Time for self-financing institutions to do some reflection: Sunil Paliwal
Staff Reporter
Coimbatore, November 29, 2017 00:00 IST
It was time for self-financing higher education institutions to do some reflection and see if they are on the right path, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Sunil Paliwal said here recently.
Addressing participants at the Association of Self-Financing Arts, Science and Management College of Tamil Nadu’s Avanteach 2017, he said self-financing colleges had no doubt helped in proving the gross enrolment ration in the State - 44.3 %, which was one of the highest in the State.
From 20-odd universities, 200 colleges and two lakh students a year in 1947, the country now had 800-plus universities, 40,000 colleges and over 3.50 crore students. Tamil Nadu played a major role in this as it had around 750 self-financing or private arts college institutions, as many colleges of education and over 500 engineering colleges.
But there was a social factor to the development as well. Many students, after Plus Two, parked themselves in colleges because they could not get employment. The reason was that though five to six million students passed out of colleges, only two million of those got employment, Mr. Paliwal said.
B.S. Ponmudiraj, Deputy Advisor and Coordinator, Northern Region, NAAC, urged colleges to participate more by way of sending feedback to formulate new assessment methods. Private colleges should also encourage faculty to undergo orientation programme or refresher courses.
The Association president A.M.M. Khallel wanted the State Government to ensure parity between arts and science colleges and engineering colleges in faculty qualification. While engineering colleges admitted candidates with post graduation - M.R. or M.Tech. or the former had to ensure that they recruited candidates with Ph.D. or NET/SLET or both.
He sought Central and State government to give research grants to private institutions.
Staff Reporter
Coimbatore, November 29, 2017 00:00 IST
It was time for self-financing higher education institutions to do some reflection and see if they are on the right path, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Sunil Paliwal said here recently.
Addressing participants at the Association of Self-Financing Arts, Science and Management College of Tamil Nadu’s Avanteach 2017, he said self-financing colleges had no doubt helped in proving the gross enrolment ration in the State - 44.3 %, which was one of the highest in the State.
From 20-odd universities, 200 colleges and two lakh students a year in 1947, the country now had 800-plus universities, 40,000 colleges and over 3.50 crore students. Tamil Nadu played a major role in this as it had around 750 self-financing or private arts college institutions, as many colleges of education and over 500 engineering colleges.
But there was a social factor to the development as well. Many students, after Plus Two, parked themselves in colleges because they could not get employment. The reason was that though five to six million students passed out of colleges, only two million of those got employment, Mr. Paliwal said.
B.S. Ponmudiraj, Deputy Advisor and Coordinator, Northern Region, NAAC, urged colleges to participate more by way of sending feedback to formulate new assessment methods. Private colleges should also encourage faculty to undergo orientation programme or refresher courses.
The Association president A.M.M. Khallel wanted the State Government to ensure parity between arts and science colleges and engineering colleges in faculty qualification. While engineering colleges admitted candidates with post graduation - M.R. or M.Tech. or the former had to ensure that they recruited candidates with Ph.D. or NET/SLET or both.
He sought Central and State government to give research grants to private institutions.
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