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As Unemployment is   assuming alarming proportions in India, Eminent Academician Prof. PB Sharma,President of Association of Indian Universities (AIU) has asserted that new education policy, being framed now, should be targeted to boost employability of professional education, from currently 15-20 % to 120% on one hand and ensuring relevance of research and innovations to the needs of the society and industry at home on the other. He says it should also meet the regional and global aspirations, adding “We need to align India's Education Policy to National Development to pay attention to creating “Advantage India” from the efforts we invest in education and research and make education a powerful vehicle of societal transformation”.     Unfortunately, the goal of successive education policies in the past revolved around increasing access in the name of increased Gross Enrolment Ratio, GER, in higher education and inclusive education being grossly misundersto...

     FIRED by valuating hopes to bring palpable change in quality of education in country’s institutions of higher education, Noted Academician and Newly appointed President of the Association of Indian Universities (AIU) Prof PB Sharma has expressed grave concerns over falling standards of education in some institutions and said regulatory system must be made robust to bridle growth of engineering colleges as “Chemist Shops “. His concerns spiked after a report in a national daily recently that more than fifty per cent of seats in the private engineering colleges remained vacant this year in the wake of demand and supply gap. “Unplanned and uncontrolled growth undermines both the quality and standards and makes regulatory bodies redundant,  Dr Sharma said after the said media report. Engineering education in the country seems to have reached the saturation point with around 54 per cent of undergraduate and postgraduate seats in the private e...