Experts stress on raising quality of education
By Gaurav Sidhu
Bathinda, January 19
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University (MRSPTU), Bathinda organised a webinar on “Quality Enhancement through Accreditation” for all constituent and affiliated colleges here on Monday.
The webinar took into account the various challenges being faced by the growing higher education system of India and stress on raising the quality of education.
While inaugurating the webinar, MRSPTU, Bathinda, Vice Chancellor, Prof. Buta Singh Sidhu emphasised on raising the quality of education to bring it on a par with international standards. He said the quality mandate aims at evolving a higher education system to equip the country’s next-generation with vital skills, knowledge, and ethics for leading a rewarding life.
While speaking on the challenges in education, Prof. Sidhu said India trails behind several countries in terms of student-teacher ratio in the higher education segment. He also talked about various aspects of New Education Policy.
Dr. Ganesh Hegde, Adviser, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) delivered expert talk on “Quality Enhancement through Accreditation”. He explained various aspects and parameters for NAAC accreditation. He stressed on the need to develop an environment, where critical and independent thinking, continuous interaction and academic vibrancy are part of everyday learning.
He added that in any assessment of quality, the vision and mission statements provided by the institution are important parameters for assessment. NAAC accreditation for Institutes is an integral part of the functioning of higher education institutions to know its strengths, opportunities and weaknesses through an informed review process. He stressed the importance of a student satisfaction survey for the NAAC grading concluding the session with an explanation of the Data Validation and Verification process.
He also suggested a short term mandatory course for students of MRSPTU on Maharaja Ranjit Singh, a great warrior on whose name the university was named.
While Dr. Vanita Sahu, Assistant Adviser, NAAC delivered detailed expert talk on Data verification and valediction and accreditation outcome.
More than 100 participants from the different constituent and affiliated colleges to MRSPTU participated in the webinar. There was an interactive session with the faculty members asking various questions to experts to clear their doubts on the rules of NAAC regarding criteria.
The webinar coordinator Prof. (Dr.) Balwinder Singh Sidhu welcomed all the dignitaries and participants of the webinar. He said the webinar proved beneficial for all the Colleges and Departments as the resource person shared valuable inputs about National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC). Dr. Dinesh Kumar, head, Computer Science and Engineering department introduced the resource persons to the participants.
