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‘Foreign Varsities will Enable Healthy Competition among Institutions’

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Manipal : ‘Foreign varsities will enable healthy competition among Institutions’
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Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi

Manipal, Apr 4 (DHNS): The Union Ministry for Human Resources has chalked out plans to increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in the country to atleast 15 per cent by the end of the 11th 5-year plan period and atleast 30 per cent by 2020, informed Union Minister of State for Human Resource D Purandeshwari. 

This plan has been formed in view of low GER of 12.4 per cent in the higher education, which has become a major disparity between the developing and developed nations.

Speaking to the media persons here on the eve of the 24th convocation ceremony of T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI), she said that the GER at international level is 23 per cent. In India, there is an urgent need for a critical mass of people to go into university system, in order to become significant creators of wealth, she added.





























 

Compulsory education

Considering education as a national priority, free and compulsory education will be provided to children of the age group 6 to 14 years from April 1 onwards. The implementation of this act in the entire country will be a shared responsibility of both the Central and State governments. The states need to play an equally important role in enrolling all children and checking the dropouts in schools. There is no dearth of fund to make allocations to the State government for the purpose, she added.

Foreign universities

In the proposed reforms in the higher education field which is being revamped on a holistic and systematic basis, the Foreign University Bill is on the anvil. It is intended to plug the vacuum that currently exists in the higher education field. The bill will not only enable healthy competition to gear up the Indian institutions for quality education, but also open large scope in various vocational courses such as tourism and hospitality sciences. The students will also have scope for availing loans to join these foreign universities. However, this issue is still in the process of deliberation, Purandeshwari added.

The Centre had proposed to establish educational tribunals to redress litigations between the students and institutional managements. These tribunals are likely to be comprised of experts from judiciary and educational field who will act as fast track courts in addressing the issues concerned with students and the managements. National accreditation will now become a mandatory for all higher educational institutions in the country, she said.

1,000 polytechnics

Pointing out the importance of vocational courses in preparing the students to go global, the minister informed that the Central government has planned to establish 1,000 polytechnics in the country, of which 300 will be in government sector, 300 under PPP model and remaining 400 in private sector.

Later, delivering the convocation address at the 24th annual convocation ceremony at T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) here on Saturday she said innovation should be the mantra of success. Knowledge has no value without innovations and we should strive to convert ideas into innovations. The quest for innovations should be people centric. There is a need to build true innovative nature amongst youth as they are the natural custodians of the country, she added.

Manipal University Chancellor Dr Ramdass Pai, Pro Chancellor Dr H S Ballal, Chairman of Teamlease Services Manish Sabharwal, TAPMI Director Dr Saji Gopinath  were present.
DH News Service 

  

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  • A.S.Mathew, U.S.A.

    Sat, Apr 03 2010

    What kind of difference can be  created through education is simply revealed while watching the standard of living of various  states in India. The State of   Kerala and Karnataka are the  prime examples.

    Educated people are the most  valuable asset of any nation.  Any plan to educate the masses
    of India is a great venture and  highly commendable.

    Wealthy people send their children  to the best universities in India  or abroad. The middle class
    people will send the children to the less expensive universities in India, and the poor and poorest
    of the society send their children  to the street to grow up without  any education.

    The government of India has to  concentrate to giving the best  education possible to the poorest
    of the society. Else, the nation  is going to face a serious challenge of class war. The
    uneducated people will be influenced by the revolutionary  ideas of destruction, which will
    imperil the peace and prosperity of  the nation. If the educated  people can take some initiative
    to give some basic education to the  poor people, it can make a lot of   social changes for the better.

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  • Max & Jessie Rasquinha, Mangalore/Houston, Tx

    Sat, Apr 03 2010

    In the process of enriching the value of globalization, Education will play an important role for poopulated countries such as India to groom their citizens for foreign assignments. We have more than 25 million Indians scattered all over the world in pursuit of their careers and Education has been the main backbone of their credentials and for their successful survival. India will be the best country that will succeed in exporting Human capital abroad and therefore if foreign Varsities should come freely into India and acclamatize the Indian Education with certain limited blend of foreign education, Indians will prove to be very productive on every foreign soil they land and toil. We therefore wish best of success to our Educational authorities to broaden their mind and thoughts in embracing foreign blend of Education into Indian mainstream. This is one way for "Navabharattum"

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