PATNA: With a view to preparing a roadmap for higher education in Bihar, the state human resource development (HRD) department in collaboration with the Institute of Public Enterprise has convened a two-day interaction of eminent educationists from India and abroad here on Thursday and Friday.
Giving details of this initiative, HRD principal secretary Anjani Kumar Singh said that expertsparticipating in this conclave would discuss the problems facing the development of higher education in the state and suggest remedy for improvement. Issues like information technology, medical education, strategy and policy for quality education, right to education, public-private partnership and innovations and incentives in higher education would be discussed threadbare by the experts.
Prominent among those who are likely to participate include P K J Mohapatra from the IIT, Kharagpur, S S Sahay from the IIM, Lucknow, Supriya Kummamuru from the Tata Consultancy Service, Hyderabad, Josephine Anthony from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Suresh Prasad from the IIT, Patna, V Mukunda Das from the Chandragupta Institute of Management Patna, Kuldip Kumar from the Bond University, Australia, and Janak Pandey from Central University of Bihar (CUB). State HRD minister P K Shahi will inaugurate the seminar.
The HRD principal secretary said as many as 85 experts would present their papers at the conference. He admitted that the progress of higher education in Bihar was not up to the mark and there was much scope for improvement. There is acute dearth of teachers in universities and colleges and necessary steps have been initiated to fill up the vacant posts. The government is keen on improving the quality of higher education and hence a roadmap for the desired growth and qualitative improvement in higher education is being prepared, Singh said.
Giving details of this initiative, HRD principal secretary Anjani Kumar Singh said that expertsparticipating in this conclave would discuss the problems facing the development of higher education in the state and suggest remedy for improvement. Issues like information technology, medical education, strategy and policy for quality education, right to education, public-private partnership and innovations and incentives in higher education would be discussed threadbare by the experts.
Prominent among those who are likely to participate include P K J Mohapatra from the IIT, Kharagpur, S S Sahay from the IIM, Lucknow, Supriya Kummamuru from the Tata Consultancy Service, Hyderabad, Josephine Anthony from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, Suresh Prasad from the IIT, Patna, V Mukunda Das from the Chandragupta Institute of Management Patna, Kuldip Kumar from the Bond University, Australia, and Janak Pandey from Central University of Bihar (CUB). State HRD minister P K Shahi will inaugurate the seminar.
The HRD principal secretary said as many as 85 experts would present their papers at the conference. He admitted that the progress of higher education in Bihar was not up to the mark and there was much scope for improvement. There is acute dearth of teachers in universities and colleges and necessary steps have been initiated to fill up the vacant posts. The government is keen on improving the quality of higher education and hence a roadmap for the desired growth and qualitative improvement in higher education is being prepared, Singh said.
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