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I believe the answer is D

The educators do not view the higher education-as a whole- as outdated. They view a subset of higher education, say engineering, as outdated.
C has the meaning issue. D:- such education clearly states the meaning.

E:- "would or could" - redundancy.

A & B- "they"- wrong pronoun
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A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

If we Remove the prepositional phrases and modifiers, the sentence becomes :

A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

Now evaluating the answer choices :

A. that they will, or could, - They seems inappropriate. Also , no parallelism before and after 'or'

B. that they would, or could, - Same as above

C. it will be or could - The Best answer

D. believe that such education will be or can - Unnecessarily wordy . Usage of 'can ' seems incorrect

E. believe that such education would or could- Same as above
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A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

A. that they will, or could,

B. that they would, or could,

C. it will be or could

D. believe that such education will be or can

E. believe that such education would or could

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"believe that..." adequately describes who the clause is referring to (educators).
A, B, and C have ambiguous pronouns.

Would and could are past tenses of "can" and "will."
E is incorrect in this sense.
Di is the right answer.
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Here are the 2 parallel elements correctly placed in D)

A large number of educators surveyed
* view that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present
but
* believe that such education will be or can be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

In A, B, the "they" refers incorrectly to "Subjects". The second half of the sentence needs a pronoun to refer to "higher education". Therefore, c, d and e remain.
"Such education" is preferable to "it", because when a noun is replaced by a pronoun, usually the sentence with the noun is correct. Also, would or could is incorrect which are usually used to refer to a future action from a standpoint of a past reference. Here the use verb "view" and "believe" in present tense justifies the use of "will be"/"can be" in D).
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Hi, my take is D for the following reasons:

A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

but is introducing contrast surveyed view higher education is outdated.... and it can be made contemporary in near future .... make the two clauses parallel.
A. that they will, or could,
Incorrect. "They" is used wrongly here , incorrectly pointing to educators instead it should point to education.

B. that they would, or could,
Incorrect. Same mistake here.

C. it will be or could
Incorrect. will be and could not parallel also but makes two clauses parallel both must begin with that ...

D. believe that such education will be or can
Correct. Parallelism is correct here with the use of "view that" and "believe that". Since the sentence makes prediction and believe/view conveys the simple present tense, usage of will and can is correct here.

E. believe that such education would or could
Incorrect. Parallelism is correct here with the use of "view that" and "believe that". Since the sentence makes prediction and believe/view conveys the simple present tense, usage of would and could is used for past elements also, it conveys uncertainty . whereas the main sentence uses Can to denote the certainty.

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A large number of educators surveyed view,
that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but
that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

A. that they will, or could,

B. that they would, or could,

C. it will be or could – Correct Answer. The pronoun it correctly refers to the subject “higher education” since both are at the subject location in the comparison. The parallelism is correct with “will be or could be” both serving as the verb for the subject IT ( higher education)

D. believe that such education will be or can

E. believe that such education would or could
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(A) that they will, or could,
Incorrect. Antecedent of "they" cannot be "a number of educators" Also the phrase "in the near future" requires verb to be in future - "can"
(B) that they would, or could,
Incorrect. Antecedent of "they" cannot be "a number of educators" Also the phrase "in the near future" requires verb to be in future - "will" & “can”</p>
(C) it will be or could
Incorrect. phrase "that higher education.." is not parallel to "it will be.." Also the phrase "in the near future" requires verb to be in future - “can”</p>
(D) believe that such education will be or can
Correct. phrase "that higher education.." is parallel to "that such education..”</p>
(E) believe that such education would or could
Incorrect. the phrase "in the near future" requires verb to be in future - "will" & “can”</p></ex>
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A large number of educators surveyed view that higher education especially in technology subjects as Electronics and Civil Engineering is outdated at present but that they will or could be made appropriately contemporary in the near future.

A. that they will, or could,

B. that they would, or could,

C. it will be or could

D. believe that such education will be or can

E. believe that such education would or could

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