Research still not a
university priority
The Indian
Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, has topped the 2019 National
Institutional Framework Rankings, replacing the Indian Institute of Science
(IISc), Bangalore, which ranks second. Barring such small changes, the top 10
positions have been predictably taken by the older IITs, IIT Roorkee, JNU, and
Banaras Hindu University. This makes the fourth edition of the national ranking
of higher education institutions only marginally different from the previous
three. The ministry of human resource development under whose aegis this
independent and elaborate exercise is carried out has proved that India is
capable of producing an objective ranking of its institutions.
Now it must
move on and use the ranking to help improve the quality of higher education
offered across the board.
The 2019
ranking exercise has evaluated a larger pool of institutions, a total of 4,867,
on five broad parameters: teaching learning and resources; research and
professional practice; graduation outcome; outreach and inclusivity; and
perception.
Certainly,
this helps students choose where to go, but how does this help improve the
quality and output of institutions? Most universities have average scores in
research — nearly 70% of published research is from the top 100 universities.
Universities with a science focus score better on research and professional
practice compared to those that are multidisciplinary or with a social
science/humanities focus. Research and knowledge creation still are not the
prime focus of universities, and pure sciences are not a draw on account of
poorer prospects.
India’s
ambition to become a knowledge economy relies on high-quality human resource.
That means high-quality production of new knowledge, which must be the focus of
policy in higher education.
Source
| https://economictimes.indiatimes.com
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Mr. Pralhad Jadhav
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Senior
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