What are the strategies planned for the expansion of access to education i Enhance access to vulnera...........

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The Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Human Resource Development has come out with an five-year vision plan named Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Programme (EQUIP). The ten Expert Groups drawn from senior academicians, administrators and industrialists, have suggested more than 50 initiatives that would transform the higher education sector completely. EQUIP, an overarching program has been conceived by the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development which sets out to deliver further on the principles of access, inclusion, quality, excellence, and enhancing employability in higher education. EQUIP aims at ushering transformations in India’s higher education system by implementing strategic interventions in the sector over five years (2019 – 2024). Ten expert groups have been constituted to design and formulate an Action Plan on Higher Education titled Education Quality Upgradation and Inclusion Program (EQUIP) encompassing ten critical areas of Indian higher education.

What are the strategies planned for the expansion of access to education ?

i Enhance access to vulnerable communities (SC/ST)

ii Expand access to cater to geographically underserved areas

iii Enhance overall higher education

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i. and ii only

ii only

iii only

All of the above

none of these

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Explanation:

Enhance access to vulnerable communities (SC/ST)

Setting up of Samras Hostels in underserved areas: 8000 samras hostels (in BuildOwn-Operate model) would be set up to accommodate 16 lakh students from vulnerable socio-economic backgrounds with no access to higher education institutions in their vicinity to continue education. Scholarships for 16 lakh students to meet hostel expense will act as a support mechanism for students.

Fee reimbursements for SC/ST students: 50% fee waivers for ST/SC students pursuing education through ODL and disbursal of balance in the event of successful completion of the respective academic year.

Finishing School/Bridge Course to impart employable skills: Model degree colleges and new colleges set up in backward areas to have the provision of a bridge course (on the same pattern as finishing school) in the first year of the degree to impart mathematical and soft skills to them to enhance employability.

Expand access to cater to geographically underserved areas

Enhance learnability and employability through vocationalisation: Upgrade 500- degree colleges in backward blocks to vocational degree college (VCD) by integrating a vocational stream to start B.Voc programs

Broadening opportunities for access to higher education through MOOCs: Develop quality blended MOOCs to overcome the challenge of faculty deficit in institutions and to facilitate blended learning in vocational courses (with 3000 additional blended MOOCs).

Enhance overall access to higher education:

Offer incentives to students for pursuing higher education: Students need to be incentivized with opportunities to earn while studying for higher education to appeal to them. Local colleges can act as extension centres for specialized technical/vocational services, and the students could get avenues to earn in these centres

Offer courses in a dual mode in universities: Universities may be encouraged to offer courses in dual modes and the examinations held for both Distance and Regular modes should be conducted as the same.