{"id":206871,"date":"2022-09-20T19:47:36","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=206871"},"modified":"2022-09-20T19:47:36","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:17:36","slug":"can-indian-universities-and-colleges-take-up-the-task-of-producing-workers-for-the-knowledge-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/can-indian-universities-and-colleges-take-up-the-task-of-producing-workers-for-the-knowledge-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Indian universities and colleges take up the task of producing workers for the knowledge society?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>Can Indian universities and colleges take up the task of producing workers for the knowledge society?\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0The Indian Express<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a020th<\/sup> September 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS 2 \u2013 Issues related to education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance:\u00a0<\/strong>problems associated with higher educational institutions and ways to solve the problems.<\/strong><\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>The University Grants Commission has recently notified its guidelines for transforming Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) into autonomous institutions.<\/p>\n

This will help to transform colleges to either multidisciplinary universities or degree-awarding autonomous institutions by 2035.<\/p>\n

It is based on the objectives of the National Education Policy 2020.<\/p>\n

However, this transformation will be not enough for improving the education in HEIs and there is more required.<\/p>\n

What is the current situation of Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

According to the Global employability surveys<\/strong>, less than 10 Indian institutions are in the top 500.<\/p>\n

Another survey states that there are a large number of unemployable graduates.<\/p>\n

What are the problems associated with Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in<\/strong> India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Poor teaching methods that are not in line with the relevant skills required by students for employment.<\/p>\n

Higher educational institutions in India are mostly state-funded. Thus, they do not suffer in terms of resources when they hire poor quality faculty or when the selected faculty does not upgrade their skills.<\/p>\n

UGC has introduced multiple mechanisms such as grading systems, made financial grants dependent on grades obtained in order to improve the condition of educations in HEIs.<\/p>\n

However, due to its non-binding nature, Universities are not prevented from free-riding on the success of other linked universities.<\/p>\n

Why is ensuring accountability of HEIs utmost important now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEP emphasizes that higher educational institutions should become autonomous. But, there is no mechanism available that can ensure accountability.<\/p>\n

However, quasi market accountability is present in the market in the form of competition through the Academic Bank of Credits program, Edtech companies, digital learning providers, employer schemes and industry bodies.<\/p>\n

Now the monopoly of traditional institutions over content delivery and acting as quality signaling agencies, is on the decline.<\/p>\n

This competition will make institutions accountable to learners for not delivering quality educations. Further, this accountability will make it difficult for universities to ask for funds from the government.<\/p>\n

Also, formal institutions of learning blocks the free adaptation of learning due to institutional rigidities due to institutional rigidities.<\/p>\n

What should be the course of action?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The mode of appointments of teachers in universities has to be re-examined so that universities recruit the best possible candidates. The mechanism should be made binding. If universities do not follow the guidelines, then proper action should be taken against them.<\/p>\n

knowledge creation and upgradation must be made participatory. HEIs must adopt an \u201cOpen-Source strategy<\/strong>\u201d where they can source expertise from different people or experts.<\/p>\n

The UGC\u2019s recent proposal of allowing educational institutions to hire experts as \u201cProfessors of Practice\u201d<\/strong> is an attempt to rectify this problem.<\/p>\n

The recruitment criteria set by HEIs can be made flexible which would allow lateral entries <\/strong>to those who have expertise in different fields.<\/p>\n

The traditional methods of teaching can be taken out of the curriculum of the institutions and more recent methods should be introduced in its place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cCan Indian universities and colleges take up the task of producing workers for the knowledge society?\u201d published in\u00a0The Indian Express\u00a0on\u00a020th September 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Issues related to education Relevance:\u00a0problems associated with higher educational institutions and ways to solve the problems. News: The University Grants Commission has… Continue reading Can Indian universities and colleges take up the task of producing workers for the knowledge society?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-206871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}