“Education is the door to bright future.”
Using the human power to manage and develop the nation is the task to be done to take the status to the next level. Some major changes in education field have taken place in the recent months that triggered the evaluation of youth.
This month has been very effective in education as the search engine giant, Google and online education company Udacity launched online courses in India. The two companies tied up with India’s TATA to offer online technical courses, focusing over teaching software developers to build android apps (android- OS backed by Google). The course will be of six to nine months and will be charged Rs 9,800 for it. Google instructors based in United States will give lessons to the students. India has 3.6 million developers second in world, whom Google is eying to make skilled. The company will offer 1000 scholarships and all the graduates will be invited for job fair hosted by Google in India, next year.
Even Indian institutions are also going abroad to provide them easy education. Recently, IGNOU has decided to restart its operation in 9 foreign centers. The center will start enrollment of foreign students. The step came after two years it has withdrawn the facilities from 84 countries following legal compilation. The university has stopped working earlier due to the objection from the host nation over the direct agreement with the foreign institutes. Out of 84 nations, the operation in 29 nations was continues, but fresh enrollment was withdrawn from those also in 2013.
Several efforts have been made in India to gear up the education enrollment in the country. The result is seen recently in a study that disclosed the school enrollment hike in the Indian states. The study revealed that school enrollment in Bihar has touched 93.77 percent at primary level, 87.63 % at upper primary level, 42.08 % in secondary level and 19.06 % in higher secondary level. The performance of Jharkhand and West Bengal has also improved. Kerala, Delhi, Meghalaya, Karnataka have shown good performance in enrollments. This has showed the good pace of new generation being keen in getting education.
Government is also eying at providing equal opportunities to the disabled people. Union cabinet has given red signal to setting up Indian sign language research and training centers. The approval came out during the cabinet meet chaired by PM Narendra Modi. The Center will be setup as a society and will be established under Societies Registration Act, 1860. The Center will come under the patronage of department of empowerment of persons with disabilities, ministry of social justice and empowerment. The society will have a president and a general council and an executive council. General council will have 12 members. The Center will focus on providing equal opportunities to the hearing impaired persons to fully participate in all areas.
Well, the fact lies on how effectively, we utilize our resources to make the conditions more favorable for students to get education. The steps are going in a right way but their expected results will be seen only after the proper focus and unbiased approach.
