Mapping of resources and infrastructure in the higher education sector by the Kerala State Higher Education Council will help to give parents, teachers and students — stakeholders in the sector — new insights, K.N. Panikkar, Vice-Chairman of the council, said here on Friday.
He was inaugurating a seminar organised by the council to explain the mapping process to teachers and students who will carry out the survey in institutions of higher learning in the State. The National Service Scheme (NSS) is collaborating with the council for the work.
He said most of what had been done on the higher education sector so far was more on the basis of conjecture than sound data. The State did not have complete information about its own universities, colleges, teachers and their interests and academic pursuits or the projects that they had. There was next to no data about the interests of the student population — what led them to choose a particular course, what their capabilities were and so on.
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