1. Orissa
must create an infrastructure for Remote education. The three
established Universities namely Sambalpur, Utkal and Berhampu should be
funded decently and goaled to have a remote site in equal number of
districts each, where there are no universities.
These
campuses will be located in each District. They would use master
teachers, 5 of whom will be identified by each of the 4 existing
Universities (Ravenshaw, Utkal, Berhampore, and Sambalpur
Universities) and autonomous Colleges and courses broad cast to the
substandard colleges that have come up, to upgrade the standard and
make them uniform. Additionally, they should make provision for the
students to meet regularly say for six days every two months to develop
peer interaction, a part of the study. This will upgrade the standard
and access in no time. Each of the blocks can have a remote center if
Broadband is made to reach all Block HQ in next 3 years. 2. De-funding
of old Universities, while starting brand new ones, is a very
reprehensible pattern, that is developing all over India. Quality
higher education can't be had this way. There should be a few centers
of excellence rather than a large number of tutoring shops, devoid of
creative & critical thinking.
3. Tuition
should be totally banned and the rules enforced, strictly. Otherwise
whole education infrastructure will collapse due creation of Zombies.
Quota can be managed but "Kota" will irreparably damage the system.
4. Private
and Public Sectors must be persued/asked by Govt. of Odisha with
setting up Higher education Institutes and Medical Colleges in their
area of opeartion as their Social responsibilities.
For example , SAIL , RSP can be asked to setup
an Engg. College and a Medical College in and around Rourkela.
Similarly Vedanta can be asked to setup a University and Higher
education Institutes in Kalahandi. Examples follows for other
Corporates and Public Sectors which are using Odisha's Natural and
mineral Resources. Prashant K Sahoo
CE, Odia Samaja
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