Teachers: The Most valuable Asset of any Society

Teachers: The Most valuable Asset of any Society • A teacher is a gift from God who brings out the gifts in others. • Let us take time to honor and thank our teachers for their hard work and dedication to investing in future generations! • It is true that No Society can rise above the level of its Teachers - Anonymous

RESEARCH : AN integral component of higher education Dr. V. S Jayakumar TWO DAY ORIENTATION PROGRAMME CORPORATE MANAGEMENT OF MOC COLLEGES, DEVALOKAM, KOTTAYAM 16 May 2014

Quality Education that Nurtures Talent, Creativity and Innovationis the need of the hour • Talent has become the world's most sought-after commodity. The shortage is causing serious problems • The battle for brainpower is the real challenge we are facing today • “The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.” Winston Churchill (1943) which means that The battles of the future will be battles for talent

Prototypical U.S. Industry …in 10 years if all goes well

What is Research ?? • Research is innovating solutions for problems and challenges applying our education and knowledge • Research is trying to solve the problems others cannot see • Research is that which enables improvement of any system

Higher Education and Research • Education is aimed at transforming lives. • Higher education should create leaders for various sectors of society to innovate real solutions to improve lives of people • Up to secondary education students use knowledge from their curriculum to enhance their wisdom and get transformed • In higher education they are expected to be engaged in the exercise for creation of new knowledge in their field of study

Levels of Learning • Knowledge level or ROTE learning • Understanding level • Applications level • Psycho-motor or Research level • Ideally, in high school class student should be exposed to all these levels • In higher education, learner should be in level 3 and 4 • +1, +2 classes are to bridge and equip the learner for research level activity

Higher Education in the New Century: • Themes, Challenges, and Opportunities • A Social Transformation The 20th Century Transportation Cars, planes, trains Energy, materials Nation-states Public Policy The 21st Century Communications Computers, networks Knowledge, bits Nationalism Markets

The Age of Knowledge Educated people and ideas Prosperity Security Social well-being Educated people are the most valuable resource for 21st century societies and their institutions!!!

The Forces of Change • The Age of Knowledge • The Knowledge Explosion • Globalization • The High Performance Workplace • Diversity • Accelerating Technological Change • Nonlinear Knowledge Transfer • Changing Societal Needs • Financial Imperatives • Technology Drivers • Market Forces

Forces of Change • A Changing World • The Knowledge Explosion • Globalization • High Performance Workplace • Diversity • Technological Change • Knowledge Transfer Forces on the University Economics Societal Needs Technology Markets We cannot ignore the changing world around us and the demand for a proper response from the University level institutions

The Future of the University? • “Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won’t survive. It is as large a change as when we first got the printed book.”– Peter Drucker • “If you believe that an institution that has survived for a millennium cannot disappear in just a few decades, just ask yourself what has happened to the family farm.” – William Wulf • “I wonder at times if we are not like the dinosaurs, looking up at the sky at the approaching comet and wondering whether it has an implication for our future.”– Frank Rhodes

Why Research ?? • Why Research is considered an integral component of Higher Education ? • The world is changing rapidly. The magnitude of the change is beyond our imagination. • This is an era of intellectual capital. As a nation, state and as a society we have to be extremely vigilant and committed resolutely to exploit the opportunities emerging from the challenges as we enter this new era

Why Research ?? • An educational institution primarily Deals with knowledge. What distinguishes a first rate institution from an ordinary /mediocre one is the intellectual and academic ambience that exists there. This is something that cannot be brought from outside, but has to be carefully generated and sustained by all the stakeholders within the institution itself through conscious efforts. • Three important functions of an ideal Higher Education Institution are: • Creation of knowledge • Transmission of knowledge • Utilisation of knowledge

Why Research ?? • There is an urgent need for the mobilisation and maximum possible use of our talents and capabilities towards creation of knowledge relevant to our needs and challenges if we are to establish our supremacy in the knowledge or intellectual era

Research Excellence is within your reach, if you can : • ...risk more than others think is safe; • ...dream more than others think is practical; • ...expect more than others think is possible.” • ...care more than others think is wise;

Traditional Roles of a University Teaching & Scholarship Educating the Young Seeking Truth and Creating New Knowledge Sustaining and Propagating Culture and Values Serving as a Social Critic Sustaining Academic Disciplines and Professions Critical Thinking Analysis and Problem Solving Moral Reasoning and Judgment

The Traditional Roles of the University • Economic Development (Agriculture, Industry, etc.) Technology Transfer Health Care Teaching and Scholarship Entertainment (Arts, Sports) National Defense International Development

Research should be relevant to society • For science, the research should be more related to technology and industrial applications relevant to the society • For humanities , arts , literature and commerce there are a large number of socially relevant issues that could be undertaken for the study/research