Kurukshetra University on Tuesday hosted a meeting of senior functionaries of higher education in Haryana, in which Vice Chancellors, Registrars, Deans and other senior officials of the Universities, Principals and teacher representatives of colleges were present.
Jyoti Arora, Principal Secretary, Higher Education, Haryana expressed said there is an urgent need to improve the quality, pass percentage and operational efficiency and for this she called upon ideas.
The important issues for improving higher education in Haryana were identified as curricular reforms, examination system, affiliation, Governance, research and innovation. The course curicullum taught to the students should be relevant and dynamic and be updated in a timely manner. The issue of delays in declaration of examination results needed immediate attention.
In view of most of the universities, which were earlier residential universities having become affiliating universities, the roadmap for developing a policy on the same was deliberated upon.
The youth of Haryana needs to be made employable and the issue of placement of the students was discussed in detail. Developing industry academia linkages to improve the employability of the students was also deliberated upon.