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Winds of change, Making Higher Education Globally competitive

Winds of change, Making Higher Education Globally competitive. Challenges, strategies, and Policies of Universities/Colleges BY B M Naik. Challenges. Where do I ndian universities stand in world list? Why thousands of students go abroad?

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Winds of change, Making Higher Education Globally competitive

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  1. Winds of change, Making Higher Education Globally competitive Challenges, strategies, and Policies of Universities/Colleges BY B M Naik

  2. Challenges • Where do Indian universities stand in world list? • Why thousands of students go abroad? • Why foreign universities are knocking our doors? • Knowledge and skill set of people is low? • Universities/colleges are far too behind world. • They are inflexible, bureaucratic and not adaptive • Visions & Missions, Policies & Practices, Systems & Procedures are obsolete. Inefficient • Industry does not get new technology from HEI

  3. Enrolment Ratio/Quality/RelevanceNational Knowledge commission • Challenge to increase enrolment to 30% • Improve quality to world class-Excellence • Make education inclusive. • Make education creative, innovative, not rote learning. • Improve Academic culture, infrastructure, • Resources in short supply or visions? • GDP too low, poverty, living standard

  4. Strategies • Knowledge is prime mover, fundamental resource, S & T especially can help to meet challenges, dreams • Nations are progressive where institutes autonomous • Adopt PPP, Set up Incubation center, research park, patent & IPR center, corporate education, independent but interdependent, attached to university/college • use alumni force, Internal and external forces. • Network with national, international universities, labs, scientists. Adopt collaboration culture. • Present research output in Industrial Exhibitions

  5. Reform governance, leadership, and structure of universities, Act • University/ college 20 yrs hence will look like what? Dream • Autonomous, academic freedom to students • Privately supported but publicly accountable, socially committed • Students to make careers in global economy • Indian university will be international located in India • Campus of today represents society of tomorrow

  6. Future leaders are strolling in campuseducate them well- leaders matter • University must be challenged and enabled to play a influential role in creation of future. • CAFETARIA approach, global perspectives • Make education compatible to globalization. • Universities are reflection centers of knowledge, coming from abroad, copy cats. • weak in research, innovation, patent & IPR, not aligned to world dynamics. Indian brands

  7. Can India become a developed nation by 2020? • Professors have less exposure less mobility to counterparts else where in world. • Followers can not become leaders. • Universities are bogies and not engines. • Mediocrity is wide spread, costs more • They ought to be light house to economy. • Can they be propellers of economy? • Teaching and research must go together.

  8. Do we have cutting edge research infrastructure? • Does future depend on intellectual capital? • Teaching subsidizes research and vice-a versa • Is Education taking place outside university model? Is it good? • Use Politics to improve education • Privatization is useful or harmful? • Industry Institution interaction lacking. • University should show lead to win in world.

  9. What are components of international universities • Good teaching in class rooms is necessary but not enough • They must be enterprising, Research Park, Incubator, VCF, life long education, spin-off companies, Research council, Fund raising team, Extension department, outward looking • Universities must take global view. • Learn from China, How many books of Indians • Invite world best professors to interact

  10. What will happen if not modernized? Resources will flow out, standard will remain low Our dream will not be fulfilled. We will lag behind, poverty will prevail.

  11. Universities provide economic security, leaders, jobs, industrial development • Paradigm shift needed- Yeshpal, NKC reports • Teaching /Research assistant schemes • More of PhDs, NTBF • TQM, Quality manual, trust and confidence • Industry wants new technology, ideas. • Nations develop fast where HEI are excellent • How universities are established elsewhere? • Chancellor should be an academician

  12. Problems in adoption implementation of reports, what are they? • Obstruction from UGC/AICTE universities to NKC report, Yeshpal Committee Report • Inertia-resistance, Adaptability to change • Politics, Bureaucracy, lack of academic leadership • Lack of autonomy, lack connections with world • Who can shape future – Universities, knowledge • Indians have talent, capability, you can • Eachshould show will and skill, You matter most. • Thank you

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