Maharashtra governor K Sankaranarayanan on Sunday stressed on the need to reform higher education sector with a view to make students more employable. He was speaking to TOI on sidelines of foundation stone laying ceremony of Nagpur University's molecular biology and genetic engineering department at its campus on Amravati Road. The new department building would come up near the botany department.
"The graduates are finding it difficult to get jobs. Unemployment is growing. If they fail to find a suitable job, it results problems in the family. Innovative and job-oriented courses should be devised so that when a student passes out from the college is able to land a decent job," Sankaranarayanan, who is also chancellor of all state universities, said.
He added that he had raised the issue of education sector reforms during recent meeting of joint board of vice chancellors (JBVC) in Pune. "I've asked the VCs to focus on research and new courses. Perhaps vocational university can fill up this huge vacuum between demand and supply," he stated.
Expressing concern on large number of engineering seats remaining vacant, Sankaranarayanan said some years back the students community was attracted to these courses owing to boom in IT sector. "Students are, however, again shifting to the traditional branches like civil and mechanical due to lack of IT sector jobs," he remarked.
Earlier, NU vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal who gave a presentation before the chancellor, informed that the university was focused on developmental activities like new administrative building, implementation of choice-based credit system (CBCS), and introducing semester pattern in various courses. "We have also informed them on our plans to introduce five-year integrated programmes and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in teaching and research," he said.
HCBA meets Guv on change in NLS venue
A delegation of High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Nagpur, on Sunday met the governor over minister for state for higher and technical education DP Sawant's remarks about National Law School (NLS), initially planned to be set up in the city, being shifted to Vasai in Mumbai. The delegation led by HCBA president Anil Mardikar and secretary Abhay Sambre appealed to Sankaranarayanan to personally look into the issue and direct the government to relocate NLS in Nagpur where there were a number of law colleges.
Terming the Maharashtra government's move as "grave injustice to the people of Vidarbha", the HCBA members informed the governor that entire legal fraternity in the city was shocked over the development. They reminded him of support provided by none other than President Pratibha Patil, Supreme Court judges Vikas Sirpurkar and Dalveer Bhandari, chief justice Mohit Shah and chief minister Prithviraj Chavan for setting up NLS in the region. Interestingly, the announcement to set up NLS in Nagpur was made during HCBA's platinum jubilee celebrations in February in presence of the governor himself. He, however, refused to comment on the matter.
"The graduates are finding it difficult to get jobs. Unemployment is growing. If they fail to find a suitable job, it results problems in the family. Innovative and job-oriented courses should be devised so that when a student passes out from the college is able to land a decent job," Sankaranarayanan, who is also chancellor of all state universities, said.
He added that he had raised the issue of education sector reforms during recent meeting of joint board of vice chancellors (JBVC) in Pune. "I've asked the VCs to focus on research and new courses. Perhaps vocational university can fill up this huge vacuum between demand and supply," he stated.
Expressing concern on large number of engineering seats remaining vacant, Sankaranarayanan said some years back the students community was attracted to these courses owing to boom in IT sector. "Students are, however, again shifting to the traditional branches like civil and mechanical due to lack of IT sector jobs," he remarked.
Earlier, NU vice-chancellor Vilas Sapkal who gave a presentation before the chancellor, informed that the university was focused on developmental activities like new administrative building, implementation of choice-based credit system (CBCS), and introducing semester pattern in various courses. "We have also informed them on our plans to introduce five-year integrated programmes and use of information and communications technology (ICT) in teaching and research," he said.
HCBA meets Guv on change in NLS venue
A delegation of High Court Bar Association (HCBA), Nagpur, on Sunday met the governor over minister for state for higher and technical education DP Sawant's remarks about National Law School (NLS), initially planned to be set up in the city, being shifted to Vasai in Mumbai. The delegation led by HCBA president Anil Mardikar and secretary Abhay Sambre appealed to Sankaranarayanan to personally look into the issue and direct the government to relocate NLS in Nagpur where there were a number of law colleges.
Terming the Maharashtra government's move as "grave injustice to the people of Vidarbha", the HCBA members informed the governor that entire legal fraternity in the city was shocked over the development. They reminded him of support provided by none other than President Pratibha Patil, Supreme Court judges Vikas Sirpurkar and Dalveer Bhandari, chief justice Mohit Shah and chief minister Prithviraj Chavan for setting up NLS in the region. Interestingly, the announcement to set up NLS in Nagpur was made during HCBA's platinum jubilee celebrations in February in presence of the governor himself. He, however, refused to comment on the matter.
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