Some extracts and comments from press notice issued on Consultative Committee meeting of Indian Human Resource Development ministry (education ministry) mainly on skill development, 21st Nov. 2014, http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=111672
The Meeting of the Consultative Committee of Parliament for the Ministry of Human Resource Development was held here today. The subject of discussion for the Meeting was Skill Development in Higher Education. A presentation was made to the Members of Parliament by the Department of Higher Education on devising a framework for effective integration of skills and knowledge. The focus of the Presentation was on mainstreaming skills in Higher Education and improving social values for both skills and vocational sectors.
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The Meeting emphasised the need to remove the tag of inferior stream for vocation. The main points of discussion were; need for formal certification of providers of vocational services; promoting lateral and vertical mobility as an effort to integrate skill and vocational development with main stream general education; credit framework for seamless integration of pursuit (of) academic knowledge and practical vocational skills.
[Ravi: I very much like the thrust of the new government, including its hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, in focusing on practical skills education in the higher education sector in India. That, IMHO, is the crying need of the hour for students, parents and industry, and so, the nation as a whole.]
Many other initiatives were also taken up for discussion; National Employability Enhancement Mission (NEEM); setting up of Sector Skill Councils in the field of education; Community College Scheme; Choice based system; Credit Framework of NSQF (National Skill Qualification Framework); and Skills Assessment Matrix for Vocational Advancement of Youth (SAMVAY).
[Ravi: Sounds great! Let's see how these initiatives fructify at the ground level.]
The Members of Parliament expressed their appreciation on the steps taken by the Ministry of Human Resource Development towards skill development in Higher Education. They also expressed their concern on the quality of Higher Education and Employability in our country.
[Ravi: I like that. The members of the highest body of the Indian government, namely the parliament, being concerned about the employability of students coming out of the Indian higher education system is very, very welcome. That concern may be the key driving force in reforming Indian higher education to ensure better teaching & learning of skills that make students employable.]
Also present at the Meeting from HRD Ministry were Secretary Higher Education Shri Satya N Mohanty, Additional Secretary, Shri Amarjeet Sinha, Additional Secretary, Ms. Vrinda Sarup, and many other senior officials of the Ministry. The AICTE Chairman Shri Mantha and the UGC Chairman, Prof. Ved Prakash were also present on the occasion.
[Ravi: So the top policy makers associated with higher education were present at the meeting including the top academic administrators of India, namely the UGC (http://www.ugc.ac.in/) chairman and the AICTE (http://www.aicte-india.org/) chairman.]
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In this context, readers may be interested to see another press notice dated 17th Nov. 2014 on "India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue ", http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=111498.
An extract from it:
The India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue was held at New Delhi today. This Dialogue was Co-Chaired by Mr. Satya N. Mohanty, Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry for Human Resource Development, India and Mr. Richard Stengel, U.S.Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. This was the third Dialogue in a row, after the first one held in Washington in June 2012 and the second one in New Delhi in June 2013.
The Dialogue explored various forms of collaboration between the two countries, especially in the fields of development of community colleges, massive open online courses, student and faculty exchange and skill development. The two sides reiterated the importance of the Higher Education Dialogue to promote enhanced opportunities for student and scholar mobility and faculty collaboration between the United States and India, including our ongoing collaboration on community colleges, improvement of workforce training, expansion of research and teaching exchanges, collaboration on education technology and innovation, and industry-academia linkages in higher education.
A Meeting of Joint Task Force on Community Colleges was also held prior to the India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue and both the sides affirmed the importance of ongoing community college collaborations to meet Prime Minister Modi’s National skills development goals. The Task Force on Community Colleges discussed a plan for implementation of the recently concluded Memorandum of Understanding signed between the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
[Ravi: Overall this is positive though the first two dialogues in the past two years don't seem to have made very big impact. Perhaps this time around the impact will be stronger. I am particularly interested in the community college collaborations between US & India to meet PM Modi's national skill development goals, and (improvement in) industry-academia linkages in Indian higher education. I wonder what exactly the abovementioned recent MOU between India's AICTE and USA's AACC covers.]
