The university system is not producing well-educated graduates to meet the needs and demands of Indian companies, giving an opportunity to firms to enter the sector in the guise of training, minister of state for human resource development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor said on Monday. He also said the national education policy in the past had not been in sync with time.
He was speaking at the two-day 8th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2012, organized in partnership with the HRD ministry and the Planning Commission. MBAUniverse.com is the online media partner of the event.
Mr Tharoor said, Companies are entering the higher education space in the guise of training. Our university system simply is not producing well-educated graduates to meet the needs of Indian companies, he said. The HRD minister said there would not be any need for many Indian students to go abroad for study if good higher education institutes are set up in the country. We will also work towards putting our reform agenda back on track. Tharoor said there is a proposal to establish 50 centres for research in areas of science, innovation and research. If finally established, these centres would transform the research environment in our country.
Mr Tharoor favoured expediting setting up of the national mission for teachers and implementing recommendations of the Narayana Murthy Committee and the Kakodkar Committee besides spending of 2 per cent of the GDP on research.
The minister said with the ranks of educated unemployed swelling in absence of adequate employment opportunities, there is a possibility of their falling prey to the activities of terrorists and Maoists. We must give them a better chance of employment through more and improved educational possibilities. My message is it is time to let a thousand educational flowers bloom, he said.
He said even though India, with 621 universities and 33,500 colleges, has one of the largest networks of higher education institutes in the world and stands second in terms of student enrolment, the gross enrolment ratio of 18.8 per cent in 2011 was still less than the global average of 26 per cent.
The major problem remains that our national education policy in the past remained out of step with the time. Whereas countries in the Middle East and China are going out of their way to woo foreign universities to set up campuses in their countries, India turned away many academic suitors who came calling in recent years, Mr Tharoor said.
Describing IITs, IIMs and some colleges as world class institutions, he said, These are still islands in a sea of mediocrity. Citing a UGC survey of 1,471 colleges and 111 universities, he said 73 per cent of the colleges and 68 per cent of the universities are found to be of medium or low quality.Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more news on FICCI higher education summit
He was speaking at the two-day 8th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2012, organized in partnership with the HRD ministry and the Planning Commission. MBAUniverse.com is the online media partner of the event.
Mr Tharoor said, Companies are entering the higher education space in the guise of training. Our university system simply is not producing well-educated graduates to meet the needs of Indian companies, he said. The HRD minister said there would not be any need for many Indian students to go abroad for study if good higher education institutes are set up in the country. We will also work towards putting our reform agenda back on track. Tharoor said there is a proposal to establish 50 centres for research in areas of science, innovation and research. If finally established, these centres would transform the research environment in our country.
Mr Tharoor favoured expediting setting up of the national mission for teachers and implementing recommendations of the Narayana Murthy Committee and the Kakodkar Committee besides spending of 2 per cent of the GDP on research.
The minister said with the ranks of educated unemployed swelling in absence of adequate employment opportunities, there is a possibility of their falling prey to the activities of terrorists and Maoists. We must give them a better chance of employment through more and improved educational possibilities. My message is it is time to let a thousand educational flowers bloom, he said.
He said even though India, with 621 universities and 33,500 colleges, has one of the largest networks of higher education institutes in the world and stands second in terms of student enrolment, the gross enrolment ratio of 18.8 per cent in 2011 was still less than the global average of 26 per cent.
The major problem remains that our national education policy in the past remained out of step with the time. Whereas countries in the Middle East and China are going out of their way to woo foreign universities to set up campuses in their countries, India turned away many academic suitors who came calling in recent years, Mr Tharoor said.
Describing IITs, IIMs and some colleges as world class institutions, he said, These are still islands in a sea of mediocrity. Citing a UGC survey of 1,471 colleges and 111 universities, he said 73 per cent of the colleges and 68 per cent of the universities are found to be of medium or low quality.Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more news on FICCI higher education summit
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The university system is not producing well-educated graduates to meet the needs and demands of Indian companies, giving an opportunity to firms to enter the sector in the guise of training, minister of state for human resource development (HRD) Shashi Tharoor said on Monday. He also said the national education policy in the past had not been in sync with time.
