UGC released a ‘Quality Mandate’ last week, emphasising on the need to change the current ‘rigid' evaluation system that focuses on rote learning to a more outcome-based system.
Formed 4 yrs ago, Higher Education Financing Agency was meant to grant interest-free loans to institutions. But its failure prompted Modi govt to slash funding.
Students have been writing letters to IITs & education ministry for the last two months, requesting for a third attempt as their preparation was hampered due to the pandemic.
The Open Doors report also says despite decreasing numbers, Indian students comprise the second highest percentage of total international students in US in 2019-20.
The first DU cut-off list was released last Saturday, and saw colleges continue with the high application thresholds that have become a trend at the central university.
Indian govt officials last month skipped Turkish National Day celebrations in Delhi, in a message to Ankara following its support for Islamabad, particularly during Operation Sindoor.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
No book education from school to college level includes practical DIY training on the subject they learn by memorization and are graded based on the theriacal exams given to the students. Unless the emphasis on book learning is removed, India has no hope in manufacturing anything to global standards. India needs far more vocational schools than book based High school and colleges. Most important, degrees in BA and BCom must be banned in India. The turned down students must be put in to vocational schools.
Banning degree programs is not a panache to achieve global standards. What is to be emphasized is more on the curricular delivery of the syllabus. Theory is the foundation, we need to include practical training, 360 degree internal evaluation which should be mandatory across disciplines. I appreciate the OBE outcome based evaluation which UGC is proposed for higher education which is the need of the hour.
No book education from school to college level includes practical DIY training on the subject they learn by memorization and are graded based on the theriacal exams given to the students. Unless the emphasis on book learning is removed, India has no hope in manufacturing anything to global standards. India needs far more vocational schools than book based High school and colleges. Most important, degrees in BA and BCom must be banned in India. The turned down students must be put in to vocational schools.
Banning degree programs is not a panache to achieve global standards. What is to be emphasized is more on the curricular delivery of the syllabus. Theory is the foundation, we need to include practical training, 360 degree internal evaluation which should be mandatory across disciplines. I appreciate the OBE outcome based evaluation which UGC is proposed for higher education which is the need of the hour.