CHENNAI: Observing that higher education was necessary for the progress and development of the country, Vice-President M Venkaiah
Naidu on Tuesday said the quality of higher professional education remained a major concern and called for constant reforms.
Delivering the ninth Convocation of Vel’s Institute of Science, Technology and Advanced Studies (VISTAS) here, he said the Constitution recognizes Right to Education a Fundamental Right and makes it incumbent upon the ‘State to provide free and compulsory education to all children of the age of six to 14 years’.
But higher education was equally essential ‘to develop the scientific temper, humanism and the spirit of inquiry and reform’ which were envisaged as the fundamental duties of the citizens, he said.
”Therefore, quality higher education is necessary for the progress and development of our country”, he said.
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