National higher edn survey begins from Guj

-
Union Ministry of HRD conducting mammoth study as India embarks on building knowledge-based society
Yogesh Avasthi
The national survey of higher education by the Union Ministry of Human Resources Development kicked off from Gujarat with the nodal officers from 38 universities and institutes being briefed on the project and its execution at Gandhinagar on Tuesday.
A five-member team from the ministry told the university on the information that they need to gather from their organisations and how to go about the process. The compilation of the reports from across the country will be put on a website in about three months.
Shailesh Bhavsar, the state nodal officer in the Commissionerate of Higher Education, said the survey will be completed in Gujarat in the next 30 days. The MHRD has involved in the project National University of Education Planning, University Grants Commission, All-India Council for Technical Education, Medical Council of India, Pharmacy Council of India and several such bodies that regulate higher education in the country. National Informatics Centre, too, is part of the exercise.
The survey will be conducted in five states — Gujarat, Delhi, Assam, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh — as a pilot project. It will be extended to the rest of the country in due course, Bhavsar said.
Incidentally, the ministry had conducted a similar survey of schools across the country a few months ago. The rationale for the survey, according to a ministry document, is that it is needed as the nation embarks on building a knowledge-based society.
“With the growing size and diversity of the higher education sector, it has become necessary to develop a sound database on higher education. It is widely recognised that the existing data base on higher education is inadequate, out-of-date,” the document reads.
The government set a target of increasing the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) from the present level of about 12% to 15% by the end of the XI Five Year Plan and to 30% by 2020. To measure the efforts taken by the government to increase the GER requires complete data on higher education such as number of institutions, students, teachers, etc, document notes.
The survey is being conducted under the guidance of a task force constituted under the chairmanship of the additional secretary (higher education) in the MHRD.
A portal has been developed by NIC (URL: http://aishe.gov.in or http://aishe.nic.in) on which format for downloading and uploading of filled-in format and other survey related information is available.

COVERAGE OF INSTITUTIONS
All institutions of higher learning located in the country, which for the purpose of this survey, is defined as institution conducting programme after completing 12 years of schooling or equivalent and is of the duration of at least nine months (full time) or after completing 10 years of schooling and is of the duration of at least three years.

Popular posts from this blog

No more number game at medical colleges

-
Image
MCI to prepare database of medical, dental college teachers to stop fudging of faculty figures to evade derecognition, get more seats By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Monday, December 28, 2009  ( http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article§name=News%20-%20City§id=3&contentid=20091228200912280258113084661ace5 In a bid to stop fudging of faculty figures at medical and dental colleges facing derecognition and dramatic transfer of teachers from one institution to another before inspections, the Medical Council of India (MCI) has decided to introduce an online monitoring system. The regulatory body will prepare a detailed database of the faculty members associated with 284 medical colleges and 282 dental colleges in India and post it online. It will include names of the teachers, their employment details and the institutes they are associated with. These data will help MCI cross-check the veracity of the list of faculty members tabled before it by a medical institution du
Read more

Xavier’S BOY suspended for hitting vice-princi

-
Image
Class IX student Joel George is suspended after he attempted to slap the vice-principal on being told to go home after school was over By Yogesh Avasthi Posted On Friday, February 06, 2009 (Ahmedabad Mirror : http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=News%20-%20City&sectid=3&contentid=2009020620090206022821497cb1b567c ) A student of St Xavier’s Loyola high school attempted to slap the vice-principal following an argument, and was promptly shown the door on Wednesday. The boy ’s parents were called to the school a day later on Thursday and told he was being suspended for 10 days.Class IX student Joel George was suspended after he tried to slap Fr Raj on being rebuked for disobedience. The incident occurred after school hours around 1.45 pm when some senior students stayed back on the campus to play. Fr Raj asked the noisy bunch to leave for home since school was long over. Most of the six-seven boys playing there left, but George held his ground and arg
Read more

Fusion garba with sanedo in Swahili

-
Image
Ahmedabad-based music group is adapting sanedo lyrics in African language for the benefit of Gujaratis settled there By Yogesh Avasthi and Dhwani Pathak Posted On Monday, September 22, 2008 (Ahmedabad Mirror) Rajiv Awasthi and his troupe members rehearse their Swahili sanedos before leaving for AfricaThe garba is going Swahili. Not quite here in Ahmedabad, but in Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa.For years, music groups have been making a trip down to East Africa to cater to Gujaratis settled there. This year, they plan to perform in the local lingo, Swahili, for a larger audience. Taking the lead is N&N Entertainment Group, a city-based orchestra, which has adapted sanedo lyrics in the African language. Sanedo in anything but Gujarati is unheard of, but one city-based music group says there’s ample reason for the fusion. Rajiv Avasthi, lead singer of the group, says, “Two years ago when I first went to Tanzania, I added sanedo in garba songs. The crowds had never heard it before,
Read more