Education In India
India has been a major seat of learning for thousands of years, dating back to ancient seats of learning like Nalanda. In modern times, Indian educational institutions such as the (IITs, IISc, IIMs, NITs,AIIMS, ISI, BITS and ISB) are well known worldwide. India, being a developing nation, struggles with challenges in its primary education and strives to reach 100% literacy. Universal Compulsory Primary Education, with its challenges of keeping poor children in school and maintaining quality of education in rural areas, has been difficult to achieve (Kerala is an Indian state to reach this goal so far). All levels of education in India, from primary to higher education, are overseen by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (Department of Higher Education (India) and Department of School Education and Literacy), and heavily subsidized by the Indian government, though there is a move to make higher education partially self-financing. The Indian Government is considering to allow 100% foreign direct investment in Higher Education.[1]
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• 1 Structure
o 1.1 Pre-primary Education
o 1.2 Elementary Education
o 1.3 Non-graduation market
o 1.4 Higher Education
� 1.4.1 Accreditation
o 1.5 Graduation market
• 2 History
o 2.1 Up to the 17th century
o 2.2 Education under British Rule
o 2.3 After Independence
o 2.4 Education Commission
o 2.5 After 1976
o 2.6 Recent developments
• 3 Outdoor Education in India
• 4 Expenditure on Education in India
• 5 Initiatives
o 5.1 Non-Formal Education
o 5.2 Bal Bhavans
o 5.3 Distance education
• 6 Education for special sections of society
o 6.1 Women
o 6.2 SC/STs and OBCs
o 6.3 Post Graduate Classes at Correctional Homes
• 7 Contemporary education issues
• 8 Chronology of main events ...
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