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| Higher education in India is a 'sick child': Arjun Singh | | | New Delhi | Oct 10
Exhorting over 300 vice-chancellors to accelerate the pace of higher education in India, Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Arjun Singh Wednesday said the sector is a "sick child and time has come to face reality
"Higher education in India is a sick child of education either by design or default," Singh said in a conference of vice-chancellors (VC) in the capital” .It is not a place for reproach or accolades but the academic world should come to terms with reality. Neglecting higher education is no longer serving the cause of young India”. I am not blaming any one but we have to come out of this. As vice-chancellors, you have opportunity and duty to find a way out for it. To prescribe is not my ideology. Let us now inscribe. Give the country a roadmap of higher education," the minister told the vice-chancellors from across the country”. The 11th five-year plan will give enough room to experiment in education. Over 300 vice-chancellors of state-run, private and deemed universities are in Delhi to draw up a roadmap for higher education in the country at a two-day conference in the capital beginning Wednesday. These educational experts along with officials of the human resource development (HRD) ministry and the University Grants Commission (UGC) will finalise a roadmap for India's higher education sector for the next five years”. India is not knocking at the doors of the world, but the world is knocking at the doors of India. It is up to us to open the door or keep it shut," he said Singh also inaugurated an exhibition on 150 years of higher education in India. To commemorate the completion of 150 years of modern university system, the exhibition depicts the journey of higher education from early 18th century onwards. |
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