Teachers’ contributions are of great national esteem, and the society at large looks at how much they perform in enlightening the nation, Sushma Yadav, member of University Grants Commission, has said.
Addressing a congregation of college and university teachers at the Kerala State meet of the Unnata Vidyabhyasa Adhyapaka Sangham, higher education wing of Akhil Bhratiya Rashtriya Saikshik Mahasangh, she said the world had always acknowledged the role of teachers in the making of civilization and India’s teachers should come up to international standard.
Teachers must devote more time to reading and research for this, she said. On the various anomalies that afflicted collegiate and university education, she said the UGC was looking into such complaints. The UGC would review its recent decision to terminate the PhD guide-ship of the retiring teachers and the age limit in this regard would be raised to 65, she said.
Manoj Sinha, national secretary of the higher education wing of the Mahasangh, lashed out at the Congress-communist nexus that had been vitiating India’s educational sector since the time of Nur-ul-Hazan as Education Minister.