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C. E. Beebe, lecturer and researcher in education, will go to New Delhi next month to help redesign India's education system.
For seven weeks, Beebe will serve as special consultant to India's Education Commission. The former chairman of UNESCO's executive board is the third member of the Ed School Faculty to serve on the commission.
The commission is India's sixth, beginning with the Wood's Education Dispatch of 1854. It is the first, however, to consider all aspects of the national system. Beebe said a major problem is the power distribution between city, state, and national educational agencies.
Since winning independence, India has greatly expanded its education system. It included 25 million students in 1950 compared to 60 million today. But because of the population growth, only 40 per cent of these are in school. India also faces the paradox of a large "educated unemployed." Indian education has...
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