can be tackled by promoting female academicians in regional networks and raising awareness of available state and cultural education schemes. The government’s push for reforms, like the upliftment of the marriage age to 21, can help prevent early marriages, which often hinder educational pursuits. Finally, the efficiency of government policies can be enhanced through the “Maximum Governance, Minimum Government” approach, ensuring more transparency and accountability. Citizen awareness campaigns, possibly using influencers or role models, can drive engagement and participation in government schemes. Drawing inspiration from successful models like Delhi’s education system can provide a framework to address these challenges and improve higher education access in India.
Case Problem
Access to Higher Secondary Education in India
Opinion
We will endeavor to have the insights on the constraints and on the same table, the solution regarding the bottlenecks of higher education in the country which are practically possible and implementable. Therefore step by step the following constraints with their approachable solution altogether is defined below –
Funding limitation on Infrastructure front can be resolved via common pool for a cluster of regions rather than single dedicated studying station. Teacher salaries constraint can be better off by contractual and freelancing activities and should be incentivized rather than a means of employment merely.
Rural and Remote Areas constraint have covered under former statement solution. Population pressure is not such a kind of constraint rather it may induce the competency among higher education bracket among the children/students and for better quality of education, hub and spoke model should be introduced by keeping the top brains to mentor the designated group to excel and designate the responsibility along with the support for/with their instructors. This will create the quality control on the education they would have.
Outdated curriculum and be countered by the act of introducing the theoretical knowledge with the actual time practices as a mandatory project being part of their curriculum. And also, the project shared increased at least at par with the One-Chapter One-Project model with the minimal cost of production via economical and regularized means should be rewarded to increase the innovation and competency.
Socio-Economic Factor which can be neglected as per the current non required base for the families in rural areas to their affordability for uniform, stationary and other overhead expenses should be ignored against the quality of education till the situation improves for them. Also Child Labour is more prevalent in their cultures, awareness activities should be organized by regional NGOs and Scholarships for niche segment to cover the maximum candidate possible (due to on unawareness to them) both state and centrally sponsored schemes and Election Manifesto should also have this component is need on regional basis.
Gender Inequality which specially more of a travelling and safety concerns should be kept in mind to focus on a Female Academician Allotment on a regional basis via a support system in local network to uplift them up and aware about the state and cultural schemes for higher education to impact maximum families as possible to induce Chain Reaction thereon.
Early marriage reforms is constantly taken by the government to understand the value of a student intellect brain to induce a chain mechanism if trained educate well in a right direction and for that has uplift the Age Ceiling to 21 for girls and same for the boys for at least. And Default results in empanelment. Not 100% effective but at least would cover the rate of child /early and helps to increase the Intellect Pool and Standard of Living thereon.
To bring Efficiency in any government is a serious issue. Maximum Governance, Minimum Government model is contemporary proposed model to be induced in the country but in the states where the participation is not good due to the lack of awareness among the citizens, results in lack of expectation from their Government and thus reduce the unproductive Policies and Manifesto for themselves results in backwardness from the rest of the society/peers. Awareness in citizen must be there to choose wisely by active awareness via celebrities/influencer/election commission which act as the direct influence from their role models for elevating their standard of living the thereon.
With the highest young demographic and proposed competency in India, upcoming Decades would be the intellect accumulation for our country and would reap benefits for more comprehensible and happy livings.
Copying things sometimes being good if the impact on the major segment of the society is positive enough rather than be so political or biased in the ideologies of the people.
Copy the Government of NCT of Delhi’s Education Model in most of the aspect would indeed be the good example for this irrespective of the political bias.
Breakdown every pointer’s bottleneck and get a solution out of it which seems plausible in both bureaucratic and operational-wise.
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Disclaimer : The above stated Case Problem and Opinion are subject to personal views and approach from a Layman’s point of view and may not stands pragmatic in real world scenario and thus may differ from person to person in their way of solving it. Enjoy the joy of writing and a stimuli of brain to it.
Deepak Sharma | BSc. Physical Sciences (DU), MA Economics (IGNOU), PGC Strategy (IIMB)
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