The expansion of universities is crucial to improve higher education and urged these institutions to reflect on how to stop 'brain drain', said Sisodia in a conclusive two-day meeting deliberated upon the theme of ‘holistic and multidisciplinary education with technology’.
The deputy chief minister stressed upon the difference between education and human resource development. Addressing the panellists of the meet, he appreciated NEP 2020’s policy stance of renaming Human Resource Development Ministry as Education Ministry. “Human Resource Development is a mere tool of education but it is not the foundation of education,” he said.
The role and responsibility of an education person is to ensure that their children are not considered merely as tools or instruments for the world but as thriving human beings, he said.
Sisodia on Tuesday concluded the North Zone Vice Chancellor’s Meet organized by Association of Indian Universities and hosted by Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University.
Talking about higher education in the post-COVID and post-NEP world, Sisodia said that there are certain challenges that Universities and educators alike face in the current landscape of Indian education. The first challenge pertained to the challenge of quantity. “We introduced several missions and laws such as Right to Education. We ensured that all children attend school. We created a bumper crop of school graduates. But then the child asks – Where should I go? What should I do now? We do not have answers.”
Sisodia urged Universities to think out of the box to find solutions for the large quantities and lack of enough space for the students in higher education. Pointing towards the second challenge of quality, Sisodia alluded to fixing minimum standards for quality education. “The bottom line is that we can say that students who graduate from our universities and colleges stand at some level of achievement. We cannot decide the maximum success a child can reach, but we can decide the minimum limits for quality education. We should guarantee minimum levels of education”
Sisodia exhorted the Universities to establish their name in the domains of research and innovation. He urged the Vice Chancellors of universities to talk about research and entrepreneurship in your convocation that after graduating our students created jobs for 2000 people.