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`Institutions must adhere to justice'

By Our Staff Correspondent

Lukose Vallatharai, former Commissioner, Collegiate Education (left), with P.N. Udayachandra, professor, SDM College, Ujire, at a seminar on `Institutional value practices' in Bantwal, on Wednesday.

BANTWAL, DEC. 29. The qualities of institutions reflect the quality of people who manage them, according to Lukose Vallatharai, former Commissioner, Collegiate Education.

Delivering the keynote address at the inauguration of a two-day national workshop on "Institutional value practices" at Sri Venkataramana Swamy College here on Wednesday, Mr. Vallatharai said that institutions should adhere to justice and fairness and practise the same.

The workshop was sponsored by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council.

He said that identifying values to be practised by an institution is not a very difficult but to make them acceptable to all and create an environment for practising them is a challenge.

Declared values of an institution can become threatened and may suffer casualties over time, under the yoke of different types of pressures that brought up on people who manage the institution, he said.

Since the primary goal of an educational institution is to develop the character of young people, to train the mind and to acquire knowledge and information, the institution has to learn to transact values in daily lives and build value transaction capacity among all its stakeholders. The transaction governance capacity may include macro and micro regulations and norms and institutional arrangements for enforcement, he said.

Mr. Vallatharai said that young people at the university should be given an understanding of moral and spiritual values on a level with the rest of their education so that an integrated view of life is internalised by all. Life must have meaning beyond the simple task of earning money for physical necessities and luxuries if one wants to lead a life worthy of a human being, he added.

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