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Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU): Bridging Academic Divide in India

  • Unique Paper ID: 168224
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 5
  • PageNo: 1351-1354
  • Abstract:
  • As India enters Amrit Kal of 75 years of independence; it is looking towards attaining status of ‘knowledge society’ by brining basic structural reforms in the education sector through New Education Policy-2020. Moreover NEP 2020 policy proposes the revision and revamping of all aspects of the education structure including its regulation and governance to create a new system that address the bottlenecks by way of bringing desired institutional changes in the existing educational system to the doorsteps of its entire population within next 25 years with hope to develop sound and robust educational system. But the expected outcomes of NEP 2020 remain a big challenge and goal of increasing GER to 50% by the end of half of 21st century isn’t going to be an easy task. However with positive note the GOI committed to remove bottlenecks and prioritize the needs to revamp knowledge with tradition, through which it visualize to become soft power and knowledge society by 2047. The education opportunities for rural enmass, which accounts for nearly 70% of the entire population lives in rural India and they have access to education is less than half of their urban counterparts. This noticeable rural-urban divide can reduce only by IGNOU, which is prospective contributor to accommodate a large number of students through ODL mode with its Pan-India network. The issue of the “Academic divide” is not new to India. Indeed the existing gap between the “haves” and the “have nots”, has been identified as a potential contributor to the widening knowledge gap within India. Ever since independence, the Government of India has implemented various educational policies to bring parity between urban and rural structures to create equal opportunities, but over the years policies have failed to address basic issues including providing universal and comprehensive education, confronted at rural areas and expected results became distant dreams. Eventually, the unbalanced distributions of the higher educational institutions have also played a critical role. Indeed, NEP is an attempt to bring institutional and structural changes in the existing educational system in India. Bringing desired changes in the current education system is herculean task. Despite many positive aspects of NEP, the advancement in educational pedagogy will certainly pose big challenge. Therefore an essential part of the challenge is of narrowing access to rural areas and focuses more on urban centers. This gap is spreading which lead to emergence of urban monopolies in the education sector. The question is whether IGNOU benefits can be sufficiently diffused to have a major impact on rural divide. This brief paper summarizes some of the more challenging aspects of the “Academic divide” in terms of its impact on bridging the urban-rural gap. It outlines the problem of educational divide on what scale and identifies obstacles that causing knowledge divide and how we can use IGNOU setup in reducing gap between haves and have-nots in India will be dealt at length.
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  • ISSN: 2349-6002
  • Volume: 11
  • Issue: 5
  • PageNo: 1351-1354

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU): Bridging Academic Divide in India

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