No More Swimming With The Big Fish: Separate Process To Rank Smaller Universities In Future, Says HRD Minister

Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar on Saturday said there would be a different ranking process for small universities in the country in future, reports The Times of India.

He said that since the 'no detention policy' may ruin the education, the government intends to actualise outcome-based learning modules in primary education to outline the learning process of every student.

The minister was talking at the meeting capacity of the Goa University. Governor and Chancellor of the college, Mridula Sinha, was also present.

University Vice-Chancellor, Prof Varun Sahni, who additionally talked on the event, said it was not reasonable that every one of the colleges, independent of their size, are given ranking through the same process.

"There would be a separate ranking process for smaller universities in future.", said Javadekar in his response.

The minister said that the Modi government had been attempting to provide guidance to the education system in the country. "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 the critical analysis of Indian economy. In that paper, the importance of education has also been stressed," he said

"The 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.