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HYDERABAD: Quality faculty in higher educational institutes is vital, if India has to emerge a major player in the global economy. This was the consensus that emerged from a workshop on ‘Future Directions in Higher Education: Role of Apex Institutions’ organised at IIIT-Hyderabad on Monday. NetworkingExperts at the workshop emphasised on networking various institutions, a common talent examination to catch them young, importing world-class faculty from abroad and encouraging post graduate students to teach while doing research for improving teaching standards. They also suggested in taking help of industry and paying intern students from aboard handsomely. With the 11th five-year plan focusing on the education sector, a new challenge has to be reckoned as it envisages creation of newer institutes of excellence like more IITs, IIMs and IIITs. Most of the youngsters were preferring industry than to teach, said Rajeeva Ratna Shah, former Member-Secretary of the Planning Commission. He said each of the IIITs should strive to be centres of excellence rather than being mere departments and IT was one sector whose applications are diverse and applicable to various disciplines like humanities, geography, agriculture, medical transcription, bio-technology, etc, he said. Narendra Ahuja, a professor from University of Illinois gave a presentation on generating faculty through networked research centres and argued for increased knowledge, resource and faculty sharing among various institutions. Public institutionsAjay Sawhney, Union Joint Secretary, emphasised on creating institutes on the lines of IIIT-H, a not-for-profit public private partnership model. He called them ‘public institutions’ where government would just provide land and other necessary infrastructure but would not interfere in the daily functioning. Public institutions should be autonomous in financial and administrative matters, he said.
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