FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATE

SEMESTER SYSTEM AND META

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY AND

META FACULTY RESOURCES

APPROPRIATION

DR. DEVINDER K. KANSALPrincipal, Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education &

Sports Sciences

&

Head, Deptt. of Physical Education & Sports Sciences (University of Delhi)

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If, we consider the available figures of

Indian graduates in the financial year

2003-04, we find that 45% students

did B.A., 20% did B.Sc., 18% did

B.Com. and only 17% did professional

courses.

OVERVIEW

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The lower output in science and technology

is due to lower availability of seats. This is

also evident from the fact that coaching

business is getting bigger than the

education business (6,00,000 applicants for

only 6000 seats available for IIT, IIM and

other management schools, expend about

Rs.12000 crores on getting coaching for the

entrance exam.

LESSER SEATS IN EMPLOYABLE

COURSES

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We should plan to provide atleast 10%

seats or 60,000 seats in place of 6000

for 6 Lacs aspirants preparing

enthusiastically through heavy

coaching fees) for IITs & IIMs.

EXPANSION OF SEATS

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Thus, in order to convert 45%

unemployable graduates through

simple B.A. and to improve

employability among the entire 100%

graduate degree holders, it is very

important to add some additional

empowering skills and practical hands

on experience by adding one addition

year of learning.

EMPOWERING SKILLS

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The non-existent department of

‘Measurement & Evaluation’ in the

universities has caused very dearly

resulting in extremely invalid

accreditation systems mainly based

on nominal scales in place of

scientifically valid interval and ratio

scales.

CREATION OF M & E DEPTT.

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UGC is the biggest regulatory and

statutory body, unfortunately without

having any academic departments of

its own (unlike NCERT).

UGC WITHOUT ACADEMIC

DEPARTMENTS

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Accreditation through NAAC is neither

scientific nor valid without including any

variables on pedagogy, teaching resources

being used and produced by the

institutions being evaluated.

Even UNESCO Commission recommend-

ations have been ignored in NAAC criteria.

NAAC USING NOMINAL SCALES

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Neither UGC has any ‘standardized’

course contents with prescribed single

text book for each undergraduate

course nor NAAC has taken into its

consideration this point into its

accreditation tool.

UNAUTHENTICATED COURSES

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Only wholisitc education with

empowered youth with basic

knowledge of evaluation needed to

learn problem solving art is the only

solution.

WHOLISTIC EDUCATION

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Wholistic personality development as

well as management & measurement

skills must be included by converting

3 year existing programme to 4 year

undergraduate programme.

WHOLISTIC PERSONALITY

DEVELOPMENT

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Now for facilitating above paradigm

changes of introducing vocational skill

training, wholistic personality develop-

ment and practical management skills,

we must introduce the concept of

meta college & meta university.

META COLLEGE & META

UNIVERSITY

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Where the students from one college

may visit by rotation of semester

learning in more than one college or

university, the college is known as a

meta-college or meta university

respectively.

META-COLLEGE MEANING

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With the rapid growth in knowledge on

personal development skills nations like

India having young population may

encash the opportunity of providing

trained man power and outsourcing

services to more developed countries

having lower ratio of younger generation

to elderly population.

INTRODUCTION AND PHILOSOPHY

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Education subjects must be classified

through a trinomial system based on

three educational domains like the

binomial scientific and standardized

classification of plants and animals.

EDUCATIONAL TAXONOMY

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The existing three year unproductive

undergraduate university system

(more so if in annual mode) may be

converted to empowering, enabling

and productive four year under-

graduate courses like engineering

courses.

FOUR YEAR UNDERGRADUATION

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The existing talents available in

specialized institutions and advanced

centres of learning may serve much

wider students population than their

own students by introducing meta-

college, meta-university and meta

faculty (one teacher teaches students

of more than one college) system.

META-FACULTY APPROPRIATION

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The logical courses based on primary,

secondary and tertiary human needs

may enable and empower our youth

through 4 year semester courses.

LOGICAL UTILITARIAN

EDUCATION

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There are non-existent arrangements

for the management of implement-

ation of resolutions of UNESCO’s

Delors Commission Report on four

pillars of education. Higher Education

institution must introduce the

Department of Measurement &

Evaluation as a component of CAKE.

MODERNIZING HIGHER

EDUCATION

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Non-existent arrangements for regular

updating of core courses containing

representation to all domains of

education is possible by creating a

scientific CAKE (Centre of Application

of Knowledge Evaluated).

C A K E

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Non-existent arrangements for the

management of interdepartmental

subjects inter-disciplinary domains of

education e.g. Psychology, Education,

Anthropology, Physical Education,

Biochemistry and multidisciplinary

environmental studies etc. remain

underdeveloped.

CAKE FOR INTER-DISCIPLINARY

PROMOTION

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Unconsciously, incomplete education

about daily utilitarian facts e.g. each

human being is an aggregate of 60-

100 trillion individual cells of 10 µm

sizes arranged in 11 body systems of

which neutrons lined up make 3000

miles while blood vessels if lined up

make 10000 miles.

FILLING GAPS IN EDUCATION

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There are 2-3 billion genes in each

cell, each gene is made up of millions

of nucleotides (deoxyribose nucleic

acids. Each cells has complete set of

DNA (genes) except RBCs in human

body.

DNA KNOWLEDGE FOR PD

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Management of subjects scientific

classification and implementation of

scientific facts as per four pillars of

education set by UNCESCO’s Delors

Commission Report, USA’s 1996

Surgeon General’s report etc.

Possible only for enabling students

through 4 year undergraduate course.

REMEDY : FOUR YEAR

UNDERGRADUATE COURSE

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Body mass, smoking, index, and exercise

patterns in midlife and late adulthood are

predictors of subsequent disability. Not

only do persons with better health habits

survive longer, but in such persons,

disability is postponed and compressed into

fewer years at the end of life.

- James F. Fries, M.D.

WELLNESS EDUCATION FOR ALL

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