‘Survey to access number of institutes,colleges’

Inaugurating the two-day summit,which revolved around a draft white paper which KPMG is working on in partnership with CII on Discovering New Models of Increasing Private Participation in higher education,Secretary,Higher Education,Vibha Puri Das said that allowing for-profit education was not possible in the country as the interests of students could not be thrown to the vagaries of market forces.

She lauded the efforts of the industry in providing a platform where discussion where various kinds of integrative models between government and industry could be discussed and said she looked forward to the white paper and its outcome. Industry,she said,could collaborate with the government specially on vocational education as far as devising and creating curriculum was concerned.

“The government is already working on a vocational education curriculum framework in partnership with industry and talks with automobile companies have already been held on that. A meeting with the information technology sector is scheduled to take place on Thursday in that context,” she said.

The chairman of CII Education Council Arun Bharat Ram,who is also the chairman of SRF Ltd,said at the summit that industry would have to keep the quality aspect of teaching in mind while setting up institutes.