Press Trust Of India
Berhampur, Jan 12: The state government has taken initiative for overhauling the entire higher education system with introduction of job-oriented vocational courses and choice based credit system (CBCS) in undergraduate classes.
The courses would be introduced from next academic session, state’s higher education minister, Pradeep Kumar Panigrahi said here. “The main objective is to produce skilled manpower and enhance quality of higher education to match global level”, Panigrahi told a workshop on ‘Quality enhancement in Higher Education of Orissa,’ organised Sunday by regional directorate of higher education here.
“When we talk about quality education, we need to fulfill aspirations of the students and provide job oriented, need-based and work-centered education”, the minister said.
The government would start the exercise to provide such inputs for achieving skilled manpower, employability with scope for capacity building, he said.
Deputy director, vocational education PK Tripathy said the government has decided to introduce vocational educations in Plus III level to produce skilled manpower. University Grants Commission (UGC) had launched the vocational education in undergraduate level and the principals should submit their proposals for launching the course for which UGC would provide Rs 1.85 crore to each college.
Among others, chairman, council of higher secondary education, Orissa (CHSE) Basudev Chhatoi, educationist Mihir Kumar Das and regional director, education (Berhampur) L K Tripathy spoke.