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Universities should never be a) ------- into mechanical organizations for b) ------- and distributing knowledge. Through them the people should c) -------- their intellectual hospitality, their wealth of mind to others, and d) ------- their proud right in return to e) -------gifts from the rest of the world. But in the whole length and breadth of India there is not a single University f) ------- in the modern item where a foreign or an Indian student can properly be g) -------- with the best products of the Indian mind. For that we have to h) ------ the sea, and i) -------- at the doors of France and Germany. Educational institutions in our country are India’s alms-bowl of knowledge; they lower our intellectual self-respect; they j) ------- us to make a foolish display of decorations composed of borrowed feathers…………………………….

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Accessibility to higher education a) ------- that students get the opportunity to b) ---------- university education and sufficient support from educational institutions. C) -------- enrolment at the secondary and higher secondary level d) --------- pressure on higher educational institutions. But due to e) --------- capacity, only a small number of students may be f) ------ in universities. Thus, each year a large number of students are g) ------- access to higher education. Also, due to h) ---------- and increase in educational expenses, students of the lower middle class do not get easy i) --------- to higher education. Moreover, those who get places in the universities have limited access to j) -------- all kinds of educational facilities.

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Many educators a) --------- that one of the functions of education today should be to b) -------- 21^st century skills that are c) -------- for participation, achievement and d) --------- in the global economy. Beyond the e) -------- of reading, mathematics and science, it is now necessary to f) -------- other essential skills that are in g) -------- in the 21^st Century. All people, not just an h) -------- few, need 21^st century skills that will i) ------- their ability, employability and j) -------- for citizenship.