Dimapur, July 13 (EMN): Governor PB Acharya on Friday said ‘conventional degrees should be supplemented by skill courses’ in colleges.
He was speaking at the annual conference-cum-seminar of the Nagaland College Principals’ Forum (NCPF) at Sazolie College in Jotsoma, according to a Raj Bhavan press release. “Governor Acharya said that we need an education system to strengthen, empower and develop the youth of the nation and opined that educational institutions play a very important role in nation-building.
“He said that skill development was the driving force behind the financial growth of any country and skill building was a powerful tool to empower individuals and improve their social acceptance. He stated that the challenge lies in quantitative and qualitative expansion of facilities for skill training and called on the Principals to impart the right knowledge and skill to their students. Our students when they come out of colleges should be employable,” the statement reported him as saying.
Acharya asked the principals to ‘play their role towards the development of the state.’ He urged the colleges to visit villages at regular intervals and to identify the beneficiaries for central and state flagship programmes for the development of the state.
The president of the Association of Indian College Principals (AICP), Prof. Dr. Subhash Brahmbhatt, while delivering a speech on behalf of AICP, said that principals should work for the quality of education and urged them to find ways to inculcate the right knowledge to students. He also encouraged the principals to get their colleges to go for NAC accreditation ‘as it will be needed in the years to come.’
