Prof. Ved Prakash

MERELY INVITING TOP FOREIGN UNIVERSITIES WON’T HELP MUCH

December 7, 2020

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 aims at promoting India as a global study destination by making quality education accessible at an affordable cost. It is presumed that through a number of such quality initiatives, India will be able to restore its role as a ‘Vishwa Guru’. It has recommended...

Why our schools need a total revamp in science education

November 30, 2020

The Bengal Renaissance is as much known for its monumental contribution in exact sciences as in literature, arts and social reforms. During the period, a number of leading Indian scientists like Satyendra Nath Bose, Meghnad Saha, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Jnan Chandra Ghosh, etc, came from Bengal. These...

Why school, college reopening should not be a priority right now

November 21, 2020

Schools and colleges were shut down across the globe during the first quarter of the year in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Later on, some countries like Norway, Sweden, Denmark, France, Japan and South Korea reopened junior sections of schools as they believed that small children were less vulnerable...

Remembering Maulana Azad

November 16, 2020

Five days ago, we celebrated the thirteenth National Education Day to commemorate the 133rd birth anniversary of the first Education Minister of independent India, Mohiuddin Ahmad Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, popularly known as Maulana Azad. Since 2008, we have been celebrating it each year on 11 November as a mark...

Let foreign universities enter India but with proper regulation

November 9, 2020

Foreign universities have been attractive destinations for Indian students from the pre-Independence era for a variety of reasons. A large number of architects who laid the foundation of modern India had their education from foreign institutions of higher learning. Prominent amongst them, who turned out to be political and academic...

Why DU’s ad hoc teachers must be regularised

November 2, 2020

The university system has been suffering from an acute shortage of faculty for long. Even premier universities are not free from this domestic hazard. Some of them are even operating with almost half of the sanctioned strength. Though one might attribute it to the failure of the system at producing...

Desirous of jobs but devoid of skills

October 26, 2020

The traditional Indian way of human resource development, particularly in vocational sectors, has largely been non-formal in character. Farmers, craftsmen, potters, weavers, masons, carpenters, carpet makers, toy makers, goldsmiths, cobblers, painters, and a host of other such skilled workers learn their crafts and acquire knowledge and skills by participating from...

Needed, a robust teacher training programme

October 19, 2020

It is known that the country did not have a well-established system of teacher preparation at the time of Independence. Realising this, the first Education Minister, the esteemed Abul Kalam Azad, had said that there was a need to establish an Institute of Education to deal with teacher preparation. This...

Why vocationalisation of education is essential

October 12, 2020

Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation, was a great champion of skill-based education. His thoughts on skill education have been unswervingly resonated in almost every single policy document brought out by the successive governments in the post-Independence period. One of the major recommendations of the National Education Policy (NEP)...

Leadership in governance of higher education

October 6, 2020

In the report of the University Education Commission, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan had emphatically mentioned that only the people of eminence must be appointed as the Vice-Chancellors. The issue of governance in education has been a genuine concern from the time of pre-Independence. The subject is considered so significant that it has...

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