|
Create knowledge systems, not learning systems: UGC
Tuesday February 14, 2012 08:04:49 PM,
IANS
|
|
New Delhi: Higher
education institutes in the country should strive harder to be
knowledge systems, rather than just learning systems, chairman of
the University Grants Commission (UGC) Ved Prakash said here
Tuesday.
"Most of the institutions fall in the category of learning systems
and not knowledge systems. Research and teaching are two distinct
activities today and are rarely used together," Prakash said at
the concluding ceremony of the Indira Gandhi National Open
University's (IGNOU) staff training programme.
The staff training and research institute of distance education
(STRIDE) was a 21-day refresher programme in distance education at
the university headquarters in the capital.
Prakash said nearly 4.6 million students in the country pursue
education through distance mode.
According to him, IGNOU accounts for 90 percent of the figure. "We
would like to increase the enrolment from 4.6 million to 6.6
million in distance mode of education," Prakash added.
Headquartered in the national capital, the UGC works on
maintenance of standards of university education and providing
recognition to varsities.
"There is a need to overcome the barriers that have been created
between the conventional and distance education systems, which are
in fact complementary to each other," said M. Aslam, vice
chancellor of IGNOU.
The university will soon be establishing its study centre in
Zambian Open University for three masters in business
administration (MBA) programmes.
|
|
|
|
Home |
Top of the Page |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
|
Quick links