<h1>Education funding expands employability measures, apprenticeship-embedded degrees, online access by ranked institutions, and international student benchmarking.</h1> The Budget earmarks a major education allocation and dedicated skill development funding to enhance employability and access, mandates apprenticeship embedded degree/diploma courses and internships, allows degree level online programmes only from institutions ranked in the top 100 of the NIRF, encourages External Commercial Borrowings and FDI for education infrastructure, proposes an Ind SAT for international scholarships, and provides PPP, viability gap funding, and bridge course measures for medical and healthcare training alongside proposals for National Police and Forensic Science Universities.