Quality of education in India is unsatisfactory, says Narayana Murthy
India has hardly produced any worthwhile inventions. Almost every technology we use is from abroad. The reason is the low quality and quantity of our doctoral programmes and our emphasis on rote learning, he rued as the audience listened in rapt attention. At the function, JB Joshi, director, UICT announced that the UICT had been conferred deemed university status by the Ministry of Human Resources Development and the University Grants Commission earlier this month.
Joshi said, This will be a unique deemed university in Maharashtra which may bring paradigm shift.
Apart from Murthy, other dignitaries at the function included Dr R Mashelkar, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research Chief and Dr AD Sawant Pro-vice-chancellor, University of Mumbai among others.
Murthy suggested that universities need to focus on excellence in research, encouraging more Honours programmes, introducing loan systems for higher education like in the US.
He emphasised on the need for the Government to give up its control over higher education and instead become a catalyst to improve it.