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 Airing concerns over annual drainage of Rs.100,000 crores out of country by students flying abroad for advanced studies, Association of Indian Universities (AIU) President Prof P.B Sharma implored Vice chancellors of various universities to create atmosphere of quality education at par or even better than currently offered by advanced nations across the world.     Speaking at the Roundtable of VCs of Health Science Universities at  Tirupati, Prof Sharma in his presidential address said a large number of bright students are going abroad for studies at a heavy cost while the government expenditure on education, including higher education, is barely Rs79,685.95 crore for the education sector for financial year 2017-18.  Further, of the total outlay, Rs46, 356.25 is for the school sector and the rest for higher education.  He said such a scenario has put an added responsibility on Vice Chancellors to create an environment of quality education a...

As India basked in glory of its 70 years of Independence, An eminent educationist and President of the Association of Indian Universities Prof. Pritam B Sharma  today recalled an adage “the education builds nation but poor quality education destroys the nation beyond repairs” and called for a through revisit of the country’s Education system.   He  says in the context of pledge, taken on the eve of 71st Independence day celebrations, it becomes all the more important that we seriously ponder over the quality and relevance of education for nation building. Dr sharma who is currently Vice Chancellor Amity University Gurugram said Education is not just Knowledge, it is the tripod of Knowledge, Character and Behavior. India was a great India, in fact  the Golden Eagle of the world and what we often rejoice India as the Viswa Guru,  primarily because of the value system deeply focused on practicing truth, purity, and service with aatmiyata, empathy, ...

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...