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Higher Education Minister R. Bindu has said that Kerala is transforming its higher acquisition strategy from a teaching-centric exemplary to 1 driven by research, innovation and societal relevance.
Inaugurating the Kerala Higher Education Expo 2026 successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Monday, she added that the State aspired for a cognition nine rooted successful societal justice, inclusive improvement and nationalist good, that is chiseled from profit-driven Western models. She besides exhorted institutions to make applicable cognition and solutions that straight code societal challenges.
The expo is portion of the National Research Conference that got underway astatine the Government College for Women present nether the aegis of the Higher Education Department and the Kerala State Higher Education Council (KSHEC).
Emphasising the relation of research, Dr. Bindu said higher acquisition institutions should absorption connected processing products, processes and services beneficial to cardinal sectors specified arsenic agriculture, health, manufacture and biology protection. The probe outcomes, she added, indispensable amended the prime of beingness of radical successful Kerala.
According to the Minister, the authorities has identified probe and improvement arsenic a foundational pillar of higher acquisition reforms and semipermanent socio-economic transformation. Over the past decade, particularly successful the past 5 years, Kerala has undertaken a paradigmatic displacement by placing research, innovation and cognition translation astatine the halfway of higher education.
She besides stressed that sustained nationalist concern has been made successful probe infrastructure and quality superior done inter-university Centres of Excellence, RUSA-supported infrastructure projects and laboratory modernisation programmes. Besides, probe endowment has been strengthened done schemes specified arsenic the Chief Minister’s Nava Kerala Postdoctoral Fellowship and Kairali Research Awards.
Five translational probe centres are besides being acceptable up crossed assemblage campuses to person basal probe into applications successful healthcare, agriculture, biology sustainability and emerging technologies.
Kuvempu University Vice Chancellor Sharath Ananthamurthy, who was the impermanent of honour, called for a cardinal rethinking of cognition accumulation successful higher education, and stressed that learning indispensable service societal justness alternatively than firm monopolies.
Reflecting connected the translation of acquisition since the post-General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT) era, Prof. Ananthamurthy said that the planetary displacement towards cognition societies had often resulted successful the corporatisation of learning. Knowledge accumulation progressively became a instrumentality for a fewer almighty entities to person ideas into monopolised products, and thereby, distancing acquisition from its societal purpose, helium pointed out.
Presiding implicit the inaugural session, KSHEC Vice Chairperson Rajan Gurukkal, called for a “methodological revolution” successful State laboratories. Research, helium opined, indispensable determination beyond world output to impact-oriented translation.
Principal Secretary (Higher Education) Sharmila Mary Joseph, KSHEC Member Secretary Rajan Varughese, Director of Technical Education Jayaprakash P., Government College for Women Principal Umajyothi V. and KSHEC Registrar Beenarani G.S. besides spoke connected the occasion.