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The Meeting of the Consultative Committee of Parliament for the Ministry of Human Resource Development was held here today. The subject of discussion for the Meeting was Skill Development in Higher Education. A presentation was made to the Members of Parliament by the Department of Higher Education on devising a framework for effective integration of skills and knowledge. The focus of the Presentation was on mainstreaming skills in Higher Education and improving social values for both skills and vocational sectors.
...
The Meeting emphasised the need to remove the tag of inferior stream for vocation. The main points of discussion were; need for formal certification of providers of vocational services; promoting lateral and vertical mobility as an effort to integrate skill and vocational development with main stream general education; credit framework for seamless integration of pursuit (of) academic knowledge and practical vocational skills.
[Ravi: I very much like the thrust of the new government, including its hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, in focusing on practical skills education in the higher education sector in India. That, IMHO, is the crying need of the hour for students, parents and industry, and so, the nation as a whole.]
Many other initiatives were also taken up for discussion; National Employability Enhancement Mission (NEEM); setting up of Sector Skill Councils in the field of education; Community College Scheme; Choice based system; Credit Framework of NSQF (National Skill Qualification Framework); and Skills Assessment Matrix for Vocational Advancement of Youth (SAMVAY).
[Ravi: Sounds great! Let's see how these initiatives fructify at the ground level.]
The Members of Parliament expressed their appreciation on the steps taken by the Ministry of Human Resource Development towards skill development in Higher Education. They also expressed their concern on the quality of Higher Education and Employability in our country.
[Ravi: I like that. The members of the highest body of the Indian government, namely the parliament, being concerned about the employability of students coming out of the Indian higher education system is very, very welcome. That concern may be the key driving force in reforming Indian higher education to ensure better teaching & learning of skills that make students employable.]
Also present at the Meeting from HRD Ministry were Secretary Higher Education Shri Satya N Mohanty, Additional Secretary, Shri Amarjeet Sinha, Additional Secretary, Ms. Vrinda Sarup, and many other senior officials of the Ministry. The AICTE Chairman Shri Mantha and the UGC Chairman, Prof. Ved Prakash were also present on the occasion.
[Ravi: So the top policy makers associated with higher education were present at the meeting including the top academic administrators of India, namely the UGC (http://www.ugc.ac.in/) chairman and the AICTE (http://www.aicte-india.org/) chairman.]
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In this context, readers may be interested to see another press notice dated 17th Nov. 2014 on "India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue ", http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=111498.
An extract from it:
The India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue was held at New Delhi today. This Dialogue was Co-Chaired by Mr. Satya N. Mohanty, Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry for Human Resource Development, India and Mr. Richard Stengel, U.S.Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs. This was the third Dialogue in a row, after the first one held in Washington in June 2012 and the second one in New Delhi in June 2013.
The Dialogue explored various forms of collaboration between the two countries, especially in the fields of development of community colleges, massive open online courses, student and faculty exchange and skill development. The two sides reiterated the importance of the Higher Education Dialogue to promote enhanced opportunities for student and scholar mobility and faculty collaboration between the United States and India, including our ongoing collaboration on community colleges, improvement of workforce training, expansion of research and teaching exchanges, collaboration on education technology and innovation, and industry-academia linkages in higher education.
A Meeting of Joint Task Force on Community Colleges was also held prior to the India-U.S. Higher Education Dialogue and both the sides affirmed the importance of ongoing community college collaborations to meet Prime Minister Modi’s National skills development goals. The Task Force on Community Colleges discussed a plan for implementation of the recently concluded Memorandum of Understanding signed between the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).
[Ravi: Overall this is positive though the first two dialogues in the past two years don't seem to have made very big impact. Perhaps this time around the impact will be stronger. I am particularly interested in the community college collaborations between US & India to meet PM Modi's national skill development goals, and (improvement in) industry-academia linkages in Indian higher education. I wonder what exactly the abovementioned recent MOU between India's AICTE and USA's AACC covers.]
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