National Digital University will pave way for scaling up GER in higher education: Education Minister

"A thrust on online education, collaboration amongst existing institutions and start of new ones are the other ways to attain the intended target of 50 percent GER," the Minister said.

National Digital University will pave way for scaling up GER in higher education: Education Minister

Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan has said that the digital University will pave way for scapling up Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education significantly from the present level of 27 percent.

"A thrust on online education, collaboration amongst existing institutions and start of new ones are the other ways to attain the intended target of 50 percent GER," the Minister said.

Pradhan said this while inaugurating the second floor of LOGOS Lecture Hall Complex and Annexe buildings at the National Institute of Technology - Tiruchi, advocated collaboration amongst top-level higher education institutions such as NITs, IITs and IIMs for innovations and research activities benefitting the people.

On the impending entry of select foreign universities to India, the Minister said the initiative was meant to provide a cost-effective alternative for a section of learners who pursue higher education in foreign universities without any certainty of the standing of the institutions.

"The University Grants Commission has, while specifying guidelines for four-year UG programme in science and humanities, retained the option for higher educational institutions to follow the three-year UG pattern, factoring in the duration required to transition to the new system in accordance with National Education Policy 2020," the Minister said.

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