On Saturday, Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said that in near future there will be a separate process for ranking small universities of the nation. He further said that since ‘no detention policy’ can spoil the educational outcomes, the government will soon switch to outcome-based learning modules in the primary education to map the learning process of each child.
The minister was speaking at the convocation function of the Goa University. The Governor and Chancellor of the University, Mridula Sinha, was also present on the occasion.
University’s vice-chancellor said that it is not fair that all the universities of the nation, irrespective of their size, are ranked through a common ranking process. In his response, Mr Javadekar said, "There would be a separate ranking process for smaller universities in future."
The minister also said that the Modi government is trying hard to give new directions to the education system.
"For the last four years, we have been trying to give proper direction to education. (Former RBI governor) Raghuram Rajan and twelve economists have given a 40-page paper on critical analysis of Indian economy. In that paper, importance of education has also been stressed," he said during his address to students.
Mr. Javadekar said that the education standard should not be measured from the inputs but from the outputs.
"Only infrastructure in educational institutions is not important...What is critical is how much is the outcome. Students are the barometer of the outcome of the educational institutes," he said.
"We can judge it by sensing whether the students, who have passed, think only of themselves or whether they think of the society also...whether they are good citizens and whether they are inculcating values to make society better," he added.
On the Right to Education (RTE) and the 'no detention policy', Mr Javadekar said, "We need to check whether we are providing outcome- based education right from the primary education."
"We have seen that the examinations are cancelled till Class VIII. Such a system might spoil the education, that is why we created learning outcome, which lists what should be learnt by students in each standard," the minister said.
"It would be monitored whether the learning outcome of each of the student is completed or not. That is the basic of our education," he said.
He also pointed to the fact that out of 10,000 graduates of Goa University, who were given certificates, 52 percent were the girls, Mr Javadekar said “the essence of 'Beti Bachao,Beti Padhao' campaign lies in this phenomenon.”
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