Principal secretary, education, Anju Sharma addressing the event in Surat on Monday
Surat: Entrepreneurs and business representatives scorched authorities of higher education institutes for cold-shouldering their offers to employ talented students and an indifferent attitude towards research and development projects.
The burning issues were brought to fore in the first-of-its-kind meeting between the state education department and industry representatives organized at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU) on Monday. The meeting was called to discuss issues related to employment generation and promoting start-ups.
Principal secretary, education, Anju Sharma, vice-chancellor of Gujarat University, Himanshu Pandya and other top officials of the department were pounded with concerns by business representatives who slammed the education institutes for their cold approach.
Rajul Desai was in Surat on Monday
Surat: Rajul Desai, member of National Commission for Women will push strengthening of the cyber crime police station in the city as well as developing the Cyber Aashvast unit considering the rise in cyber crime against women. Desai, who is set to send a missive in this regard to the state government, will also emphasize on the need to strengthen the Sakhi One Stop Centre (OSC) which is not utilised at its maximum capacity.
In the city on Monday, Desai held meetings with district administration, police and officials of leading educational institutes including Veer Narmad South Gujarat University (VNSGU), Sardar Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology (SVNIT) and Uka Tarsadia University on Monday. She has come to the city was part of her visit to districts of south Gujarat and will visit Navsari, Tapi, Valsad and Dang during the week.
Surat: Many parents in south Gujarat feel the government’s attempt to gradually reopen schools is a welcome move. After more than nine months of online learning, these parents have come to the conclusion that they are better off with offline mode of education the reason mainly hinges on the parents’ own difficulties than their wards’ holistic education.
This was the finding by ‘Parents’ Perception Towards E-learning Offered by Education Institutes in South Gujarat Region: An Emotional Trap’ a study conducted by Hitesh Patel, assistant professor at Bhagvan Mahavir BBA College, Surat, which surveyed 104 men and 90 women in two months.
Surat: Registrar of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University has been instructed to take appropriate actions in serious allegations levelled by syndicate member Sanjay Desai. Desai had filed four complaints with the Gujarat governor in connection with the operations of the university in 2018 and 2019.
These had been immediately forwarded to the education department for required action, but after a delay of several months the varsity has now been told to take actions on it.
Desai had alleged that the former vice-chancellor Shivendra Gupta’s behaviour was unlawful and vindictive and that his actions diffused the atmosphere of restlessness and fear among academia. Other complaints were also about his alleged violation of act and statutes of the university and of the injustice done to scholar professor M G Timol.
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