This is the way to go

Updated on: Monday, February 22, 2010

Besides highlighting his prime concern of making school education cater to the practical needs of students, Union HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal wants investment and research to take over in colleges to empower the country to inch closer to developed economies. “Investment in education is the key to the creation of knowledge, which will in turn translate into wealth,” he said, while speaking at an FICCI Ladies Organisation meeting in Delhi. “The government wants to bring in a new higher education regime under which new universities will be given recognition once they create facilities for research and innovation,” he said.

The Minister emphasised the need for bringing a new higher education regime under which universities will be given recognition once they have created facilities for research and innovation to ensure quality in education. He said the HRD Ministry is willing to give university status to colleges, if they can generate wealth by necessary human resource development programmes, multi-disciplinary teaching methods, a curriculum to promote research, and by providing better infrastructure to students.

Sibal also underlined the need for changing the examination system and teaching methods from rote learning to a non-textbook-based system, which would allow the child to think. “The government is also planning to have a policy framework to develop school level infrastructure wherein after school hours, the physical assets can be utilised by the private sector for skill development and vocational training. The funds thus created can be utilised for the school’s further development,” said Sibal.

Sibal said the government gives huge priority to education and allocation will not be ‘disappointing’ even this time. Maintaining that the implementation of the Right to Education Act would be a challenge, he said without active participation and monitoring by the states it would be difficult to maintain

This is the way to go

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