{"id":93983,"date":"2020-02-19T02:48:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=93983"},"modified":"2020-02-19T02:48:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T21:18:45","slug":"tedir-acknowledges-deficiencies-in-states-higher-edn-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/tedir-acknowledges-deficiencies-in-states-higher-edn-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Tedir acknowledges deficiencies in state&#8217;s higher edn system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Feb 18:<\/strong> Education Minister Taba Tedir acknowledged that there are several &#8220;deficiencies&#8221; in the higher education system in the state as colleges are being opened without having in place proper infrastructure and prerequisite facilities.<br \/>\n&#8220;Even land allotment, land possession certificates, college master-plans, boundary walls, etc, are not available with the institutions. All such things are required for further future development and to avoid haphazard growth of institutions,&#8221; Tedir said during the 20th Higher &amp; Technical Education Conference held here on 17 February.<br \/>\nInforming that a regulatory commission for the private universities functioning in the state has been created, he said the commission will become operational very soon.<br \/>\nExpressing concern over the enrollment of fewer students in the government polytechnics, he called for &#8220;introspection&#8221; to arrest the declining enrollment.<br \/>\nThe minister informed that the state will soon have two engineering colleges &#8211; one in Toru, in Papum Pare district, and the other in Lohit HQ Tezu. They will be established with fund from the RUSA, he said.<br \/>\nEducation Secretary Niharika Rai highlighted various initiatives being taken to motivate college faculty members, &#8220;such as excursions to foreign universities, funding for research, and timely APIs.&#8221;<br \/>\nShe asked the faculties of various higher and technical institutes to make students aware of the benefits available to them from the state government, &#8220;such as career counselling modules, scheme for coaching support in preparation for UPSC, IIT-JEE, excursions, etc.&#8221;<br \/>\nRai also emphasized on &#8220;promoting sports as an alternative way of education.&#8221;<br \/>\nHigher &amp; Technical Education Director, Dr Tayek Talom, informed that the directorate is &#8220;working as a tool of change, preparing the way for new and better social order through education.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Effort is to create an enabling atmosphere in the higher educational institutions to promote the stakeholders, with special focus on students and teachers, to devote themselves to teaching-learning process and research and innovations to meet national and global challenges,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nTo impart language and soft skills, he said, the department is arranging collaboration with the British Council.<br \/>\n&#8220;Until school education, particularly at secondary and higher secondary level, is improved, quality requirements in higher education are not possible,&#8221; he said, adding that quality improvement at the school level &#8220;is a precondition to ensure a better higher education system in the state.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Therefore, necessary changes in school education have to come up in line with the efforts of higher education,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Feb 18: Education Minister Taba Tedir acknowledged that there are several &#8220;deficiencies&#8221; in the higher education system in the state as colleges are being opened without having in place proper infrastructure and prerequisite facilities. &#8220;Even land allotment, land possession certificates, college master-plans, boundary walls, etc, are not available with the institutions. All such things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-93983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}