Strategy for Reforms
- 2. STRATEGIES Empowerment and accountability of academic institutions Optimum utilization of resources Mobilization of additional financial resources Establishing effective quality assurance mechanisms Networking to enhance capacity, improve quality and produce excellence Increasing access and reducing regional imbalances
- 3. EMPOWERMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY OF ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS Enhance empowerment with full accountability of institutions to select high quality Dismiss faculty who are corrupt & dishonest To grant promotions on the basis of performance & achievement
- 4. ESTABLISH AT EACH INSTITUTION AN ADVISORY BOARD Composed of alumni and a mixture of industrial, academic & civic leaders
- 5. ESTABLISH A SYSTEM FOR ENSURING EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL ACCOUNTABILITY External accountability – Accreditation – Performance audits Internal accountability – Commitment of faculty, learners, and the management – Ensure timely action for conflict resolution & maintenance of education standards – Establish a corporate management style of functioning – Responsibility / authority delegated from head of the institution to heads of departments – From heads pf department to faculty – Decision – making should be decentralized with full accountability – Clear symptoms at national, regional and institutional levels to help governance, planning and monitoring of the system
- 6. OPTIMUM UTILIZATION OF RESOURCES Most institutions are suffering from both the shortage & wastage of resources Strengthen and build an good existing institutions Increase the involvement of research institutions in higher education Review periodically the continuation of all academic programs Re-appropriate resources from non-viable programs with low employment potential to programs in high demand
- 7. INITIATIVES Establish reasonable, financially tenable student / teacher / other staff ratios, keeping in view the new knowledge based tools for teaching/ learning process and modern and simplified methods of management
- 8. UTILIZATION OF SPACE & EQUIPMENT Maximize the utilization of available space & equipment – By optimizing student intake – By adjusting the academic calendar and time table, – By introducing additional intake. – By adjusting the academic calendar and time table – By introducing R&D continuing education programs and consultant services in all institutions
- 9. DROP OUT & FAILURE Analyze all courses of large student drop out and failure rates Take necessary measures to minimize these Analyze the causes of campus unrest Minimize the wastages of human resources competencies
- 10. PRIVATE INVESTMENTS IN S&T EDUCATION Encourage larger private investments in S&T education Allow limited public funding to self-financing institutions on a competitive basis for quality improvement of teachers, curricula & research
- 11. PERIODIC ASSESSMENT Establish clear criteria for assessing success or failure of all competitive grant awards to both public & self-financing institutions
- 12. PERFORMANCE AUDIT Establish a system of compulsory periodic performance audit of all institutions
- 13. MOBILIZATION OF ADDITIONAL FINANCIAL RESOURCES Fix student fees as a significant percentage of real costs, allowing large public subsidies only to the deserving students from economically weaker families Build institutionally managed endowment funds from corporate fees, donations & consultancy fees raised Obtain funds for sponsored research projects & training programmes from government projects, multinational agencies, international development banks
- 14. REWARD SYSTEM Provide faculty fees as negotiated and agreed in the contract for externally funded projects Do not siphon the funds through false claims Do not pay to the sub-consultants over and above the contracted amount Do not divert the “letters of interest” to the external agencies without circulating to the institute’s departments
- 15. INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION Admit and train foreign students on an international competitive basis Collaborate with well-established institutions aboard in research, educational projects & programs and conferences Solicit international funding for the same Bid for consultancy projects in engineering & technology under World Bank, Asian Development Bank, UNDP, UNESCO, SIDA, CIDA, DANIDA, etc…
- 16. DEVELOP TRAINING PROGRAMMES FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Through Government of India projects under Ministry of External Affairs & Ministry of Finance Develop country specific training programmes through ITEC, SCAAP & TCS
- 17. ESTABLISH CAMPUS IN OTHER COUNTRIES Develop country specific programmes under WTO & organize Establish long-term programmes under G.A.T.S
- 18. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS Patent and market inventions and updated technologies Provide industry specific projects to the graduate students Prepare MoUs for utilizing the inventions made for industrial applications Allow on a commercial basis use of campus facilities for industries, government departments
- 19. GENERATION OF FUNDS Through alumni meet NRIs Corporate sector
- 20. ESTABLISH QUALITY ASSURANCE MECHANISMS Improve the faculty, the effectiveness of teaching and the evaluation process Develop industry relevant curricula Optimally utilize the crated infrastructure Accredit the educational programmes offered Implement transparent monitoring system Take corrective actions where necessary Implement 360 0 evaluation Co - opt adjunct professors Develop & implement guidelines for industrial consultancy Fix the ratio between external client based visits & internal physical presence for normal educational activities Recognise & reward the faculty for their achievement
- 21. RECRUIT HIGH PERFORMING QUALIFIED FACULTY Recruit the faculty based on their academic & consultancy works completed The comparative statement of academic performance of candidates should be scrutinized by the candidates If any suppression or omissions are detected, they should be corrected before interviews are conducted The selected candidates names are to be made public The service and recruitment rules should not be altered without getting the governing councils approval The assessment of the candidates should be bases on the specific procedure
- 22. SUPPORTING RESEARCH WORK OF THE FACULTY MEMBERS The research proposals of the faculty should be forwarded to the funding agencies If they are retained, the reasons for retention should be made known to the faculty The research funds are to be utilized as per the agreements The travel assistance for presenting the papers are to be paid as per the AICTE & Government Norms The travel assistance should not be reduced on flimsy reasons
- 23. ENSURE RESEARCH AUTONOMY Ensure the utilization of the individual creativity Do not compel the researchers to include unrelated faculty in the team Ensure the publications, research reports, technical notes & research papers are not tampered Implement career advancement as per the AICTE/UGC Norms
- 24. CURRICULUM REFORMS Conduct periodical reviews Develop industry specific curriculum through consortium approach Recognize the development of industrial corridors Review the development of industrial corridors Review the human resources requirements
- 25. CONDUCT INDUSTRIAL EXPOSURES Assess the advances of the modern industrial production process Facilitate industrial exposures to the faculty Constitute advisory committees for reviewing the existing curricula & suggesting the changes Collect feedback from faculty once in a year
- 26. INDUSTRIAL PARTICIPATION IN THE CURRICULUM EVALUATION & REVISION Conduct meetings with the participation of industrial representatives, research & development organizations and technical universities Put the draft reports on the web & invite comments
- 27. Thank you!