Volume : V, Issue : IX, September - 2015

QUALITY EDUCATION, OSLO MANDATE AND UNIQUE STORY OF KISS

Prof. Monalisa Bal

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The Oslo Summit (2015) has taken off from the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by inking the importance of quality education and lifelong learning underscoring the importance of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). India’s tryst with education had its pinnacle with the Right to Education (RTE) Act 2009. It has ensured near universal access in primary education. Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) in higher education also shows a significant upward trajectory; thanks to the private sector initiative during the last decade. This paper ings out India’s score card in achieving the MDG goals and ings out the trends like increasing inclination for private schooling, challenges confronting learning outcomes, poor public investment in education & the need for higher allocation to R&D & innovation in higher education. It highlights the unique experiment in Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) Odisha in inging synergy between inclusivity and quality through its impact in reduction of Gender Inequality Index (GII), improvement in life skilling, mitigation of hunger and better employability. The paper strongly argues for treating education as a ‘merit good’ with strong state handholding; abdication of the sweeping tendency to decry private sector initiative as crass commercialization and replicating the self sustaining funding model of KISS as the way forward to achieve the Oslo mandate.

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Prof. Monalisa Bal Quality Education, Oslo Mandate and Unique Story of Kiss Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.5, Issue : 9 September 2015

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