Education Reforms in India to meet Education global standards
With the Covid-19 pandemic boosting digitalisation in learning and advancing it by at least a decade, the past two years have been significant for the education sector. The abrupt transition to digital learning caused the edtech sector to expand by 65% and provide about 1,25,000 new job opportunities.
On the one hand, technologies like game-based learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) took centre stage and helped personalise, improve, and increase learner engagement, and on the other, many necessary policy reforms like allowing universities to conduct 40% of their courses online, enhancing degree apprenticeships (by allowing all universities to start programmes), allowing 35 universities to launch online programmes, introducing the Academic Bank of Credit, etc., were implemented.
In its budget for 2022–2023, the Indian government announced the creation of a digital university to give students all throughout the nation access to a top-notch, universal education with individualized instruction delivered right to their homes in a variety of Indian languages and ICT forms. The information was given by the Minister of State for Education, Dr. Subhas Sarkar.
Regulations for higher education institutions to offer full-fledged online and open distance learning programmes have been made public by the University Grants Commission (HEIs). These rules cover things like eligibility requirements, the approval process for online programme providers, and HEI maintenance of infrastructure, academic, and other quality standards.
