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Vice President, Mohd.
Hamid Ansari delivering the Convocation Address of the Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi), in New Delhi on August 07, 2010. |
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Vice President Hamid
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New Delhi:
IITs may take credit for being the finest technical institutions in
the country but Vice President Hamid Ansari today rued that they are
yet to be recognised among the 100 best institutes world-wide.
He said the institutes fare poorly in
terms of international grading of academic output based on
publication, patents applied for and granted and faculty citation.
"No Indian university, not even an IIT, figures in the top 100 of
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute''s academic ranking of world
universities or in top 100 of the 2009 Times Higher Education world
university rankings," he said while delivering an address at the
41st convocation of IIT-Delhi.
He also expressed concern over IIT
pass outs gradually shying away from research work saying, "Less than
15 per cent of those graduating from IITs move towards teaching or
research, whether in India or abroad."
"We need in the first place to focus on accessible learning,
affordable learning, and applicable learning. We need to close the
gap between policy intent and actual delivery," the Vice President
said.
Chairman of Board of Governors of IIT-Delhi R P Agrawal said that
while the HRD Ministry have initiated a "bouquet" of measures to
attract the best students to teaching profession, the society at
large has to play a big role in restoring the status attached to the
teaching profession.
"Teacher first should become our
national slogan. The society has to restore the traditional status
and prestige as used to be attached to the teaching profession," he
said.
1,371 students were awarded degrees at
the convocation, including over 100 who were given doctorate
degrees.
The Vice President also honoured eminent nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar with the ''Degree of Doctor of Science'' for his
contribution in the area of research and development of nuclear
reactors.
Group Director-IT of Bharati
Enterprises Jai Menon, a product of IIT-Delhi, was conferred the
''Distinguished Alumni Award'' by Ansari for his contribution as a
corporate leader and researcher.
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