The Central Agency to Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS) while announcing the package for different types of universities in the country offered many types of incentives including take over, merger and collaborative support by way of providing admissions, placement, marketing, financial, academic and image building for the universities under the Central / State Governments as well as Deemed and State Private Sector Universities besides the Institute of National Importance presently numbering more than 925.
Informing the Members of the Press and Media, the CEO of the
Central Agency to Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness
(CAMPUS), a Division of the Confederation of Indian
Universities (CIU), Dr. Tanuja Trivedi said that the
�Central Agency to Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness
(CAMPUS)� has been established under the aegis of the
Confederation of Indian Universities (CIU) for mitigating
and preventing the disastrous impacts of sickness of
educational institutions in general and of the universities
in particular by designing a new master plan and a paradigm
for ensuring success of tertiary level institutions with
full guidance regarding educational, administrative,
financial, regulatory, planning, promotional and
entrepreneurial activities for enabling the existing and the
proposed university ventures to become a world class
university.
She further added that the recent survey has revealed that
out of the 900+ universities in our country including the
Central, State, Deemed and Private Universities besides the
Institutions of national importance located in different
States, more than 100 universities have become sick or
indisposed either because of financial constraints or
because of the lack of students, educational delivery
system, facilities and infrastructure including problems and
limitations relating to obsolete curriculum and untrained
faculty members.
She was of the view that in order to achieve the milestone
for making many world class universities in our country, it
is essential that we start greening the ivory towers and
design the improved curriculum for need based vocational and
employment centric courses to ensure that the students
coming out successful out of these universities become job
givers, rather than job seekers and that they solve all
problems related to peacelessness, poverty, insurgency,
unemployment, pollution and population explosion.
Stressing the need for priority to be given to the education
sector, she elaborated that education is the largest single
activity in the world, involving over 2000 million students
and 100 million teachers at all levels, not counting
millions of others in educational support activities. But
its importance stems not merely from its size but also from
its role as institutionalized knowledge - the principal
repository, producer, disseminator and transmission belt of
all forms of knowledge.
She recalled that the most significant feature of education
for mother earth protection in the 21st century is not so
much what the French call li explosion scolaire (i pupil
explosioni), but the knowledge explosion, which has expanded
the catchment areas of learning so fast that it takes only a
decade now for the state of the art in any field to become
obsolete.
She felt that as many students leave or graduate from the
college unprepared to meet the demands of the society, this
problem has a ripple effect throughout the society. Students
who are not prepared to become responsible, productive
citizens become a burden to the society. These students,
products of an education system that does not focus on
quality, increase social welfare costs. They impact the
criminal justice system, they are not prepared to meet the
needs of the next generations, and, most importantly, they
are citizens who feel alienated from society. Education must
undergo a paradigm shift. Old norms and beliefs must be
challenged. Educators must help students develop the skills
they need to compete in a global economy. The universities
will never become sick if these aspects are kept in mind.
She invited all such universities to contact the Central
Agency to Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS)
as it has developed technologies for preventing all types of
sickness of universities for the benefit of all university
level institutions.
She finally opined that the package envisaged by the Central
Agency to Mitigate and Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS)
includes all types of assistance, advice and guidance
including collaboration and support by way of enerzising the
universities after diagnosing the weaknesses and limitations
through takeover and/or merger besides providing admissions,
placement, image building and marketing support.
She also highlighted that the Central Agency to Mitigate and
Prevent University Sickness (CAMPUS) under the support of
the resource persons at CIU has developed more than ten
lakhs (one million) pages of Instructional Materials and
Curriculum for the benefit of the Central, State, Deemed,
Private and other types of Universities and the Institutes
of National Importance.
She hoped that the Universities desiring any support must
contact immediately in the current academic and financial
year preferably before 31 July 2018 through email :
[email protected]