The Minister of Human Resource and Development government of India, Dr. Arjun Singh has called to give the country a road map of higher education.
Inaugurating the National Conference of Vice Chancellors on Development of Higher Education, the Minister asked the Vice Chancellors to keep in mind that there is a rich and poor divide in the country while working out the strategy with conviction and a national commitment to see India through. He called to jointly define the parameters of higher education as to what should be the content, what should be the extent of higher education, what should be the methodology of teaching and what should be the basic ingredients of the syllabus etc. The conference is being organised by the University Grants Commission (UGC).
