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Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday called for re-engineering the entire education system with private sector cross subsidising education for the poor and needy.
Mr Naidu was addressing the 95th annual convocation of the University of Delhi here where he expressed the opinion that for the country to recapture the past glory, the private sector too would have to play a vital role in meeting the demands of higher education and find ways to cross subsidise education for the poor and needy.
He said this initiative was the need of the hour to restore India’s ancient glory as a prime destination of quality higher education and its universities as international centres of excellence.
Warning that the ‘one size fits all’ approach followed so far would not take the country anywhere, he told the graduating students of the University of Delhi that that young people should be given the space to think freely.
‘We cannot keep forcing the same syllabus on a student who excels in Science and a student who is a savant in music,’ he said. If half the time of a student is spent in classrooms then the rest should be spent in the community, in the playground, in nature and in open air to ensure balanced education, he added, an official statement here said.
Mr Naidu favoured a change in the curriculum, teaching methodology, examination system, technology tools used and research pursued in educational institutions.
‘You have been lucky enough to gain education from this great university. But on this day, spare a thought to those young people who did not get such an opportunity in spite of deserving it. It is up to us to take the benefits of education and the opportunities it opens up to the last mile.’
Present on the occasion were Dr Satya Pal Singh, Minister of State, Human Resource Development, Professor Yogesh Tyagi, Vice Chancellor, Prof J P Khurana, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Prof Tarun Kumar Das, Registrar.
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