Speaking at the national conference on Making India, a global hub for higher education, Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani made several important announcements related to higher education, education policy and AICTE reforms.
The event saw the introductory speech made by President, EPSI, and founder and chancellor of VIT University, Vellore Dr G Viswanathan. Speaking on the inaugural session Dr Viswanathan raised some concerns.
“Our visionary prime Minister has set forth a campaign of Make In India which we believe can happen with quality education especially good higher education. International business communication has seen a rise and at present we have about 45 lakh international students in the world and our share is less than one percent. We’ve about 38,000 colleges and 750 universities, we are still not able to attract enough number of foreign students as the affiliating system needs revisions. It is high time that the affiliating systems need to see reforms,” Viswanathan said.