UGC to train senior staff for Vice Chancellor post 

Special Correspondent 
 
CHENNAI, August 11, 2018 00:00 IST

The initial candidates will be selected by the HRD Ministry

University Grants Commission is drafting a training programme for senior professors to be appointed as Vice Chancellors. The scheme looks to equip prospective candidates to administrate the university affairs. “The training is for the prospective educational leaders ,” said Dhirendra Pal Singh, chairman, UGC.

The UGC will invite for applications from potential candidates and will forwarded them to the Ministry of Human Resource Development for a final selection.

Foreign collaboration

“The training would be in India and abroad in some of the world’s best universities,” Mr. Singh said at an interaction with professors of the University of Madras on Friday. A similar proposal is being considered for existing V-Cs also, he added.

“We should identify our strengths. We want a collaborative programme where the experts from those countries will come here and our people would go there,” he said.

He spoke of the various initiatives the UGC to improve the quality of institutions. The country had 900 universities, over 3.64 crore students and 30 lakh teachers. Education has to be affordable for all, he maintained.

In the last two decades the number of private universities had risen but the quality of their teaching faculty would increase only if they paid the faculty well, he said.