Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: Indian Institute of Public Administration, J&K Regional Branch, organized a brain storming session on “Higher Education at Crossroads” as a prelude conference on the theme chosen by the IIPA for Annual Members Conference being held later this month at New Delhi.
The panelists made key observations on Higher Education which is at crossroads and emphasized the need for greater autonomy and financial independence of institutes in higher education. They proposed that to make higher education vibrant in today’s knowledge and information based society, the system must become global competitive so as to enable the youth to compete at the global level. “Also the system should be capable to creating knowledge which can be put into practice and has social relevance. The focal agenda of Higher Education is the holistic development of students’ personality,” they added.
The speakers were also of the opinion that there was a need to change the paradigm of research to include more fields based and socially relevant studies which can help to put the research findings into practice. There is also the need to establish stronger public private partnerships and to integrate foundational and secondary education with the higher education, they added.
The speakers, who were invited to deliberate on the subject, included Prof Lokesh Verma, Prof Mubarak Singh, Prof Renu Nanda, Prof Darshana Sharma, Prof Rajiv Rattan , Dr J S Warwal, Dr J N Baliya, Maj Gen (Retd) S K Sharma, Dr Kaushal Smotra, Dr Madhu Singh and Prof Twinkle Suri.
The function was attended by representatives of public and private institutes of higher education, members of IIPA and civil society.
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