1. Address gross academic issues like admissions, syllabi, coordination, faculty strength, teachers training, research etc effectively. Admissions to be made strictly in accordance with the intake capacity of the academic institutions and merit of the aspiring candidates. Syllabi to be updated regularly in tune with changing times and trends. Carry out regular review and reforms of conventional examination and evaluation patterns. A teacher to be evaluated not only for his teaching but also for his research and extension activities. Quality of research work to be drastically improved. Research work to be made more applied and productive.
2. Making more infrastructure, staff, facilities and funds available to colleges and universities. Haphazard and unplanned expansion of higher educational institutes to be halted. Prior to opening up of new colleges, adequate infrastructure, faculty and other facilities to be made available. Diversion of faculty from old to new institutions to be stopped. Adhocism and contractualism to be done away. Sufficient number of fresh posts to be created for newly established institutions.
3. Promulgate a new robust and comprehensive state education policy. Disparities between state and central policies need to be removed. Bridge the gap between academia and policy-makers and frame policies after mutual consultation with academia.
4. Link education with livelihood and make it job-oriented. Professional and vocational education to be fostered and employability to be promoted to alleviate skill-deprivation among students.
5. Stop political interference in academic matters like admissions, appointments, promotions, transfers etc. Recruitment and transfer procedures and policies to be made more transparent and fool-proof.
6. Diversify education by making more subject combinations available right after matriculation. Vertical movement of students to be diversified and made more choice-based at an earlier stage than existing at present.
7. Modify conventional teaching methodologies and introduce recent advances in technology into the teaching-learning process. Switch over from chalk and talk to more interactive mode of teaching and learning by making use of audio-visual aids, e-contents, databases, learning objects etc. Creative skills and competitive spirits of the learners to be encouraged in order to make them accomplished achievers rather than passive knowledge-seekers. Non-scholastic aspects of the learners’ personality to be assessed. Value based education for inculcating ethics and morality among students to be reinforced.
8. Elevate accountability in the system, implement reports and recommendations of various expert committees and statutory bodies like UGC, AICTE, higher education dept. etc. Regular assessment of teachers to be carried out through students. Training and placement of pass-outs to be made an integral part besides conducting refresher courses and QIPs for teachers. Privatization of education to be allowed in a controlled fashion and subject to a strict regulatory mechanism under the aegis of a regulatory authority or higher education council. Partnership to receive thrust over complete privatization. Assessment of all educational institutes by NAAC, NAB etc to be made mandatory and financial support to be provided in accordance with the ranks obtained therein.
9. Augment residential facilities available to students as well as teachers at district, sub-district and block level. Extended library facilities to be made available beyond normal working hours in all degree colleges. Need for greater integration, collaboration and better coordination between primary, secondary, higher secondary and university level education in the state and to have a supervisory council with advisory status for integration of these three units.
10. Academia-industry and academia-society interactions to be enhanced at all levels. Provide greater autonomy to well-established premier degree level colleges, particularly in designing their own curricula, making admissions and conducting examinations/evaluation etc. Distance mode of education to be fostered in view of limited intake capacity in colleges and universities.
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