Chennai: Venkaiiah Naidu vice president on Wednesday called a multidisciplinary increase in higher education to produce knowledgeable individuals from the university and realize the full potential for our demographic dividends.
Speaking on the inauguration functions of the Satyanarayana Motorcur Center for further studies in Humanities at Kria University, Naidu observed that many career trajectories in the coming years will ask employees to have different knowledge in various fields.
Naidu called for the rise of liberal arts and their integration with the stem curriculum (science, technology, technique and mathematics), according to the release by the Deputy President of the Secretariat.
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“Various assessments have shown that the exposure of art and social science resulted in increased creativity, increasing critical thinking, higher social and moral awareness and teamwork and better communication skills among these students in high demand in the 21st century economy where There is no sector from the economy working in silos, “said Vice President.
Naidu also underlines the importance of updating students from the background of the Humanities with the latest technological developments for them to implement this progress in their research studies.
“India has a ‘Parambarah’ holistic education since ancient times.
National Education Policy 2020 recognizes the importance of holistic education and strives to break down ‘rigid and artificial obstacles between disciplines,” he said.
Appreciating college efforts such as IIT Bombay recently introduced interdisciplinary undergraduate courses that include liberal arts, science and engineering in one program, vice president suggests that other institutions must also explore multidisciplinary courses.
Expressing concern for the practice of learning to memorize in schools, Naidu appealed to parents to instill curiosity for art and literature in children from young age.
“In the competition to make it to the top national institutions of science and engineering, we ignore important subjects in schools such as language and social science”, Naidu commented.