On
National Education Day (11 Nov 2011), the Department of Education, University
of Calicut, organized a National Seminar on Quality Concerns in Education.
Prof.(Dr.)
Raveendran P.C, Pro Vice Chancellor of University of Calicut in his inaugural address said:
·
Changes have to happen if our students
are to become capable of
competing in the global job
market.
·
e-governance of educational institutions have to be undertaken for better
management of institutions.
·
Campuses should be made wi-fi, where information is easily available.
The focus should be on converting information into knowledge and that knowledge should be used for research.
·
There is a need for a research monitoring forum too.
From
the Key note address by Prof.(Dr.) KKN Kurup, Former Vice Chancellor,
University of Calicut:
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All said and done, we need to admit that
one cause of terrorism is that
resources are not equally
distributed.
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Education should not be seen as a product, but a process for benefit of society.
·
Quality of education is related to many aspects of life- social milieu,
social environment, Economics etc.
From
the felicitation offered by Prof.(Dr.) Laser , Member Syndicate
·
The potential of our students
have often been appreciated...Our primary education system is excellent,
but there are shortcomings in our secondary education.
·
We have to find out why our
students are not good when they have to compete globally... We need not re-invent
things ...Why not accept the curriculum of foreign countries... adopt what
others are doing. In Science perhaps
infrastructure is essential..but in case of Social science it should be
feasible.
·
We need to make competition an essential aspect of education.
From
the felicitation offered by Prof. (Dr.) M.S.Talawar, of Bangalore University,
during the Valedictory session:
·
It is a pity that not a single university in India comes under the top
100 universities...Forty universities of
our neighbouring country, China finds a place in the top 100 universities!
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Quality we need to admit is a relative term. “ It is my personal
conviction that educability, employability and adaptability are the three most
essential indicators for quality”.
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It is worth recalling what was once quoted in the NPE 2006: “ A teacher should teach and a student should learn".
I shall
quote two Nobel Prize winning authors for the reader to ponder on:
"It
is because modern Education is
so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results.
The wish to preserve the past rather than the hope of creating the future
dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young." - Bertrand Russell
"You are in the process of being
indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of Education that is not a system of indoctrination. We are sorry,
but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of
current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest
look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught
by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought
laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you
who are more robust and individual than others, will be encouraged to leave and
find ways of educating yourself-educating your own judgement. Those that stay
must remember, always and all the time, that they are being moulded and
patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this society."- Doris Lessing
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