HYDERABAD: DP Singh, chairman of the University Grants Commission (UGC), has said that students graduating this year would be the main stakeholders of the country after 25 years, when India would be celebrating its 100th year of independence.
The UGC chairman was speaking at the 11th virtual convocation ceremony of the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education held on Friday.
During the convocation, 2,287 students of class 2021 received their degrees. Of them, six students were conferred PhD degrees and 1,198 students were awarded MBA degrees. In the other streams, 10 LLM, 95 BBA-LLB (Hons), 23 BA-LLB (Hons), 264 BTech and 674 BBA degrees were awarded. Distance mode MMS degrees too were awarded to 17 students.
The UGC chairman emphasized that higher educational institutions should focus on holistic education through inculcation of human values and professional ethics. “Today we are witnessing both- transformation through education and transformation in education by our National Education Policy (NEP),” said Singh.
Expressing concerns about employability of youth, Singh said that the NEP guidelines have embedded employability support into the curriculum. Touching upon the gender imbalance in workforce, he said that institutes like ICFAI have to work with communities to address this imbalance.
