Innovative Initiatives in Higher Education in Gujarat

Sandeep Sharma, Joint CEO, SCOPE Education Department, Govt. of Gujarat

November 9, 2012

Upskilling and Skill Development through quality education

Core principles

• Accountability

• Access

• Affordability

• Decency

• Efficiency

• Fairness

• Local language

• Local context

• Participation

• Reciprocity

• Transparency

The policy interventions in the higher education sector in Gujarat :

• Strengthening Communication • Curriculum Related Issues • ICT in Education • Faculty Quality • Employability and relevance to

society • Equity and Access • Systemic Climate or educational

ecosystem • Evaluation and Research output

Challenges

• 500 million skilled manpower requirement at national level in next 10 years

• 0.5 million skilled manpower required for Gujarat in next 5 years

• No uniformity of courses of universities

• No/meager industry interaction

• Not enough practical sessions – not even 50%

• Not enough training

• Not enough material – computers in schools but no content

• Non relevant courses – e.g. generator repairing course in Ahmedabad

Basic skills

• Subject matter skills

• IT skills

– Equation : IT + IT = IT

• Soft skills (particularly language skills)

• Life coping skills (Time Management, Stress Management, PD etc.)

New Universities

• Total 42 universities • Proposed universities

– Lakulish Yog University – Khel University

• Established universities – Gujarat National Law University

(GNLU) - 2003 – Pandit Deendayal Petroleum

University (PDPU)-2007 – Gujarat State Forensic

University – 2008 – Children’s University - 2009 – Raksha Shakti University - 2009 – Indian Institute of Teacher

Education (IITE) – 2010

Knowledge Consortium of Gujarat

• CBCS (Choice Based Credit System) – Implementation of academic reforms

– implemented in all state universities at UG and PG level from June 2011

– Life enrichment course • Sandhan (All Gujarat integrated classroom) - Telecast in 900+ colleges - 790 lectures related to 24 subjects - 7:00 am to 7:00 pm • Saptdhara (1.Gyand dhara 2. Srijanatmak Abhivyakti dhara 3.

Yog, Khelkud, Vyayam dhara 4. Rang Kaushalya dhara 5. Samudayik Sewa dhara 6. Nritaya Sangeet dhara 7. Naatya dhara)

• AAA (Academic and Administrative Audit) • Research & other initiatives – ALM, KMP, MMI, GQ, NMEICT • UDISHA

– UDISHA clubs in all colleges – Online placement fairs

• Soil Health Card – 7,39,382 soil samples tested in 55 science college

laboratories (33% of soil samples of the state) – Rs. 80/- per sample – Rs. 1,47,86,400/- paid to 2500 students

Children’s University

• Research, Education, Training, Extension

• Every child is unique

• Complete cycle – the time the child is in womb to 18 years of age

• Tapovans

• Publications - Handbook in English and Gujarati

Gujarat Educational Innovations Commission

• To promote conception, experimentation and implementation of Educational Innovations

• Vision of 5 luminaries – Shri Aurobindo, Swami Vivekanand, Dayanand Saraswati, Ravindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi

• Working on 133 educational innovations entries • Award/Fellowship scheme – Total 30

fellowships - Individual and Institutional – Primary : Male – 6 , Female – 4,

Institutional - 5 – Secondary : Male – 5 , Female – 3,

Institutional - 2 – Higher Education : Male – 2 , Female – 1,

Institutional - 2 • 38 projects • Publications - Learning from Innovative

Primary School Teachers of Gujarat, Innovations by Primary teachers, Kelvani : Navi Kedi-e-thi

Shree Somnath Sanskrit University

• Trained 100,000 students in Sanskrit Sambhashan • Theme pavilion planned as per advice of Dr Kiritbhai

Joshi • Training target – 15000 students p.a. • Courses

– Temple Management (6 diploma courses) – 8 in foreign as priest

– Yog (M.A. degree) – Subjects – Veda, Vedant, Sahitya,

DharmaShastra, Nyaya, Jyotish, Vyakaran, Vastu, Puran, English, Economics, Computers

• Activities – 15,000 students participated in 3-day

Mahakumbh seminar – Participation in International World Book Fair – Felicitation ceremony for eminent personalities

in Sanskrit – Bharat Natya Mahotsav - Sanskrit Plays, Quiz

competition, Essay writing – Training workshop for teachers and students

• 26 affiliated colleges and centres

Indian Institute of Teacher Education

• 4 / 6 years integrated programme

• Semester system and credit system

• Core Courses - Social Sciences, Science and Mathematics, Humanities Languages

• Professional Courses – Philosophy of Life and Education, Communication skills

• General Studies – Health and Physical Education, Leisure Education

• Value and skill-orientation

• Global outlook and its allied abilities

• To manifest new attitudes and new inclinations

Mission Mode Implementation (MMI) Quality Enhancement Programme through Cascade Model for Higher Education

