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Fifth
Foundation Day |
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Professor Ram Takwale
is one of the most acclaimed educationist
in the country. Coming from a rural
background, he finished his higher
education from Pune and obtained for
Ph.D from Moscow State University.
He was the Vice Chancellor of three
Universities : Pune University, Pune
(1978-84), YCMOU, Nashik (1989-95)
and IGNOU, New Delhi (1995-98). He
was also the Chairman of Executive
Committee of NAAC, Bangalore (2003-04),
President of The AIU (1994), President
of AAOU (1995-98), and member of COL
Review Committee and Regional Advisor
(South Asia) to the President of COL.
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Professor Takwale is a
Director of the Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation
(MKCL) founded by the Government of Maharashtra
and universities in Maharashtra in 2001.
Professor Takwale is the
recipient of honorary Doctorate & D.
Litt. Degrees and many other prestigious,
honors & awards. He is presently a member
of Rajiv Gandhi Science & Technology
Commission of Maharashtra, Professor Emeritus
in the University of Pune, Yashwantrao Chavan
Maharashtra Open University, Nashik and
Chairman of the Education Sub-Committee
of Mahratta Chamber of Commerce, Industries
and Agriculture (MCCIA), Pune.
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| Professor
Takwale releasing a Position Paper on ‘Foreign
Providers of Higher Education in India’
on the occasion of Fifth Foundation Day 11th
January 2007 |
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While delivering the Fifth Foundation
Day Lecture of Dr. D. Y. Patil University in the
auditorium of Padmashree Dr. D. Y. Patil Medical
College, Pimpri, Pune, Professor Ram Takwale congratulated
the Vice Chancellor and the officials of the University
as well as the faculty and the students, for the
splendid academic growth achieved in all the seven
constituent colleges in health sciences, biotechnology
and management streams. He specifically mentioned
the excellent infrastructure, established identity,
good vision and mission as the key tracks for
the growth of the organization.
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In his overview he discussed at length
the aspects of Globalization and Knowledge Society,
Role of the Vice Chancellor in Today's Knowledge Era
and Future Development of Professional Universities.
While elaborating on the function of universities in
the knowledge age, he stressed the use of networking
with special mention of convergence of technologies,
access to the technologies, knowledge grid, information
retrieval, strong marketing strategies, quality and
cost-competitiveness, innovation, creativity, and entrepreneurship
as the differential points to achieve excellence. Information
technologies, education resources movement and self-organisation
around knowledge resources are some of the new processes
that the Indian Universities must adopt to compete in
the Global Age.
Professor Takwale categorically mentioned
that in this era of globalization the Vice Chancellors
must adopt IT Infrastructure for paperless governance.
He further spotlighted the role of Vice Chancellors
in modern teaching-learning process with the optimum
use of the available educational resources. The concept
of virtual consortium with universities in India and
abroad and community linkages at local and global level
was put forward by him as the important points to cope
up with global needs.
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