In a bid to improve education quality in the state, the
Andhra Pradesh (AP) government has sought help of 18 highly qualified students
from reputed universities in India and across the globe.
What would the 'Summer Fellows' do?
These selected youngsters would be 'Summer Fellows' of the
AP government who would study and assimilate best of global practices in higher
education to come up with practically feasible programmes to help improve the
quality of state universities.
Students from esteemed institutes like IITs, BITS-Pilani,
Columbia University, ISB, National University of Singapore, St. Stephen's and
others from both under-graduate, post-graduate courses and those conducting
research will work for the AP government for the next couple of months,
starting early next week.
They will look around the public universities and while
looking into the current scenario will come up with plans to improve the
standard of the universities along with scaling up of skills, initiating
entrepreneurial abilities, enhancing research outputs etc.
What is the plan of AP govt?
The AP government wants to eventually transform the state
into a 'knowledge hub' for creating a pool of human talent so that it helps
improve higher education, making it relevant to the modern requirements.
How did this idea germinate?
The government took the idea from the Economic Development
Board of the Finance Department, which had successfully conducted the summer
fellowship programme last year.
How were the 'Summer Fellows' chosen?
Over 300 applications were received by the state government
for higher education. The applicants included working professionals. Initially,
90 people were shortlisted on the basis of their essays about their vision on
how to go about doing things in their preferred area of work.
After going through the CVs of the shortlisted candidates,
45 were interviewed via Skype and, finally, 18 were selected.
Source:- Indiatoday
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