CHE + KCG + GEIC

Zone

HED (Higher Education District)

Cluster

College

State Level

Zone Level

HED Level

Cluster Level

State Coordinator

SRG

State Resource Group

Grass Root Level

Zonal Coordinator

ZRG

Zonal Resource Group

HED Coordinator

HEDRG Higher Education District Resource

Group

Cluster Coordinator

CRG

Cluster Resource Group

Principal & Teachers

+ Students

1

5

57

287

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CBCS : Choice Based Credit System

• A structured education system having enough room for flexibility

• A system that offers choice of selection

• Learner centric education with room for flexibility within a standard framework

• Credit portability across the Regional/National institutes

• Interdisciplinary / Vocational / Skill based Elective Courses

• Project based / Activity based learning

• Continuous Comprehensive Evaluation

• Evaluation in terms of Grades

• Interaction of Co-Curricular / Extracurricular / Extension activities within the curriculum.

SAPTADHARA

• The ultimate aim of SAPTADHARA mission is to make our students enable to

experience the joy of aesthetic pleasure and to learn from our great traditions of

knowledge by way of taking up activities of SAPTADHARA which includes

– GYAN DHARA (Activities related to Knowledge)

– SARJNATMAK ABHIVYAKTI DHARA (Activities related to Creative Expression)

– KALA KAUSHALYA DHARA (Activities related to fine arts)

– NATYA DHARA (Activities related to drama & theatre)

– GIT-SANGIT NRUTYA DHARA (Activities related to Music and Dance)

– VYAYAM YOG KHEL-KUD DHARA (Activities related to Exercise, YOGA & Sports)

– SAMUDAYIK SEVA DHARA (Activities related to Community/Social services).

Research and Innovations

• What:

– To strengthen Higher Education with the help of Research and Innovations

– More than 2200 major and minor research proposals submitted with UGC within a span of 8 months

• Why:

– Increasing demand for strengthening research capabilities

• How:

– To promote a culture of research in institutions of higher education

– To provide support to teachers for strengthening their research base

• Preparing research proposals

• Different skills. attitude and knowledge of research

• Awareness of funding sources, schemes and trends

– To promote publication of journals

– To provide support to institutions

SANDHAN : Solution of paucity of faculty and training the teacher

• What

– All Gujarat Integrated Classroom,

– ICT enabled quality teaching to students through the telecast of lectures and panel discussions by distinguished faculties from the State and outside.

– an extensive platform for the use of Audio-Visual tools for the telecast of lectures in an innovative and interesting manner.

– 7:00 am to 7:00 pm

– To compliment the teaching-learning process

– To train the teachers in the preparation of e-content

• How

– SANDHAN, a programme covering 900+ colleges.

– DVDs of lectures for circulation in colleges.

– Task Force at various levels.

– State level coordinators to select experts for each subject.

Training and Capability Building Programme

• What

– Training and Capability Building of teachers, administrators and

librarians so as to enable them to function as facilitators and motivators

for students in a learner centric education process.

• Why

– With a view to enable teachers, administrators and librarians to deal with

the challenges of higher education during a phase of academic and

administrative reforms.

• How

– KCG has been organizing various Training and Capability Building

Programmes

– Includes Content related training and generic training on Government

Initiatives

– Face to face residential and non residential Training.

– Satellite based Training through Sandhan

– Collaboration with different training agencies, for development of

training modules and delivery of the same.

Placement Opportunities : UDISHA

UDISHA

– Universal Development of Integrated employability Skills through Higher Education Agencies

– A government initiative to provide employment to youth

– Focusing on bridging the gap between Job-seekers and Job-providers.

• How

– Establishment of an UDISHA Club in every college ( Principal+ Teacher In charge + 6 students)

– Creation of students Database through registration of students

– Conducting Aptitude Tests and identifying the areas/skills in which students require special training

– Providing Training to students - Soft Skills, especially Communication skills, Computer Literacy & even Self confidence to meet the expectations and needs of the market

– Conducting regular Career Counseling to ensure awareness of available career opportunities and to help students in making the right career choices.

– To collaborate with Industry and facilitate placement fairs ( State, District & College level) and provide better job opportunities to the students of Higher Education in Gujarat & support nation building.

KMPF: Knowledge Management

Program for Faculty

• Building Capabilities of faculties of institutions of higher education in the state by integrating ICT and English in their role of creating and dissemination of knowledge and also to equip them in their respective knowledge domain.

