Anil D Sahasrabudhe, Chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), underlined the need for curriculum reform in all streams of education to make improvements to the teaching-learning process on Saturday.
Anil D Sahasrabuddhe, President of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), underlined the importance of changing the curriculum in all streams of education to improve the teaching-learning process on Saturday. Curriculum is alive and well. For decades, we won’t be able to sleep on the course. Professor Sahasrabuddhe believes that the global developments will have to be reflected in the teaching-learning process.
Anil D Sahasrabuddhe, President of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), underlined the importance of changing the curriculum in all streams of education to improve the teaching-learning process on Saturday. Curriculum is alive and well. For decades, we won’t be able to sleep on the course. Professor Sahasrabuddhe believes that the global developments will have to be reflected in the teaching-learning process.
At a virtual conference hosted by SRM University-AP, the President of the AICTE gave a speech on Higher Education in India. Sahasrabuddhe stated that syllabus change is required for all engineering colleges, but that it is also required for arts, science, and commerce colleges.
We have made internships, project-based experiential education, and faculty training mandatory for graduate students under the New Education Policy-2020, which is extremely essential. According to him, the AICTE has developed an eight-module faculty certification curriculum that will span the full teaching career.
In the COVID period, Sahasrabuddhe noted that there has been a shift from classroom to online education, and that the quality has been impacted in several ways. This is something we can surely conquer. He believes that classroom education must be repeated and reinvented. However, we must exit this (COVID crisis) as soon as possible and return to classrooms and campuses.
This, according to the AICTE’s chairman, is a pressing requirement. Not everything can be done online, according to Sahasrabuddhe. Human-to-human contact, on the other hand, is critical. It is critical to implement a blended learning approach (classroom and online) that harnesses the potential of technology. Satish Chandra, Special Chief Secretary (Higher Education) to the Andhra Pradesh Government, D Narayana Rao, Pro-Vice Chancellor of SRM University-AP, VS Rao, and others were in attendance.
India had the Gurukula system of education in ancient times, where anyone who wanted to learn went to a teacher’s (Guru) residence and asked to be taught. If the guru accepts him as a disciple, he will live at the guru’s home and assist in all of the guru’s activities. This not only strengthened the bond between the teacher and the student, but it also taught the student how to govern a household. From Sanskrit to the holy writings, and from mathematics to metaphysics, the guru taught whatever the youngster wished to know. The pupil stayed as long as she wanted or until the guru thought he had covered all of his bases.
