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| Higher education set for overhaul in JK |
SRINAGAR, MAY 17: Minister for Information
Technology, Technical Education and Higher Education, Molvi Imran Reza Ansari
today urged educationists and academics to provide quality education at all
levels.
Speaking at a maiden review
meeting of higher education department, the minister said asked the
participating principals of various Degree Colleges of Kashmir region to help
in overhauling higher sector across the State.
“I want that the Principals other
than the infrastructure must focus on providing quality education and most
importantly peace has to be maintained on the campuses,” he said.
“Nothing can be done when there is
no peace inside the college campus and we won’t be able to focus on the quality
education,” he said.
He said that everything can’t be blamed on the situation.
“We should stop linking everything
to the situation. This is the only way forward for us. We must take the
ownership and run the colleges and not let the outside forces to run it for
you,” Minister asked the
Principals.
Ansari said that the government
has prioritized education with the launch of numerous reformative measures in
this regard.
“A discernible transformation is
being witnessed in all parameters of education with a notable development in
infrastructure and related facilities in educational institutions of the state,” he said. He emphasized the need
for involving all stakeholders, including parents, teachers and local
legislators, in further streamlining of the vital sector on which the onus of
building a strong and developed nation lies.
“If we have to transform our
colleges and universities into world class institutions, it must safeguard the
interests of young researchers and scholars and students,” he said.
“I know in our State, higher
education sector is faced with many problems. But we have to work together and
transform this vital sector of knowledge,’ he added.
Ansari stressed for preparing a
mechanism for the students of the rural areas by which they could compete with
students of urban areas. “There is a need of collective
efforts and a well-knit strategy to further add to the standards of curricular
and extracurricular activities, especially in rural areas,” he added.
The Minster said that in order to
make remarkable impressions on the ground, all the stakeholders and prominent
educationists must come forward to help the government in evolving the higher
education sector.
He interacted with the Principals
and sough their suggestions over overhauling the education sector. He said that
he has been receiving a plethora of responses from intelligentsia and
Government would launch some substantial steps to bring changes on the ground.
He asked the Principals and
teachers that government would provide all possible help to them if they wanted
to go on any academic refreshing courses. “Academic collaborations must be done with foreign institutions that can
help us bring some remarkable changes,” he said.
The meeting was also attended by
Secretary Higher Education, Javed Ahmad Khan, Director Colleges, Director,
JJKSDM, Dr Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail, Principals of the various colleges of
Kashmir among other departments.
