Gujarat to scale up higher education
Updated: Jan 23, 2014 03:24:48pm
Ahmedabad, Jan 23 (KNN) Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat is taking various steps to promote excellence in higher education in the state.
In this context, it seeks bids from project management consultant agencies to conduct a baseline survey and prepare an institutional development plan as well as a state higher education plan for the Knowledge Consortium.
The project would be implemented under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) Scheme.
Established by the Department of Education, the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, envisions to generate and provide ideas and paradigms for achieving excellence in education, educational management and policy framing for education in general and higher education in particular.
Along with considering education holistically, it would, through its initiatives pertaining to preservation, acquisition, generation, dissemination and application of knowledge and innovation in all domains of knowledge, ensure that Gujarat carves a unique niche for itself in the global knowledge society in the 21st century.
Further the KCG would proactively facilitate the integration of matter, life, mind and spirit and realization of the ideal fraternity, harmonizing the ideals of liberty and equality.
Among its objectives are to provide a robust platform for the extensive sharing and dissemination of knowledge across all stakeholders of education; to introduce initiatives to increase access and equity of higher education; facilitate academic reforms; curricular development, capacity building of teachers, evaluation, increasing employability of students.
It endeavours to connect all universities, colleges, research institutions and libraries of the State with national and international knowledge networks; facilitates interface among research scholars and faculties in the State and with visiting international academicians; facilitates active collaboration among centres of excellence in the state with their counterparts in the country and beyond; etc. (KNN/ES)
In this context, it seeks bids from project management consultant agencies to conduct a baseline survey and prepare an institutional development plan as well as a state higher education plan for the Knowledge Consortium.
The project would be implemented under the Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) Scheme.
Established by the Department of Education, the Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat, envisions to generate and provide ideas and paradigms for achieving excellence in education, educational management and policy framing for education in general and higher education in particular.
Along with considering education holistically, it would, through its initiatives pertaining to preservation, acquisition, generation, dissemination and application of knowledge and innovation in all domains of knowledge, ensure that Gujarat carves a unique niche for itself in the global knowledge society in the 21st century.
Further the KCG would proactively facilitate the integration of matter, life, mind and spirit and realization of the ideal fraternity, harmonizing the ideals of liberty and equality.
Among its objectives are to provide a robust platform for the extensive sharing and dissemination of knowledge across all stakeholders of education; to introduce initiatives to increase access and equity of higher education; facilitate academic reforms; curricular development, capacity building of teachers, evaluation, increasing employability of students.
It endeavours to connect all universities, colleges, research institutions and libraries of the State with national and international knowledge networks; facilitates interface among research scholars and faculties in the State and with visiting international academicians; facilitates active collaboration among centres of excellence in the state with their counterparts in the country and beyond; etc. (KNN/ES)
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