• Aims of KMPF

– To improve proficiency in English and Communication Skills.

– To improve proficiency in ICT skills.

– To develop ICT-based teaching learning tools including multimedia, web based tools and e content.

– To empower faculties to use e resources including e books & e journals for teaching and research purposes with internet specially for knowledge management.

– Developing commitment and integrity towards teaching profession

Active Learning Methodology

Objectives

• Passive Classroom into Active Classroom

• Task Based Learning

• Student involvement in classroom through active

participation

• Generate involvement and active engagement in education

• Greater emphasis on developing students skills

• Get students involved in higher order thinking (HOTS)

Academic and Administrative Audit

• Accreditation and Audit system that enables mentoring more than monitoring

• Community driven, concurrent, continuous, internal evaluation and mentoring of the Institutions of the State at a periodicity of a year.

• To review the implementation of Academic Management, Practices,

Infrastructural Facilities and Government schemes in all colleges of the State. • It will assess each HEI through an alpha numeric grade, indicating both the

NAAC and AAA grading, ranging from AI (A-one) to EV (E five) and will lay emphasis on the incremental change rather than absolute grades and arrive at a AAA score.

• The AAA Score would be used as a tool to evaluate the performance of the institution, identify the areas for special focus and improvement thus enabling Institutional Capability Building.

Strengthening and Revamping Libraries

• Libraries are the oblique treasures which if unearthed can become like rare jewels for the development of the students and the readers.

• In the 21st century, internet has become a knowledge portal and e-books have become inseparable part of library.

• The vision of the initiative is to transform the existing libraries into tech savy e-learning centers.

• The objectives of the initiative “Strengthening and Revamping Libraries” are as under :

– To build capabilities of librarians of higher education institutes in the state.

– To enhance learning resources of the libraries including books, e-books, journals, e-journals and other available ICT based resources.

– To motivate teachers & students to use library resources.

– To use modern software like SOUL or INFLIBNET and also form a network between the libraries of the State.

– To provide all the libraries connectivity with each other in the state

Leveraging on English – SCOPE • SCOPE - PPP mode and through institutions of higher

education

• Successful PPP project – Bringing together Community, Government and Private Players

• 3,00,000 + students

• Cambridge University certificate

• Online real time examination

• BULATS equivalent to IELTS

• Special English Zone (SEnZ) in colleges

• MIS – centre , batch and student registration, hall tickets, name correction, provisional result

• Placement Opportunities

• Self Confidence

• Research – trend analysis

• Publications

Community Participation... contd

- More than 400+ private training centres across state

- 401 colleges as centres

- All partners in profit (BEP achieved after 6 months of start of centre)

Entrepreneurship opportunities

- ELE (English Language Entrepreneurship) module

Use of ICT : Online Examination • The main aim of the initiative – “ICT in Education” is to

promote

– ICT as a subject

– Use of ICT as a tool to support teaching-learning process of all the subjects

– Use ICT as an administrative tool and a medium of exchange of knowledge

• NMEICT

• E-gyan portal

• ODOLE

• CBT (Computer Based Tests), Adaptive tests

• E-Content and Curriculum Development Cell

• NPTEL

Access, Affordability, Achievement, Equity

• Multiple centres – no student has to walk beyond 5 Km of his/her place of residence

• OAS (Only Assessment Scheme) – Rs. 125/- for A level and Rs. 225/- for B level and above

• Special schemes for Tribal and PH candidates

• Skill Vouchers

DELL – Digital Education and Learning Laboratory – digital infrastructure • Digital infrastructure in colleges in the form

of full fledged computer labs

• A step towards ODOLE (On Demand Online Examination)

• 401 colleges covered

What is covered in a DELL :

1 server, 24 computers, AV facility, UPS, electrical and network cabling, networking equipments, softwares, internet connection, stationery, resident manpower

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Road Ahead

• Academically rich, highly flexible learning system with online on-demand option

• Focus not on ‘Teaching’ but on ‘Creating a Learning Environment’

• Option of slow, normal or accelerated learning

• AAA

• Acquisition of additional skills

• National integration of Knowledge through NKN, NTM

• Transition from Knowledge Absorbing Society to Knowledge Generating Society

Important links

www.gujarat-education.gov.in www.kcg.gujarat.gov.in www.scopegujarat.org www.granthnirman.com www.iite.ac.in www.geic.ac.in www.university4children.com Googlegroup :

http://groups.google.com/group/scopegujarat Group email address : scopegujarat@googlegroups.com Facebook page :

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Society-for-Creation-of-Opportunity-through-Proficiency-in-English-SCOPE/121569977928783

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