Change course, Chandrasekhar Rao tells Vice-Chancellors of universities

Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Monday asked all state universities to devise new courses which will make students employable and help them grab opportunities available across the globe. He said universities should not become centres to produce unemployed but enhance the employable skills of students. Mr Rao held a meeting with Vice-Chancellors of universities at his camp office. Senior ministers and officials of higher education department were present.

Mr Rao expressed concern over the deteriorating standards in universities and said officials and V-Cs should take steps to revive the past glory of universities. The CM promised to enhance the funds for universities significantly from the 2017-18 Budget. Mr Rao said that the state universities were being discriminated by the Centre and UGC in sanctioning of funds and he had taken this issue to the notice of the PM during the recently-held CMs conference in New Delhi.

He asked V-Cs to provide better hostel and mess facility for students. Mr Rao said though nearly 45,000 students are being trained in teacher training courses like B.Ed, D.Ed etc in TS every year, there were not enough job opportunities available for them and such mismatch should be avoided. “Not only teaching courses, a similar situation is being witnessed with regard to some other courses. This should be checked. The universities should conduct thorough research over which courses are useful to secure employment in India and abroad and implement them accordingly,” Mr Rao said.

He found fault with officials and V-Cs for continuing the courses that were devised in undivided AP and asked them to devise new courses that suit the needs of TS.