The College Grants Fee (UGC) may look into enjoyable its tips that mandate 75% attendance in Larger Training Establishments (HEIs), stated UGC Secretary Manish Joshi. He was talking at a chat titled ‘Engineering the Future: Alternatives and Profession Pathways for Budding Engineers’ on the Progressive Training Society Auditorium in Shivajinagar, Pune.
Responding to a scholar’s query in regards to the obligatory attendance coverage hindering scholar’s extracurricular actions, Joshi stated that the fee would look into the suggestion of enjoyable the mandate.
“There’s a distinction between the time when 75% attendance was obligatory and the present period. The earlier schooling system was simply between a trainer and a scholar. Due to this fact, attendance was a mandatory situation. Anyway some faculties take a smooth stance on college students concerning class attendance. Now there are various mediums of schooling and there have been adjustments within the schooling system. On account of this, leisure of the 75% attendance rule will be thought-about,” he stated.
Joshi additionally talked in regards to the enthusiasm of Indian college students and their change in angle.
He stated, “What number of of you are feeling that you should have your individual Unicorn sooner or later? Wow! So lots of you. If I had requested you all this 10-15 years in the past, nobody would even know what a Unicorn is. Everybody would have considered a horse…The mentality that you just all have, of offering employment relatively than in search of employment is extraordinarily good. And all of you’ve got this caliber.”
A Unicorn is a non-public startup firm valued at over US$ 1 billion. Joshi stated that India ranks third on the planet after the USA of America and China within the variety of unicorns, which he attributed to the spirit of scholars.
