MADURAI: Colleges in south India do not use the University Grants Commission funds enough as compared to their counterparts in the north. But 60 per cent of the best institutions that have been awarded A and above grades were in the south, UGC member Xavier Alphonse has said.
He was addressing principals and heads of departments of autonomous colleges at Yadava College here on Friday. He explained the salient features of the ‘UGC’s 11th Five Year Plan.’
The UGC would concentrate on important areas such as inclusiveness in higher education — reaching out to rural poor, urban poor and tribal poor — and increasing student enrolment from 104 lakhs to 229 lakhs. It would grant funds for developing colleges after taking into account factors such as relevance of the institutions to the community.
“The college should go to the community and not otherwise.”
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