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Sibal
calls for paradigm shift in education
Thursday November 11, 2010 07:55:45 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
Calling for a paradigm shift in the education sector, Human
Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal Thursday said a
framework was needed for investment for expansion of higher
education.
"We need a policy framework to invest in education if we have to
increase our gross enrolment ratio to 30 percent by 2020," Sibal
said at a function to mark National Education Day here.
The HRD minister also stressed on the need for change in the
pattern of education.
"Education should be child-centric, not exam-centric," he said.
Earlier in the day, speaking at a higher education summit
organised by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and
Industry (FICCI), Sibal said the private sector needs to create
education infrastructure to meet the target of 30 percent gross
enrolment ratio by 2020.
He also called for global partnership in the field of education
and stressed on a greater role for the private sector.
"We will need 800 new universities and 40,000 new colleges to meet
the aim of 30 percent GER (gross enrolment ratio) by 2020.
Government alone cannot meet this aim," Sibal said.
He, however, added that private institutes need to focus on
accountability issues.
Calling for global partnership, he said while India had job
opportunities, it lacked trained human resource. "Students go
abroad but that is a miniscule (number), capital must move to the
place where human resource is," he said, inviting foreign
universities to India.
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