I believe if quality of school education develops listening and questioning skills along with language proficiency and soft skills, higher education even with mediocre institutions and teachers will give much better performance. Focusing at higher education without improving the school education quality and continuing with rote learning is not going to yield any substantial results.
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Virendra Goel
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Subject: [MTC Global] UGC Joint Secretary favours PPP for raising GER in higher education
There is a need to develop some workable models of Public Private Partnership (PPP) to increase Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in higher education without compromising on quality and excellence, Shakil Ahamed, Joint Secretary, University Grants Commission, said on Saturday.
While emerging as one of the largest higher education systems, quality has not attracted the desired attention. Industries feel most of the graduates are not employable. UGC's initiatives alone would not change the system and may not bring equality. The onus is entirely on the teaching community, Dr. Ahamed said in his Graduation Day address at Nandha College of Engineering.
The massive expansion of higher education has caused dilution of quality. The UGC's schemes of grant of autonomy, identification of colleges as Centre with Potential for Excellence and increase in fellowships and scholarships, and the academic and administrative reforms reflecting in choice-based credit system, revision of curriculum, admission procedure and conduct of examination were aimed at raising the standards of teaching and research in universities and colleges.
During the XII Plan period, the Central Government has allocated Rs. 19,800 crore for development of higher education. However, the State governments have not risen up to the occasion. In most State universities and colleges, vacant positions of teachers were not being filled up and the building and infrastructure were very poorly maintained. "As 65 per cent of the universities and 90 per cent of the colleges are under State control, it will be a wild goose chase to think of enhancing the quality of teaching and research unless the State governments join hands with the Centre in the National agenda," Dr. Ahamed said.
The Central Government's new scheme: Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan envisages equity, access and excellence through reforms in state higher education sector through use of central funds in a strategic manner. A completely new approach towards funding higher education in State universities and colleges, the RUSA is based on key principles of performance-based funding, incentivizing well-performing institutions, and decision making through clearly defined norms, which will establish and rely upon a management information system to gather the essential information from institutions. The RUSA scheme, he said, aims to provide greater autonomy to universities and colleges with a sharper focus on equity-based development and improvement in teaching-learning quality and research.
[Source: The Hindu]
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