The proposed higher education policy should be aimed at addressing the shortcomings in the higher education system, said D. Viswanathan, former Vice-Chancellor of Anna University.
Presiding over a two-day international seminar on “Financial markets: issues and challenges” and SMART awards presentation function at the Bharathidasan University organised by the Department of Commerce and Financial Studies on Saturday, he said apart from narrowing down the gap between existing education system and the well-acclaimed systems in a few countries, the policy should possess ingredients to overcome the crisis of humanity. It should be socially relevant to find real time solutions to the issues.
While advocating the need for recognising best-performing teachers, he said the management theory on motivating employees being taught to students should be allowed to be applied in the educational institutions. Awards and incentives would certainly motivate the teachers to work well for the betterment of students.
Mr. Viswanathan said there was no need for depending upon foreign investment if the Centre introduced a transparent and people-friendly mechanism to tap the household savings. Besides facilitating them for using the savings for constructive investment purposes, they could be channelled into financial market.
He congratulated the SMART Journal for constituting the awards which recognise renowned educational administrators and academicians and eminent young academicians for their far-reaching impact on the field of commerce and management education.
M. Selvam, Seminar Director and Chief Editor of SMART Journal of Business Management Studies, said awards had been constituted to motivate the teachers and administrators.
P. Selvaraj, Founder and Chairman of Shivani Group of Institutions, Tiruchi; Murali Rajan, Interim Associate Dean, Kania School of Management, University of Scranton; R.N. Anantharaman , Professor in Management and Dean of Business Studies at the Multimedia University, Malaysia; Balasundram Maniam, Professor at the Sam Houston State University, U.S.; K.S. Chandrasekar , Director of School of Business Management and Legal Studies, University of Kerala; Balasundaram Nimalathasan, Senior Lecturer in Department of Accounting, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka were honoured with various awards.
Jayanti Kuppusamy, Faculty of Business and Law, Multimedia University, Malaysia; and R.N. Anantharaman, Faculty of Business and Law, Multimedia University, Malaysia; were honoured with SMART Journal Best Paper award.
Elias Mohammed Khan, Group Manager, HCL Technologies Ltd., was honoured with SMART Journal Distinguished Alumni Award.
Awards and incentives would certainly motivate teachers to work well for betterment of students
Need to recognise best-performing teachers
