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Drastic Reforms
in Higher
Education Needed: Prime Minister
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While addressing the UGC
– Golden Jubilee Inaugural Function on 28th December, 2002, at Vigyan
Bhawan, New Delhi, Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Hon’ble Prime Minister,
exhorted the academics to reform the higher education structure to
cope up with the challenges in access, quality, relevance and international
competence. The function was also graced by Hon’ble Minister for Human
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distinguished academics,
present and former officers and staff of the UGC. The Prime Minister
emphasized the need to expand access of quality education to a larger
percentage of people and appreciated the UGC’s steps in this direction
including interlinking Universities and Colleges through UGC – Infonet,
performance – based funding, and developing the Centres of Excellence.
He opined that further efforts are required to- |
for Human Resource
Development, Science and Technology and Ocean Development, Prof. Murli
Manohar Joshi and the then Minister of State for Human Resource Development,
Prof. Rita Verma, Shri S.K. Tripathy, Secretary, Higher Education,
Ministry of Human Resource Development and Shri Rajeev Ratna Shah,
Secretary, Ministry of Information and Communication |
UGC
– Golden Jubilee Inaugural Function on 28th December, 2002, at Vigyan
Bhawan, New Delhi.
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u enrich R&D capabilities
by direct tie-up between universities, national laboratories and industry,
u make India an attractive destination for higher education, u harness
the opportunities provided by the globalization of the employment
market. Shri Vajpayee also pointed towards the need of revision of
fee
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Technologies, were also present. Other
dignitaries included the present and former members of the University
Grants Commission, former Chairpersons, Vice-Chairpersons and Secretaries
of UGC, Vice-Chancellors, |
structure, improvement in the governance
of educational institutions and expansion of the scope of public-private
partnership to leverage the financial, managerial and teaching resources
in the private sector. |
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