Fellow members may find the following article, that appeared in EDU Newsletter, interesting.
Regards
Virendra Goel
Achieving Institutional Excellence
29 September 2012
A peek into EDU survey result reveals some startling factors that the community of leaders in higher education consider important to deliver excellence in the field. Read on to find out what they think...
Indian higher education today boasts of more than 611 universities with over 1.5 crore students. This growth story in numbers has not been matched by quality despite efforts of the government and the private sector. Lack of infrastructure, funds, quality faculty and sometimes sheer indifference come in the way of pursuing and delivering excellence. However, these odds have not stopped pockets of excellence and stories of innovation from flourishing within our country. There are also lesson to be drawn from other countries with similar challenges and sectors besides education. It’s time to share the strategies and extend this experience for the collective growth of the sector. The odds unfortunately are not going to change overnight. Our strategies however can.
Through the first Vice Chancellors’ retreat, EDU had taken the onus to get the decision-makers in this sector on a common platform to identify effective strategies to make the change. This year we hope to take another step in that direction by talking about how to overcome the hurdles that may come up in implementing our vision.
By the time this issue reaches you around 50 leaders in higher education would have met for EDU’s VCs’ retreat from August 31 to September 2 to talk about and work out a plan to overcome these hurdles. To form the basis of our discussions at the Retreat, EDU had conducted a survey on what constitutes Achieving Institutional Excellence. We got an overwhelming 400 responses from our readers. We bring to you a preview of the findings in this issue. In the next issue we will be covering the findings in detail along with the deliberations at the Vice Chancellors’ Retreat.
SOME INSIGHTS FROM THE SURVEY
- Infrastructure and technology was rated second most important factors by President/CEOs while overall it stood fourth
- Group 2 i.e. VCs, Directors rated ‘Quality of Faculty’ the most important factor followed by ‘Curriculum and Pedagogy’ but professors rated both of them as equally important
- Across geographical regions, ‘Quality of Faculty’ was considered the most important factor except for West region where Curriculum and Pedagogy was rated slightly higher than Quality of Faculty in terms of importance
- Alumni Relations is around the bottom but was voted the third most important factor by institutes offering both engineering and management courses
- Government Policy and Regulation came out the least important overall and also across groups, regions and various types of educational institutes
- Higher education institutions that are models of excellence and worth emulating: IITs and IIMs are the favourites. Among non-government institutions, ISB Hyderabad and BITS Pilani, are the most mentioned ones.
Indian higher education today boasts of more than 611 universities with over 1.5 crore students. This growth story in numbers has not been matched by quality despite efforts of the government and the private sector. Lack of infrastructure, funds, quality faculty and sometimes sheer indifference come in the way of pursuing and delivering excellence. However, these odds have not stopped pockets of excellence and stories of innovation from flourishing within our country. There are also lesson to be drawn from other countries with similar challenges and sectors besides education. It’s time to share the strategies and extend this experience for the collective growth of the sector. The odds unfortunately are not going to change overnight. Our strategies however can.
Through the first Vice Chancellors’ retreat, EDU had taken the onus to get the decision-makers in this sector on a common platform to identify effective strategies to make the change. This year we hope to take another step in that direction by talking about how to overcome the hurdles that may come up in implementing our vision.
By the time this issue reaches you around 50 leaders in higher education would have met for EDU’s VCs’ retreat from August 31 to September 2 to talk about and work out a plan to overcome these hurdles. To form the basis of our discussions at the Retreat, EDU had conducted a survey on what constitutes Achieving Institutional Excellence. We got an overwhelming 400 responses from our readers. We bring to you a preview of the findings in this issue. In the next issue we will be covering the findings in detail along with the deliberations at the Vice Chancellors’ Retreat.
SOME INSIGHTS FROM THE SURVEY
1. Infrastructure and technology was rated second most important factors by President/CEOs while overall it stood fourth
2. Group 2 i.e. VCs, Directors rated ‘Quality of Faculty’ the most important factor followed by ‘Curriculum and Pedagogy’ but professors rated both of them as equally important
3. Across geographical regions, ‘Quality of Faculty’ was considered the most important factor except for West region where Curriculum and Pedagogy was rated slightly higher than Quality of Faculty in terms of importance
4. Alumni Relations is around the bottom but was voted the third most important factor by institutes offering both engineering and management courses
5. Government Policy and Regulation came out the least important overall and also across groups, regions and various types of educational institutes
6. Higher education institutions that are models of excellence and worth emulating: IITs and IIMs are the favourites. Among non-government institutions, ISB Hyderabad and BITS Pilani, are the most mentioned ones.
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