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IT and HRD Minister Nara Lokesh connected Monday said universities played a pivotal relation successful gathering a cognition nine and exhorted Vice-Chancellors to enactment arsenic ambassadors of the reforms initiated by the government.
Addressing the Conference of Vice-Chancellors of Public Universities present arsenic the main guest, Mr. Lokesh said curricula indispensable beryllium updated regularly to stay applicable and industry–academia linkages strengthened. He observed that innovation and startup ecosystems successful State universities were anemic and warned that outcomes would autumn abbreviated of expectations unless institutions acquired a competitory edge.
The Minister said Vice-Chancellors should give much clip to medication portion remaining alert to issues that could adversely impact world excellence, and called for greater reliance connected data-driven decision-making. He stressed the request for fiscal self-reliance done progressive engagement with alumni networks, citing the illustration of Andhra University alumni heading respective Fortune 500 companies. The syllabus, helium added, should beryllium overhauled periodically to marque students future-ready.
“The authorities is committed to processing world-class nationalist universities by protecting their autonomy and recognising talent,” Mr. Lokesh said.
Presiding implicit the conference, A.P. Governor and Chancellor of the universities S. Abdul Nazeer said nationalist universities indispensable amended standards to unafraid places successful the apical 100 of the National Institutional Ranking Framework. At present, helium noted, Andhra University was the lone 1 among the State’s 25 universities to diagnostic successful the apical 50, portion Acharya Nagarjuna University ranked wrong the apical 100.
Mr. Nazeer emphasised greater absorption connected R and D, observing that research, innovation and patents acted arsenic maturation engines and fostered a vibrant world environment. Teaching, helium said, should promote creativity alternatively than rote learning, with owed accent connected agrarian and tribal students.
Education should not beryllium constricted to enrolment alone, helium said, expressing interest that the State’s literacy complaint was beneath the nationalist average, according to immoderate reports, adjacent though the Gross Enrolment Ratio stood astatine 36.5% compared with the nationalist mean of 28.4%.
Stating that the aboriginal of Andhra Pradesh depended connected strengthening quality resources, the Governor expressed anticipation that the league would travel up with applicable solutions to the problems confronting the acquisition sector.
