Ground Reality

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...

Carrying forward his agenda of turning country’s universities into temples of excellence, Eminent Academician and newly appointed  President of the Association of Universities (AIU) Prof PB Sharma has embarked on a massive exercise of interacting with Vice chancellors of various educational bodies to  redraw contours of action plans to accomplish the cherished goal. A simpleton by nature, Dr Sharma who himself is the VC of an International level Private University in Gurugram, says he will work in close tandem with VCs to transform India’s Higher education to serve the cause of high employ-ability, continued contribution to the new knowledge creation, advancing frontiers of Knowledge, engaging into technology incubation, innovations and new product its development creating startups and new age enterprises in plenty. Focused on his vision, Dr.Sharma told this blogger that they would strive hard to achieve these goals with sincere committing to solving pressing pro...