The teachers should act as guiding lights for the students and should share their ideas to make higher education job-oriented.
The Finance, stamp, entertainment, protocol, census and higher education portfolios holder Indira Hridayesh said this while addressing a meeting of principals of State colleges held at Doon University on Monday. She said that the department should work on a plan to start skill development courses to give a vocational approach to higher education.
The Minister highlighted the role of colleges in giving a constructive guidance to the students. Hridayesh said that the department should develop the syllabus based on the geographical factors of the State. During the meeting, the principals raised a demand that all the Government colleges of the State should be affiliated with only one University. On this demand the Higher education minister assured that this suggestion would be looked into by the State Government.
Speaking on the occasion the secretary higher education RK Sudhanshu said the purpose of convening a meeting of the principals of the Government colleges just a day after the meeting of Vice-Chancellors was to ensure that a road map for alleviating the higher education of the state is prepared. He added that this suggestion was given by the Higher Education Minister. Sudhanshu also emphasised a need to make the higher education job oriented so that coordination between education and livelihood is maintained.
In the meeting, the principals were unanimous in the demand for starting semester system in the under-graduate classes. They also said that the infrastructural facilities should be provided to the colleges of the State. The meeting was also attended by Additional secretary Ashok Kumar, joint secretary laxman Singh, higher education director Jagdish Prasad and others.