Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Thursday, Jan 29, 2004
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Industry & Economy
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Education `Exploit India's knowledge base to market education' Our Bureau
Mangalore , Jan. 28 THE Director of the National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Prof S.S. Murthy, has stressed the need for exploiting India's knowledge base to market its higher education system. Delivering a lecture on `Education in the globalised economy,' organised by the Mangalore-Manipal chapter of the Public Relations Society of India (PRSI) here, he said the knowledge base of India is its niche area, and it should be exploited. Japan, which lacked natural resources, capitalised on its knowledge base to become a leader in the industrial sector. Educated trained human beings are the resources of Japan, he said. Quality education is essential to market the education system, and the Indian Institutes of Technology have become the benchmark in this regard, Prof Murthy said. Autonomy and freedom are essential for providing quality education, he said, adding that the four `Fs' — fund, freedom, flexibility and freedom to hire faculty — are required to set up a quality education institution. In India, 1,300 institutions have 2,00,000 engineering seats. Of them, IITs have 3,000 seats and national institutes of technology 7,000. The selection process for admission to IITs is one of the toughest. This has helped in producing quality students, he said. On the advantages of having international students in campuses, he said they would act as ambassadors of the Indian education system in the world.
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