UNIVERSITY AND HIGHER EDUCATION
 

REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY

        Suggestions received on University and Higher Education
                                         

                                           
        
                      1) Higher education should be research oriented.  Admis-
                      sion  to  technical institutions to be  on  merit  only. 
                      Minimum  age  for admission be not less than  18  years.  
                      Capitation fee be completely abolished. Degree  colleges 
                      be  set  up  in  distt.  head  qrts.  or  cities  having 
                      population of 20,000 or more.
        
        
        Name                     : Ch. Kalyan Jain
        Address                  : 35, Sneh Nagar, Main Road
                         Indore
        Date of Communication    : / / /
        Category                 : VIP letters
                                          

        
        
        
                      1)    Higher education be given proper attention.
                      Institutions or higher learning are in a chaotic state.
        
        
        Name                     : Dr. Mrunalini Puar
        Address                  : M.S University of Baroda
                                   Vadodara
        Date of Communication    : 14/12/89
        Category                 : VIP letters
        
                                          

        
        
                      1)    College and university teachers are against intro-
                      duction  of  autonomous colleges.  These  colleges  will 
                      devalue university degrees, collect capitation fees  and 
                      would be run in an undemocratic way.
        
        
        Name                     : Dr. Sudhir Roy
        Address                  : New Delhi
        Date of Communication    : 21/12/89
        Category                 : VIP letters
                                          

        
        
                      1)    Academic  staff  colleges be closed down  as  they 
                      waste public money without improving academic standards.
        
                      2)    Deemed university status given to National  Museum 
                      be withdrawn.  Nowhere in the world has such status been 
                      given to a museum.
        
                                                 

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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY

 
        Suggestions received on University and Higher Education
                                                 

        
         
        Name                     : Prof. Ajay Mitra Shastri
        Address                  : 23, Vidya Vihar, Rana Pratap
                                   Nagar, Nagpur
        Date of Communication    : 06/03/90
        Category                 : VIP letters
        
                                          

        
                      1)    Universities  should  be autonomous  with  minimum 
                      bureaucratic control.
        
                      2)    Nearly  2500  small  colleges in  rural  areas  be 
                      converted into community colleges or institutes of rural 
                      nigher edcuation.
        
                      3)    All  universities must be assigned  responsibility 
                      of  one block for eradication of illiteracy,  population 
                      education, environmental improvement
                      and vocational training. 
        
                      4)    Instead of opening new Open Universities, existing 
                      universities should establish openlearning departments.
        
                      5)    Research in social sciences must be encouraged.
        
        
        
        Name                     : Prof. Ramlal Parikh
        Address                  : Gujarat Vidyapith,
                                   Ahmedabad - 380 014
        Date of Communication    : 15/05/90
        Category                 : VIP letters
                                          

        
                                          

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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY

 
        Suggestions received on University and Higher Education
        
                                          

 
        
        
                      1)    The  university  session throughout  India  should 
                      start and finish in an uniform manner.
        
        
        Name                     : Sh. Bejendra Krishna Prasad
        Address                  : Rohini Villa, Chiragora,
                                   Dhanbad 826 001
        Date of Communication    : 10/03/90
        Category                 : Other Individual letter
        
                                          

        
        
        
                      1) A survey of the financial requirements of all univer-
                      sities and university level institutions be made to work 
                      out  their  requirements  for  an  effective  university 
                      education.
        
        
        Name                     : Dr. C.M. Bhatia
        Address                  : 8, Vijay Nagar Colony
                                   Agra.
        Date of Communication    :  23/02/90
        Category                 :  Other Individual letter
        
                                          

        
        
        
                      1)    The minimum qualifying marks for JRF (Lectureship) 
                      test be reduced to 50%.
        
        
        Name                     : Sh. Suraj Yadav
        Address                  : ABVP (Delhi)
        Date of Communication    : 27/12/89
        Category                 : Other Individual letter
                                          

        
        
        
                      1)    All  universities should be under the  purview  of 
                      the UGC.
        
                      2)    Semester system be adopted in +2 and 3 stages.
        
                      3)    Uniform course of study be followed in all univer-
                      sities.
        
                      4)    Medium of teaching in universities be English.
        
        
        Name                     : Sh. M.S. Prakash Rao
        Address                  : L6/34, Main Road,
                                   Agrico, Jamshedpur
        Date of Communication    : / / /
        Category                 : Other Individual letter
        
                                          

 
        
        
                                          

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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY

 
        Suggestions received on University and Higher Education
        
                                          

         
        
                      1)    College and university teachers are against intro-
                      duction  of  autonomous colleges.  These  colleges  will 
                      devalue university degrees, collect capitation fees  and 
                      would be run in an undemocratic way.
        
        
        
        Name                     : Dr. Sudhir Roy
        Address                  : President A.I.F. of Univ. &
                                   College Teachers Orgn. N.Delhi
        Date of Communication    : 21/12/89
        Category                 : Organisation
        
                                          

 
        
                                          

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REVIEW OF EDUCATION POLICY

 
        Suggestions received on University and Higher Education
        
                                          

        
         
                      1)  Teaching  experience of one year should  be  a  pre-
                      condition for admission to higher education.
        
        
        Name                     : Smt. Leena Mehendale
        Address                  : Raj Bhavan complex,
                                   Ganeshkhind, Baner Rd. Pune
        Date of Communication    :  19/03/90
        Category                 :  Institution
                                          

        
         
                                          

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