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Call to improve quality of education
Staff Reporter
KARAIKUDI: Alagappa University Registrar R. Dhandapani has urged managements of educational institutions to take steps to improve the quality of education.
Delivering the convocation address at the Alagappa Government Arts College held here recently, he said there was no doubt that the number of institutions had multiplied in the recent years.
Several newcomers had established institutions. They should wake up to the occasion to improve the quality of education. Old institutions should take concrete steps to bridge the gap in quality.
Mr. Dhandapani said the growth of institutions of higher education was very slow prior to independence.
There were just 20 universities and 500 colleges with a student intake of 2.4 lakh in 1946. Today, there are over 400 universities, 17,500 colleges with an annual intake of around 12 million students.
However, only 7.5 per cent in the age group of 17-23 had access to higher education in comparison to the 15-22 per cent in developed countries.
The higher education system was massive and it had spread across the length and breadth of the country. But it didn’t have equitable academic as well as physical infrastructure throughout the country. There were IITs and IIMs at one end of the spectrum and substandard institutions at the other end.
He said that education, which was once considered as a social service, had become an investment with profitable returns and a commodity to be exported. Mr. Dhandapani said the global scenario posed unprecedented challenges for the higher education system.
A whole range of skills were being demanded from the graduates of general stream as well as professional courses.
Project-based interdisciplinary courses had to be encouraged. Principal V. Vembaiyan participated.
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