Teaching and Research should be used together

Updated on: Wednesday, February 15, 2012

UGC chairman Ved Prakash emphasised on developing close linkages between teaching and research in institutes and rued that the two are rarely used together at present.

"Research and teaching are two distinct activities today and are rarely used together," he said.

There should be a close linkage between teaching and research, Prakash said at a function organised by IGNOU. He also regretted the fact that most of the institutions fall in the category of learning systems and not knowledge systems.

Prakash said the UGC is aiming at increasing the enrolment from 20 to 30 million in conventional system and 4.6 million to 6.6 million under distance mode of education.

"It is only then we can say that we have arrived at 30 per cent gross enrolment ratio," he said. At present, the ratio stands roughly at around 14 per cent.

IGNOU vice chancellor Prof M Aslam stressed the need to overcome the barriers that have been created between the conventional and distance education system which, he felt, are in fact complementary to each other.

He said IGNOU will soon establish its study centre in Zambian Open University for imparting MBA programmes.

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