Educationists stress on univ bifurcation

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Mumbai: A two-day conference at National College, organized by Maharashtra State Federation of College Principals that started on Saturday, saw participation of more than 500 principals and educationists.

Bhalchandra Mungekar, Rajya Sabha member and former vice-chancellor of Mumbai University, said, “Universities that have more than 300 affiliated colleges should go in for bifurcation.” Mungrekar said he would try to bring Kapil Sibal to Mumbai and give a platform to teachers to air their grievances. He also stressed on involving entrepreneurs in formulating universities’ curricula.

Topics such as increasing number of self-financed courses resulting in decreasing value of traditional courses, colleges being denied grants for professional courses, difficulties of principals in coping with the commercialized approach of modern managements of educational institutes and so on were discussed by representatives of the federation.

Principal Nandkumar Nikam, chairman of the federation, also stressed on the fact that higher education does not seem to be the priority of the state.