East zone Vice-Chancellors’ meet under the aegis of the Association of Indian Universities will take place on December 5 and 6 at the Vinoba Bhave University. Chancellor Dr Syed Ahmed will inaugurate the meet in which the VCs will discuss on improving the quality of higher education, Dr. Gurdeep Singh, VC, VBU informed on Thursday.
Professor Furqan Qamar, Secretary General of AIU informed that from east zone we have more than 80 members out of which 40 had given their consent to take part in this meet. 26 VCs have already confirmed their participation so far and we hope that this number will go up to 35 by tomorrow noon.
Professor Qamar gave a detailed account of the role and function of AIU in the field of higher education in the country. he added “Every year we use to discuss on a selected topic and this year we are going to discuss as how we can improve the quality of higher education despite several problems. After this discussion we will suggest the concerned Government departments to take initiatives.”
VC Dr. Gurdeep Singh and Professor Qamar said that over 95 per cent students in our country are getting higher education in state run universities like VBU and these universities are facing many problems. In this meet special emphasis will be on finding a way to give quality education despite the problems.
Joint secretary of AIU Dr. Veena Bhalla, Dr. Samson David and editor of AIUs magazine university news Dr. Sistla Rama Devi Pani and PVC Dr. MP Sinha were also present.