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Establish a Teachers’ University of Global Standards |
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Set up India’s first Dedicated University of Education |
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Prepare teachers comparable to the best in the world |
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Lead India in Educational Research and Development |
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Be resilient in time and space |
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Second Memorial Lecture
(Saturday, 22nd Jan. 2011) |
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Speaker: Professor
Arun Nigavekar
Raja Ramanna Fellow, Senior Advisor &
Trustee, Science & Technology Park,
University of Pune, Pune 411 007.
(Former Chairman, University Grants
Commission, New Delhi, Former Vice
Chancellor, Pune University, Founder
Director, NAAC)
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Professor Arun Nigavekar,
born in 1942, is a well-known Physicist and
renowned educationist with 45 years of
experience. His significant contributions
have been use of technology for enhancement
of utility and quality of higher education
and internationalization of higher
education. The Former President of India,
Honorable Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam has aptly
called him the Father of Quality Movement in
Higher Education in India for his path
breaking contribution to the initiation of
concept of Quality in Higher Education |
He was the
Chairman and Vice Chairman of UGC between
2000 & 2005. He was the moving force behind
formulating strategy for development of
higher education in the Tenth Plan of
Government of India. Before coming to Delhi,
he was the Vice Chancellor of University of
Pune. Under his leadership this University
became a Centre of Potential for Excellence.
He was the Founder Director of National
Assessment and Accreditation Council, an
autonomous body of UGC. He developed
instrument and methodology for judging
quality in complex Indian higher education
system, which is endorsed by International
Network for Quality Assuring Agencies in
Higher Education (INQUAHE).
He was a member
of Distance Education Council and is also
personally an adviser to Commonwealth of
Learning in Canada. |
Emerging Challenges in Teachers’
Training Programs
The 21st century, that has knowledge as a
force for changing economies, witnesses new
emerging strengths of education. Education
is not an entity to be acquired in a fixed
period of few years, but it is a skill that
opens the doors for lifelong learning.
Hence, the critical skill for the learner is
learning how to learn. They need to acquire
many other skills; such as making critical
judgments, and being tolerant to other
creeds and cultures.
The last two decades of 20th century saw
emergence of technologies as a strong force
that changes the learning paradigm. The
three technology revolutions in the domain
of computers, communications and
broadcasting have entirely changed the way
education is delivered in the class rooms.
Teachers are now to teach in face-to-face
education mode that is blended with
e-learning objects.
Teachers need also to have clarity in
holistic and integrated development of
schools. Thus, the training of teachers’ in
the present century has to come out of good
old traditional approach and get transformed
in to the new methodology that give
teachers’, what one calls the skills of 21st
century for playing a positive aggressive
and vibrant role of a
facilitator-cum-teacher.
The present lectures address the
intricacies, complexities and efficacies in
emerging trends and challenges in Teachers’
Training Programs.
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