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A new Central University for Himalayan Technology will soon be set up in Uttarakhand, said Union Minister for Human Resource Development, Smriti Z Irani, on Tuesday.
The institute will also have international faculty, according to a statement from the ministry.
Apart from this, the ministry plans to leverage technology for empowering students and teachers. For this, it proposes to launch a large number of Massive Open Online Courses and also establish a National e-Library by the end of this year, Irani said.
The Minister added that there should be a national framework for ranking of universities and colleges suited to the local conditions, circumstances and requirements.
Irani has also asked States to monitor the mushrooming universities and colleges with no standard facilities or full faculty.
The fragmentation between primary, secondary and higher education should be removed and skill development should start at the school level while continuing up to the higher levels, she added.
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