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Higher education standards need improvement:
President
Friday December 28, 2012 07:33:38 PM,
IANS
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Chennai:
Stating that there was need to improve the quality of higher
education in India, President Pranab Mukherjee Friday expressed
concern over Indian universities not figuring in any international
rank charts and said the private sector could play a role in
fulfilling educational aspirations of the young and raising
standards.
"The standards of higher education in India today need
improvement," Mukherjee said while addressing at the convocation
of SRM University here.
"We need universities to provide quality education that meet
international benchmarks. We must change the reality of our
universities not figuring in the list of top universities of the
world," he said.
No Indian university figures in the first 200 ranks in prestigious
Times Higher Education survey for 2011-12.
The president pointed out that participation of private sector is
very important in this process.
"With unlimited demands and limited resources, it is important
that the private sector also contributes its best to the provision
of higher education in India. The private sector has played a key
role in higher education in other countries across the world. Many
top universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford are the
result of efforts of the private sector. There is no reason why
Indian private sector cannot achieve similar results," he said.
He also said Indians in general were apprehensive about private
universities, and "prefer education in old and established public
universities as opposed to private universities which are mostly
newly built".
"To build the trust of the people, private universities must
constantly prove themselves because they do not have the benefit
of age. They must be able to promise a good future to the students
and make sure that they fulfil all of their promises," he said.
The president also expressed concern over shortage of good faculty
in universities.
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