National Accreditation and Assessment Committee (NAAC) director S.C. Sharma has underlined the need to restructure the entire university education in order to prepare students to face challenges of the present competitive world and also as a nation building exercise.
Delivering the keynote address at the 6th annual convocation of Davangere University held on the Shivagangotri campus here on Wednesday, he said the present education system in the country has been borrowed from the West without studying its pros and cons, and hence we have failed to produce world class scientists and scholars.
But, we should make sense of the educational practices such as giving seminars, writing term papers, conducting research, organising conferences and such other things, he said. Without a proper idea of these practices, we cannot make university life meaningful. Mere application of theories and concepts coming from western universities is not a generative learning. Therefore, our task is to produce scientists, thinkers and scholars of highest order who can generate ideas in their respective disciplines, he said. Besides, there is a need to change our perception of teaching as it should set the goal beyond preparing our students for exams, he said.
Davangere Univeristy Vice-Chancellor S.V. Halase presided over the event. Higher Education Minister G.T. Deve Gowda and Registrars Basavaraja Banakara and P. Kannan were present.
