PM on Indian Universities

PM Manmohan Singh regretted that not even a single Indian university figured in the top 200 universities of the world adding that there was need for greater flexibility and improvement in quality at institutions of higher learning.
Indian educational institutions have failed to keep abreast with rapid changes, strongly pitching for bringing in flexibility in these higher educational institutes to enable them to attract good faculty and raise teaching standards, noting that the system is often criticized for being unnecessarily rigid both for the faculty and the students.
“We must recognize that too many of our higher educational institutions are simply not up to the mark…Too many of them have simply not kept abreast with the rapid changes that have taken place in the world around us in recent years, still producing graduates in subjects that the job market no longer requires,” Singh told a conference of central university vice chancellors at the Rashtrapati Bhavan.
“In recognition of the fact that expansion without quality improvement serves little purpose, we will now give over-riding emphasis on quality,” he said. His concern was echoed by President Pranab Mukherjee who emphasized that the flight of intellectual capital must be curbed. The President is the chancellor of central universities.