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Tamil Nadu
By Our Special Correspondent
Addressing a national conference on `development of higher education under globalisation', Dr. Nigavekar explained the strategies that were being worked out to address the existing drawbacks in the system, especially in governance of institutions. "We need to make colleges to accept both credibility and accountability of their own students. A group is looking into the statute changes that are required to allow the colleges to provide degrees. An autonomous college could provide the degree, while the university, under which the institution comes, could separately or at the back of the same degree give the college's rating by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). In the case of non-autonomous colleges that have undergone the accreditation process, the degree would have the name of the college, and its NAAC rating. In the case of colleges, which are not autonomous and have not undergone NAAC accreditation process, the degree would be given with the detail that the institution has not undergone the process. This would make the degree credible and accountable." The meet has been organised by the Association of Managements of Private Colleges and the Indian Colleges Forum. Dr. Nigavekar said the UGC also planned to start identifying some of the better performing autonomous institutions and name them as colleges with potential for excellence, which would get bulk funding from the Commission. A meeting of all Secretaries to State Government would be held later this month to work out the strategies to improve the quality of higher education. In his keynote address, the educationist, V.C. Kulandaiswamy, criticised the governments for withdrawing from the higher education sector, as it could lead to major social problems. State secretariats were not interested in giving autonomy to colleges, the teacher posts were not being filled and higher education grants were being treated as a non-merit subsidy. The Government still had a major role, and private players could only supplement this. Even here, the Government should not directly control education, but regulate through its autonomous agencies. Pointing out that the market for international education was a vast one, as nearly 7.2 millions students would be moving around from one country to another by 2025, he said the present rigid rules, administrative systems and courses had to change. He also explained some of the areas under the new WTO and GATS regime, which needed to be debated by academics before the Government decided on signing or not signing the agreement.
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