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Quality in higher education is essential: Shankarmurthy

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High aspirations: Higher Education Minister D.H. Shankarmurthy speaking to students during the launch of ‘MBA Banking and Finance’ at the SAP-K Business School in Bangalore on Sunday. —

BANGALORE: Higher Education Minister D.H. Shankarmurthy has called on the educational institutions not to compromise on quality in higher education as the employability of the student depended on it.

Mr. Shankarmurthy was speaking at the inauguration of the Master of Business Administration in Banking and Finance, launched by the Souharda Abhivriddi Prathishtana Karnataka (SAP-K) in association with the University of Mysore here on Sunday.

He added that the modern higher education field has to open up opportunities for the students by designing innovative courses as well as imparting qualitative teaching.

He said in the present context, opportunities have to be created and engineered unlike in the past when opportunities were embedded in the system itself.

Mr. Shankarmurthy said the new fields that were emerging in various sectors need new breed of students. To prepare them, a new breed of teachers were needed, who should be well-versed with modern techniques of teaching and learning. Mr. Murthy, who had just returned from the U.S. after attending an Indo-U.S. “Engineering Teaching Upgradation” programme, said that a consortium of Indo-U.S. investors provided $660,000 to initiate a quality improvement programme for teachers of engineering and other higher education courses.

In a meeting in the U.S., he met World Bank experts to release Rs. 130 crore towards the Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme (TEQIP) for the State through the Ministry of Human Resource Development.

Vice-Chancellor of Mysore University Shashidhar Prasad said the educational institutions in business and finance should also look at the insurance sector, which is opening up in a big way and needs technically-trained hands and administrators.

Chairman of the SAP-K business school and MLC Manohar Maski said the opening up of the economy has had its effect on the field of education, particularly in business and commerce.

He said the banking, trade and commerce fields were now looking for improving human resources in compliance with Basel I and Basel II norms, which only modern business schools were equipped to deliver.

Speaking to The Hindu on the sidelines of the programme, Mr. Shankarmurthy said that Karnataka had been one of the top States in the country to use the TEQIP funds to its fullest extent.

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