(11) Secondary Education: (a) Education opportunity at the secondary (and higher) level is a major instrument of social change and transformation, Facilities for Secondary education should accordingly be extended expeditiously to areas and classes, which have been denied these in the past.
(b) There is need to increase facilities for technical and vocational education at this stage. Provision of facilities for secondary and vocational education should conform broadly to requirements of the developing economy and real employment opportunities. Such linkage is necessary to make technical and vocational education at the secondary stage effectively terminal. Facilities for technical and vocational education should be suitably diversified to cover a large number of fields such as agriculture, industry, trade and commerce, medicine and public health, home management, arts,and crafts, secretarial training, etc.
(12) University Education: (a) the number of whole-time students to be admitted to a college or university department should be determined with reference to the laboratory, library and other facilities and to the strength of the staff.
(b) Considerable care is needed in establishing new universities. These should be started only after an adequate provision of funds has been made for the purpose and due care has been taken to ensure proper standards.
(c) Special attention should be given to the organisation of postgraduate courses and to the improvement of standards of training and research at this level.
(a) Centres of advanced study should be strengthened and a small number of ‘cluster of centres’ aiming at the highest possible standards in research and training should be established.
(e) There is need to give increased support to research in universities generally. The institutions for research should, as far as possible, function within the fold of universities or in intimate association with them.
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