The chief minister of Tamil Nadu, MK Stalin, expressed concern on Friday that education is still on the list of concurrent participants, claiming that the central government had exercised its powers to “press its regressive views into the syllabus”. Bringing education back to the state list will be the best solution for this, he said without elaborate.
“It is concerning that the Center is exercising its powers to use education to advance its regressive views. Bringing education back to the state list will be the best solution to stop this,” the Chief Minister said at the meeting of the Vice Chancellors of the South Zone at Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, almost from here.
The Vice Chancellor, the Chief Minister said, played a vital role in shaping the functioning and quality of education. They should strive to promote the scientific mood among the students. Stalin recalled that the vice chancellors have a great responsibility to provide education that will equip the students for jobs, and emphasized providing skills-based education and training in the curriculum. “This is why I launched the Naan Mudhalvan (Skills Development Program),” he said.
The Chief Minister was proud that Tamil Nadu’s gross enrollment rate in higher education was 51.4 percent, well above the national average of 27.1 percent. “This is the unique achievement of Tamil Nadu. The GER is almost double the national average and in the state we have a student-teacher ratio of 17:1,” he said. The Chief Minister pointed out that there were 1,553 colleges spread across the state. About 52 government and private universities are ranked in the top 100 varsities in the National Institutional Ranking Framework 2020-21. The state had allocated Rs 5,369 crore in the 2021-22 budget for higher education, he said.
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