The Talk
Education is what primarily sets apart a society, a nation from every other. The challenge before the country is to create, very quickly, world class educational institutions and ensure a sustained place in the global world.
What is meant by globalisation and what are the fresh set of challenges before the universities in India in terms training young minds with diverse kinds of skills to encounter an increasingly competitive world? What is the state of the universities in India – with reference to infrastructure, faculty and processes of admissions?
What do we do about the prevailing indiscipline and political interference in the functioning of the universities? Do we need private universities or public –private partnerships in the universities?
What are the need of reforms and regulatory mechanisms in higher education that can help India in building better academic standards?
The speaker, a former – and highly successful – vice chancellor of one of India’s premier universities dealt with these issues in this meeting.
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