Varsities must go the extra mile for better global ranking’
Guest of honour:Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit arriving for an event in Chennai on Tuesday.K. PichumaniK. Pichumani
Governor urges Vice Chancellors, registrars to create a road map for improvement
Vice-chancellors and registrars of colleges should revisit the founding vision to take the institutions to greater heights and achieve their objectives, Tamil Nadu Governor Banwarilal Purohit said on Tuesday. Inaugurating the capacity building workshop on institutional ranking for vice-chancellors and registrars of universities in the State held in the city on Tuesday, he said accreditation and rankings ensured quality of education and benchmarked the institutions based on their performance in a competitive set-up. He wanted the universities to put in extra effort to improve their ranking in the world stage by undergoing self evaluation and undertaking audit and gap analysis. Also, the universities should create a road map for improvement.
The Governor said he was happy to note that three Indian institutions were ranked among the top 200 universities with one institution finding a place in the top 100 institutions in the engineering and technology category. However, many parameters of the global rankings did not capture the ground realities prevailing in the country, and particularly, in Tamil Nadu, Mr. Purohit said.
Against this backdrop, the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) and the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), that are part of the international ranking systems, provided a true picture, he added.
Minister for Higher Education K.P. Anbazhagan said providing quality higher education had been the motto of the AIADMK government, and this was evident from the fact that the State was ranked first in the report of the All India Survey of Education 2015-16 in terms of the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER).
He pointed out that a total of 76 colleges had been opened in the State, with 65 colleges inaugurated during former Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s tenure, and 11 new colleges under the present Chief Minister, Edappadi K. Palaniswami.
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