16-Jan-2018: 65th Central Advisory Board of Education held on 16th January, 2018
The second day of the 65th Meeting of the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) was held under the Chairmanship of Union Human Resource Development Minister Shri Prakash Javadekar.
The following resolutions were adopted:-
- CABE will make all out efforts to increase GER by opening new universities, colleges, using infrastructure more productively and using ODL and online education
- CABE will take positive action to plug regional disparities and will prepare perspective plan.
- CABE commits to take necessary steps to ensure that no deserving student should be denied opportunity to have higher education for lack of means.
- CABE appreciates initiatives in giving more thrust on improving quality, accord more autonomy to quality institutes, and introducing digital initiatives to improve governance, enhance quality and choice.
- CABE will strive more for bringing accountability of all stakeholders.
- CABE has decided to participate wholeheartedly in innovative programmes like Unnat Bharat, Swachh Bharat, Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat, Smart and Green Campus.
- CABE rededicates to ensure Equity, Accessibility, Quality , accountability and affordability.
Brief presentations covering the Status of Higher Education, improving the Quality and Accountability in Higher Education, Digital Initiatives, Skill Development for New India – 2022 were made. The presentations also highlighted some of the recent digital initiatives and reforms agenda covering academic, accreditation and governance reforms, progress in implementation of various schemes aimed at improving quality, ensuring equity, strengthening State institutions through Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan(RUSA), improving teacher quality through Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching(PMMMNMTT) among others which are currently underway in the higher education sector. Presentations on Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat, and Unnat Bharat Abhiyan were also made.
It was generally recognised that States have been doing excellent work by setting up cluster colleges, implementing academic and governance reforms, which were appreciated. In particular, some steps, such as opening residential colleges, setting up girls colleges, polytechnics, skill academies and centres, student mentorship programmes, smart classrooms, promoting technology hubs for startups, provision of scholarships, ERUDITE programme for brain gain, industry academia cells, etc.
The participants deliberated on several aspects of education and gained from the best practices made to improve educational levels of the students. The Education Ministers of the States, CABE Members actively participated in the discussions.