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PACKAGE ANNOUNCED FOR IMPROVING THE
FINANCIAL, ACADEMIC AND INFRASTRUCTURAL HEALTH OF
UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA on 8 March 2018
at New Delhi
The Central Agency to Mitigate
and Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS) while announcing the
package for different types of universities in the country
offered many types of incentives including take over, merger and
collaborative support by way of providing admissions, placement,
marketing, financial, academic and image building for the
universities under the Central / State Governments as well as
Deemed and State Private Sector Universities besides the
Institute of National Importance presently numbering more than
925.
Dr. Tanuja Trivedi
Informing the
Members of the Press and Media, the CEO of the Central Agency to
Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS), a Division of
the Confederation of Indian Universities (CIU), Dr. Tanuja
Trivedi said that the “Central Agency to Mitigate and Prevent
University Sickness (CAMPUS)” has been established under the
aegis of the Confederation of Indian Universities (CIU) for
mitigating and preventing the disastrous impacts of sickness of
educational institutions in general and of the universities in
particular by designing a new master plan and a paradigm for
ensuring success of tertiary level institutions with full
guidance regarding educational, administrative, financial,
regulatory, planning, promotional and entrepreneurial activities
for enabling the existing and the proposed university ventures
to become a world class university.
She further added that the recent survey has revealed that out
of the 900+ universities in our country including the Central,
State, Deemed and Private Universities besides the Institutions
of national importance located in different States, more than
100 universities have become sick or indisposed either because
of financial constraints or because of the lack of students,
educational delivery system, facilities and infrastructure
including problems and limitations relating to obsolete
curriculum and untrained faculty members.
She was of the view that in order to achieve the milestone for
making many world class universities in our country, it is
essential that we start greening the ivory towers and design the
improved curriculum for need based vocational and employment
centric courses to ensure that the students coming out
successful out of these universities become job givers, rather
than job seekers and that they solve all problems related to
peacelessness, poverty, insurgency, unemployment, pollution and
population explosion.
Stressing the need for priority to be given to the education
sector, she elaborated that education is the largest single
activity in the world, involving over 2000 million students and
100 million teachers at all levels, not counting millions of
others in educational support activities. But its importance
stems not merely from its size but also from its role as
institutionalized knowledge - the principal repository,
producer, disseminator and transmission belt of all forms of
knowledge.
She recalled that the most significant feature of education for
mother earth protection in the 21st century is not so much what
the French call li explosion scolaire (i pupil explosioni), but
the knowledge explosion, which has expanded the catchment areas
of learning so fast that it takes only a decade now for the
state of the art in any field to become obsolete.
She felt that as many students leave or graduate from the
college unprepared to meet the demands of the society, this
problem has a ripple effect throughout the society. Students who
are not prepared to become responsible, productive citizens
become a burden to the society. These students, products of an
education system that does not focus on quality, increase social
welfare costs. They impact the criminal justice system, they are
not prepared to meet the needs of the next generations, and,
most importantly, they are citizens who feel alienated from
society. Education must undergo a paradigm shift. Old norms and
beliefs must be challenged. Educators must help students develop
the skills they need to compete in a global economy. The
universities will never become sick if these aspects are kept in
mind.
She invited all such universities to contact the Central Agency
to Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS) as it has
developed technologies for preventing all types of sickness of
universities for the benefit of all university level
institutions.
She finally opined that the package envisaged by the Central
Agency to Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS)
includes all types of assistance, advice and guidance including
collaboration and support by way of enerzising the universities
after diagnosing the weaknesses and limitations through takeover
and/or merger besides providing admissions, placement, image
building and marketing support.
She also highlighted that the Central Agency to Mitigate and
Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS) under the support of the
resource persons at CIU has developed more than ten lakhs (one
million) pages of Instructional Materials and Curriculum for the
benefit of the Central, State, Deemed, Private and other types
of Universities and the Institutes of National Importance.
She hoped that the Universities desiring any support must
contact immediately in the current academic and financial year
preferably before 31 July 2018 through email : [email protected] |
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