Thread by @pearlmdsouza

To attract talented teachers, innovate and build better labs, steps will be taken to enable sourcing, external commercial borrowings and FDI to deliver higher quality education

#BudgetSession2020 #Education
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For improving employment opportunities of students in general streams, 150 higher education institutions will start apprenticeship embedded degree diploma courses by March 2021
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Urban Local bodies across country will provide fresh engineers a one year internship opportunity

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For quality education for deprived students a full fledged degree level education programme will be started by top 100 institutions in National Institutional Ranking framework
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To make India a preferred higher education destination, Indsat exam is proposed in Asian, African Countries under Study In Indian programme. It will benchmark foreign candidates receiving scholarships for studying in Indian Higher Education Centers
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National Police University and National Forensic Science University are proposed for policing science, forensic science and cyber forensics
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To counter shortage of qualified medical doctors, a proposal to attach a medical colleges to existing district hospital in PPP model. States allowing this and provide land at a concession will receive viability gap funding from the centre.
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