Warwick University Announces New Project in Haryana to Get More Indian Children Into Higher Education

The University of Warwickhas receivedfinances worth GBP 500,000 from the Fair Chance Foundation to aid more Indian students from Haryana to explore higher education and enjoy benefits from the new Widening Access to Higher Education in India: Institutional Approaches project. The project will initiate in April 2022.

The Warwick Haryana project is directed against the social and gender taboos that prevent rural communities from making progress in their educational career. It aims to increase the capacity of the educational institutes primarily in the rural areas and make them college knowledge hubs.

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Nidhi Sabharwal from the Centre Policy Research in Higher Education who leads the works of the project in India is looking at this project to cut through the cyclical socio-economic disadvantage and reduce the inequalities prevalent in the wider society.

The prior research work on the project named A Fair Chance for Education: Gendered Pathways to Educational Success in Haryana shows that the youth in rural areas have little or no access to higher educational institutes. Those who can make a choice do in on the basis of word of mouth without a concrete understanding of the course and subject. The project has been pitched to help the lakhs of women and youths from disadvantaged zones of locality and life in general when it was started 5 years back.

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The current project will guide policymakers to provide an equitable chance to Indian women and beyond. Emily Henderson of the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick has claimed that they will be able to help the students from rural and semi-urban areas to make the enlightened choices of their future courses.

Source: The PIENews