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Building Universities of the 21st Century in the Post-Covid World

July 10, 2020

PRESENTATION by Akshai Aggarwal at the International Education Summit for Digital Transformation*, Geneva, 10 th July 2020 Mr. Malcolm Johnson , Deputy Secretary-General , ITU and Prof N K Goyal, President CMAI, It is a privilege for me to present before this distinguished audience, the work done by the Research Project, led by me, on working out the structure of Universities of the 21 st century. My consulting work also pertains to the short-term changes required to cope with Covid-19 and I am working on the Post-Covid Universities. This is a UNIQUE work, which can help the University systems both · in the developing world as well as · in the developed world. The objectives are: · to provide quality higher education to the young on an inclusive and equitable basis · to promote life-long learning · to ensure that the 4 th industrial revolution does not flounder due to scarcity of properly trained and ski

May 30, 2020

TRANSFORMING THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA 1.0 Introduction : In 2018, enrolment in Higher Education (HE) in India surpassed that in China, thus making India’s HE system the largest in the world. T he enrolment in schools in India is much larger than that in China. India’s GER is less than 30% as compared with about 50% of China. Therefore, unlike in China, the sector of HE will continue to expand during the next decade. The products of our HE system are managing IBM, Microsoft, Google and many other reputed companies. Graduates from our HE system are doing creditable work at many reputed companies of India like ISRO and L&T. The higher education system in India consists of the following: 1.1. Central Govt Institutions: Government of India (GOI) has established many great institutions including 16 IITs and 13 IIMs. In 2017, MHRD decided to establish 20 world class research universities. In addition, other departments of GOI also have reputed inst

November 30, 2017

UNDER-EMPLOYMENT and UNEMPLOYMENT of graduates from Technological Colleges If our graduates are under-employed or unemployed, there can be only two reasons: (i) Our Technological Colleges and universities are turning out in-adequately trained graduates: If our students and professors decide to work hard to see that every one of the graduates is well-equipped with knowledge and skills, this problem can start getting solved within two years. (ii) There are some fields in which our enterprises are able to meet the needs of our nation completely and the enterprises do not need any expansion: This is unlikely to be true since if we want to offer a good quality of life to our citizens, the needs should be so large in every field that the nation may have to work hard for a few decades before we reach a stage of saturation. India’s share in the markets of the world is of the order of 2%. The markets of the world are dominated by China even for products, which requi

October 31, 2017

Business Studies & Ease of Doing Business A great learning exercise and immersion study area for MBA students Technological education is required to prepare the students for both design and implementation of products. Tech education in India is said to be theoretical in that a graduate from a technological university may not be able to use his skills to develop a new product. Many experiments of collaboration with industries and businesses in India are being made for the purpose with the hope that a better quality of education can be offered to the young. For example in Business Studies, at GTU, immersion studies was included in every subject in 2014 and the students were required to bring their work, at the end of every semester, for an intensive scrutiny. In 2014, at least two MBA Colleges, affiliated with GTU, were asked to study each of the topics for ranking on Ease of Doing Business by World Bank and by WEF. Some of the papers by the Professors from these C

September 27, 2017

A Message for the Educationists at Universities: Are we ready to accept the Challenge? How our society copes with the Fourth Industrial Revolution will depend on the response of our educational institutions — #PresidentKovind At Davos, in Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2017, there was a unanimous view that the world is going to face a grave shortage of technologically competent young persons as the world moves ahead into the 4 th Industrial Revolution. Over the past two centuries, during the three industrial revolutions, automation reduced human drudgery, increased employment-to-population ratio and every revolution led to a life of dignity and comfort for a larger part of the human society, in spite of setbacks in many parts of the world due to colonialism. After every one of the three revolutions played out, it was found that the levels of education and technical skill of the countries, which participated actively in the Revolution, had increased s

September 22, 2017

Our Universities, Our Leaders and Foreign Universities Recently the media in India has reported about two events at ‘ University of California, Berkeley’ and at the ‘ Center for International Security Studies, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University’. At these events, the Vice-President of Congress party spoke to a group of students and Faculty Members about the political issues in India . “720 years back, the ‘President’ of the world’s largest university, which attracted scholars from far and wide, was informed by his assistant that many horsemen were riding towards the university. The President waived his assistant off by saying that every horseman knew that he had to respect the university and that he should enter the university on foot, after tying the horse at the gate of the university. Within a few hours, there was a slaughter of more than 10,000 scholars and 3,000 Faculty Members by the 500 horsemen, led by Bakhtiar Khilji,