He was speaking at the two-day 8th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2012, organized in partnership with the HRD ministry and the Planning Commission. MBAUniverse.com is the online media partner of the event.
Mr Tharoor said, Companies are entering the higher education space in the guise of training. Our university system simply is not producing well-educated graduates to meet the needs of Indian companies, he said. The HRD minister said there would not be any need for many Indian students to go abroad for study if good higher education institutes are set up in the country. We will also work towards putting our reform agenda back on track. Tharoor said there is a proposal to establish 50 centres for research in areas of science, innovation and research. If finally established, these centres would transform the research environment in our country.
Mr Tharoor favoured expediting setting up of the national mission for teachers and implementing recommendations of the Narayana Murthy Committee and the Kakodkar Committee besides spending of 2 per cent of the GDP on research.
The minister said with the ranks of educated unemployed swelling in absence of adequate employment opportunities, there is a possibility of their falling prey to the activities of terrorists and Maoists. We must give them a better chance of employment through more and improved educational possibilities. My message is it is time to let a thousand educational flowers bloom, he said.
He said even though India, with 621 universities and 33,500 colleges, has one of the largest networks of higher education institutes in the world and stands second in terms of student enrolment, the gross enrolment ratio of 18.8 per cent in 2011 was still less than the global average of 26 per cent.
The major problem remains that our national education policy in the past remained out of step with the time. Whereas countries in the Middle East and China are going out of their way to woo foreign universities to set up campuses in their countries, India turned away many academic suitors who came calling in recent years, Mr Tharoor said.
Describing IITs, IIMs and some colleges as world class institutions, he said, These are still islands in a sea of mediocrity. Citing a UGC survey of 1,471 colleges and 111 universities, he said 73 per cent of the colleges and 68 per cent of the universities are found to be of medium or low quality.Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more news on FICCI higher education summit
He was speaking at the two-day 8th FICCI Higher Education Summit 2012, organized in partnership with the HRD ministry and the Planning Commission. MBAUniverse.com is the online media partner of the event.
Mr Tharoor said, Companies are entering the higher education space in the guise of training. Our university system simply is not producing well-educated graduates to meet the needs of Indian companies, he said. The HRD minister said there would not be any need for many Indian students to go abroad for study if good higher education institutes are set up in the country. We will also work towards putting our reform agenda back on track. Tharoor said there is a proposal to establish 50 centres for research in areas of science, innovation and research. If finally established, these centres would transform the research environment in our country.
Mr Tharoor favoured expediting setting up of the national mission for teachers and implementing recommendations of the Narayana Murthy Committee and the Kakodkar Committee besides spending of 2 per cent of the GDP on research.
The minister said with the ranks of educated unemployed swelling in absence of adequate employment opportunities, there is a possibility of their falling prey to the activities of terrorists and Maoists. We must give them a better chance of employment through more and improved educational possibilities. My message is it is time to let a thousand educational flowers bloom, he said.
He said even though India, with 621 universities and 33,500 colleges, has one of the largest networks of higher education institutes in the world and stands second in terms of student enrolment, the gross enrolment ratio of 18.8 per cent in 2011 was still less than the global average of 26 per cent.
The major problem remains that our national education policy in the past remained out of step with the time. Whereas countries in the Middle East and China are going out of their way to woo foreign universities to set up campuses in their countries, India turned away many academic suitors who came calling in recent years, Mr Tharoor said.
Describing IITs, IIMs and some colleges as world class institutions, he said, These are still islands in a sea of mediocrity. Citing a UGC survey of 1,471 colleges and 111 universities, he said 73 per cent of the colleges and 68 per cent of the universities are found to be of medium or low quality.Stay tuned to MBAUniverse.com for more news on FICCI higher education summit
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