PDFBear And The Indian Higher Education Directorate Teams Up

Revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela once said, “Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to change the world.” He was not wrong. In today’s world, you need to have skills to survive, and where do you learn those skills? In school!

No one knows that better than the Directorate Of Higher Education, an attached office of the Higher Education Archives & Libraries Department in India. The organization brings to life Mandela’s famous quote through the execution of various programs aimed at providing students in India with a quality education that meets the standards of requirement of the 21st century.

As part of this initiative, the Directorate Of Higher Education established a partnership with website PDFBear, a popular PDF tool suite that allows you to edit, convert, combine, and merge PDF - among other things. This is an important advancement, indeed. And to show just how important it is, let’s talk about how education, technology, and digital tools interconnect with one another as a landing board.

The Impact Of Modern Technology In Education

As we all know, technology isn’t going away anytime soon. In fact, more and more people are getting a hold of technology and using technology in their day-to-day lives. And with the world becoming increasingly more digital by the day, more and more educators are discovering and realizing that online tools, like PDF tools, can greatly help and enhance the learning process and learning experience of students. When students use tools of this nature, they learn valuable tech skills and eventually become more tech-savvy and tech-confident.

PDF Conversion Tools To Enhance Learning

Merge PDF

What type of tools are these? A great example would be PDF conversion tools. There are many different ways to use PDF conversion tools in the classroom. Take PDFBear’s Merge PDF tool, for instance. It’s a PDF merger- it combines and merges multiple PDF files into a single file.

If you are a student, and you’ve got multiple PDF files you need to send to a classmate for a school report, PDFBear’s merge PDF service provides you with an easy way to combine PDF, and organize all the PDF into one, great big PDF. Plus, It’s an overall better way to share and send documents than by sending them through numerous, long email attachments, which, let’s face it, can take forever to attach!

Another useful, simple way PDF’s Merge PDF tool helps refine the learning experience for students is when students are asked to report for class. A common problem among students is how to merge PDF files to help them present a subject to the rest of their class.

If you will be reporting in a group, or with a partner, holding duplicate files containing the same content will be confusing for both the speaker and the audience. That won’t happen to you if you’ve got PDFBear’s Merge PDF tool. Anyone using the tool can merge PDFs in four easy steps! We show you how below:

Follow the steps for a quick guide on merging PDF:

1. Select the PDF files you want to merge, and place them in the conversion area. You may also drag-and-drop your content into the PDF’s Merge PDF upload box.
2. Once it's uploaded, arrange and combine your PDFs any way you like. If you are a PDFBear PRO Membership member, you can select, arrange and combine individual pages in your PDF file any way you like.
3. When you’re done, click on the Merge PDF button.
4. Download your newly merged or newly combined PDF file to your device. You may also upload it to your Google Drive or Dropbox account.

PDF To PPT

Other ways students use PDFBear’s plethora of PDF tools is in the creation of presentations. If you need to get information from a PDF file for a report in Powerpoint format, all you need to do is visit PDFBear, upload your file in the PDF to PPT tool, and your PDF file will turn into editable Powerpoint slideshows.. in just a few minutes!

In school, we all make mistakes from time to time. No one is exempt from that. It’s how you react and respond to mistakes that will show your true character. That’s great... but what if you don’t have enough time to fix your mistakes?

PDF To Excel

For instance, you’re in an accounting class and you’re about to turn in a major report in PDF format. Right before you submit your paper, you realize you made a huge miscalculation in one table. You can’t edit your PDF file so you go to PDFBear and upload your PDF File in the PDF to Excel tool. You download your new spreadsheet, fix the miscalculation, upload your file in the PDFBear’s Excel to PDF tool and simultaneously breathe a huge sigh of relief! Crisis averted, thanks to PDFBear!

The State Of Education In India

Out of all developed and developing nations in the world, India is one of the countries definitely in need of what PDFBear and other digital companies can provide. In spite of the efforts of the Directorate Of Higher Education, and a handful of education NGOs driving the change in the education sector, the country, unfortunately, still has a long way to go.

Take a look at these stats and try not to be moved -the Republic of India is the world’s second most populous nation, with a population of more than 1.2 billion people. It is also the world’s seventh largest country in terms of land area, beating Kenya, Saudi Arabia, and Mexico.

Out of 1.2 billion people, 21.2 percent of India’s population live under the poverty line. High poverty rates lead to high dropout rates for students. The priority and primary concern of the students is to help families survive. They see education as a luxury, something only the rich can afford in terms of time and money.

Furthermore, educational attainment is present-day India is not directly related to employment prospects. In fact, in 2017, a staggering 60 percent of engineering graduates in India did not have jobs, and between the years of 2013 and 2016, India’s economy only generated an estimated 150,000 to 400,000 jobs per year. Out of nearly a billion people, that is a small percentage.

Quality In School Education

The stats are alarming, but they are not set in stone. Change must be done. One way to improve the situation is to give everyone access to a good quality education, most especially in remote and rural areas. How does one obtain a good quality education? Once you have books and pens and paper, does it automatically mean you are on your way?

To receive an education of good quality, three things must be in place - each and every school needs to have quality teachers, safe and supportive learning environments, and high quality online tools. When digital tools are used in an educational manner, they help students develop new knowledge. How will the students be able to apply what they’ve learned if they don’t have the resources to put them into practice?

PDFBear PRO Membership

PDFBear Free Membership Upgrade

The people behind PDFBear are aware of what is happening in India, and are more than willing to do their part in helping every child achieve the highest possible standard in all aspects of their education. As we are all aware, PDFBear is a free online conversion tool for all PDF files. The existence of a service like this is a huge help for students.

In fact, without it, the only way to work on your files is through a computer software program like Adobe. Adobe memberships cost as much as $14.99 a month. That is a huge amount for average income households. Most average income households earn 10,000 rupees or only 135.80 dollars a month. Subtract food, electricity, water, and all the other monthly bills and you get nothing.

PDFBear PRO Membership Perks

When you are a PDFBear PRO member, you gain access to a whole host of exclusive privileges, like unlimited storage for all supported file formats. Other perks include an unlimited amount of file conversion tasks and OCR, or Optical Character Recognition Tasks. Convert as many files as you want, per day, for FREE! PDFBear PRO members are also allowed to upload up to 20 files per file conversion process, a really neat perk if you need to convert numerous documents for a group presentation or group report.

Believe us when we say, there is no better time than the present to invite as many friends as you can to sign up for PDFBear- because PDFBear will extend your membership for one more month, for every successful invite! Get one friend to sign up, you get one more month. Recruit two friends, you’re extended for two months, and so on and so forth!

Conclusion

As the second most populated country in the world, the imbalance India currently faces is certainly becoming a cause for considerable concern. Too many people in a country with not enough resources and career opportunities? It seems like too great a problem to solve. But if we find the root cause of the problem, perhaps we can take action to prevent it from happening again in the future.

The root cause of it all is- as you might have guessed- a lack of adequate education in the country. If you don't have a degree, it will be hard for you to get a job. You will be poor and you will remain poor. That said, kudos to PDFBear for doing its part to further education in one of the biggest countries in the world. May this initiative pave the way for other companies to follow suit. Let’s all work together to make the world a better place - one action at a time.