Universities have become conservative organizations: NAAC Director
04 Apr 2012
"Universities have really become conservative organizations. The universities in India don't want to change their process and system to benchmark with world class standards," said Prof. HA Ranganath, Director, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) in a recent conference organized by Indian Chamber of Commerce in association with Heritage Group of Institutions, Kolkata and other educational conglomerates.
Kapil Sibal, Minister of HRD, also addressed the conference and said that academic councils of the universities are clustered by people with vested interests. "There is no uniformity in Higher education. A student who is completing his graduation in yearly system cannot shift into semester system because of the lack of uniformity and therefore this sector had become immobile for aspirants,” said Sibal.
Prof. Ranganath emphasized that accreditation is the solution for the problems plaguing the current higher educational sector "What the country needs in this hour is the approval of NCHER and the current NAAC bill which would revolutionize the Indian Educational sector making a single regulatory body for all educational institutes and also making pre-accreditation process mandatory."
In the context of equity, expansion, empowerment and evolution in Higher education, the current Director of NAAC feels it mandatory for all technical and professional institutes to go for pre-accreditation inspection within three years of establishment. Also this would curb any mal-practices conducted by different private institutes in the country. Moreover he feels that NAAC accreditation is just like a health-check up which would give the opportunities to each and every institute to improve upon their processes and systems to become a world class institute.
Kapil Sibal, Minister of HRD, also addressed the conference and said that academic councils of the universities are clustered by people with vested interests. "There is no uniformity in Higher education. A student who is completing his graduation in yearly system cannot shift into semester system because of the lack of uniformity and therefore this sector had become immobile for aspirants,” said Sibal. Focusing on the current trend of education sector in West Bengal, Prof. BB. Paira, Director, Heritage, said that the government should encourage private players in Higher education by introducing different innovative schemes and moreover they should conduct faculty development programmes for faculties to train them as per quality standards.
"Faculties are really scarce not only in private institutes but also in government institutes", he commented.
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