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Smriti Irani Inaugurates two-day workshop on skills in higher education

| | Dec 07, 2014, at 12:20 am
New Delhi, Dec 6 (IBNS) Union Minister of Human Resource Development Smriti Irani emphasized the need to develop skills in Higher Education while inaugurating the Workshop on Skills in Higher Education organized by the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry in New Delhi on Saturday.

 She exhorted the states and the Union Territories to adopt the Credit Framework for skills and Education and the Choice Based Credit System in Universities.

This would give choices to students and also provide respectability to skill programmes.

The Minister added that there would be teachers who would want to bring about change in the society and there will always be students talking about transparency and Know Your College Portal created by the Ministry of HRD to strive towards the same.

The portal will help the students make informed choices, she said.

Not only that, Union HRD Minister informed that some 200000 hours of lectures have been uploaded for students for various courses and disciplines.

The Minister of State for HRD Upendra Kushwaha that the purpose of the Workshop on Skills in Higher Education is to link today’s youth with employability.

The first day of the two-day National Consultation on Skills in Higher Education witnessed participation from Education Secretaries, Vice Chancellors, Principals and Directors of Colleges and Polytechnics and other experts.

The best of Colleges offering the Bachelor of Vocational Studies and Community College programmes show cased the work they are doing.

The Chairman UGC Ved Prakash and the AICTE Chairman S.S. Mantha shared the key features of the credit framework and the Choice based Credit System.

The objective of the two-day National Consultation is to develop a complete architecture for skills in Higher Education.

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