The Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) was the main focus of discussion among the vice-chancellors of several universities during a session on ‘Improving Gross Enrollment Ratio in Higher Education: Implications for Higher Education Institutes’, in the World Education Summit 2011.
While speaking at the session Professor Dinesh Singh, Vice –Chancellor, Delhi University, felt that only adding more and more students in different universities is not an answer for development of education in our country. Improvement of education system is the need of the hour. Students run after Oxford. If they stop that, GER will automatically increase.
“Sachin Tendulkar is a kind of role model. He has no degree, yet he is successful in his own field and remains sober by nature. No one say anything against him. Ramanujam, the mathematician never had any degree. We need to re-look on this. There is lot of darkness within educational institutions”, he said
Further he pointed out that people should stop disregarding ODL mode and start acknowledging it as another way to develop skills and education. Mark Twain had once said he never let his schooling interfere in his education. Information and communications technology (ICT ) is another form of broadening education to reach out large number of masses and help in distance learning. Teachers can only show the path. It’s up to students to grab opportunities.
Prof. K. Kannan, Vice–Chancellor, Nagaland University pointed out that it is futile to talk about GER when our country do not have much universities. “In North-East we have not just begin on education. Each area has its own problems. The exam results are declared very late due to which student’s have lost interest in coming to colleges. Earlier it used to take four months now we are reducing it”.
He also remarked that universities also have so many seats available but students from this part of the country want to study in other Delhi or other universities. North-East has so much land where education institutions can be built, suggested Kannan.
Stressing on the point on the need to improve the education system, Dr. C. Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor, OP Jindal Globalal University said that its quality is attached to the kind of great facilities that are provided in India.
Raj Kumar also opined that large number of people wants to come into higher education but they don’t want to come into academia. Academicians and the Government need to see how to increase their interest in this field.
“You cannot be a good teacher if you are not a good researcher. Universities must have substantial focus on research and scholarships”, he said.
During his speech the Bengal Engineering and Science University (BESU) Vice-Chancellor Professor Ajay Kumar Ray stated universities cannot rely on government funs. They need help from Private sector. Collaboration with them is necessary as more and more people coming for higher education in India.
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