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Improve quality of higher education: VC

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Pondicherry Dec. 17. The vice-chancellor of the Pondicherry University, V. T. Patil, today underscored the need for improving the quality of higher education to meet the challenges of globalisation.

Inaugurating a one-day seminar and workshop on quality and excellence in higher education, sponsored by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in collaboration with the Pondicherry Education Department here, Mr. Patil said unless the policy makers functioned in tune with the emerging scenario, it would be difficult for the higher education institutions to compete with the West.

He lauded the NAAC for its role in infusing competitive edge to higher education by adopting assessment and accreditation programme. The workshop was meant to create awareness among heads of colleges about the relevance and importance of the assessment and accreditation of the institutions in Pondicherry.

Mr. Patil said it was better that all affiliated colleges got the accreditation soon as this would strengthen the institutions in the Union Territory.

K. Aludiapillai, former vice-chancellor of the Madurai Kamaraj University, said just as one would have a medical check up to ascertain one's physical fitness, the NAAC accreditation was to institutions. They could know where they were standing and what was their strength and shortcomings. With only 27 higher educations in the Union Territory, it would be easy for them to go in for accreditation.

M OH F Shah Jahan, MLA and chairman of the Pondicherry State Wakf Board, said India needed to make a quantum jump in the quality of education. Knowledge-based education was the need of the hour. With the participation of foreign institutions in educational field emerging a certainty, there should be toning up of quality of higher education in the country. The Secretary to Education, M. Sathiavathy, said the deadline for the institutions to get the assessment and accreditation of NAAC was December 31, 2003. She thanked the NAAC for coming forward to hold the workshop.

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