‘Restructure courses, build institutions’ | Vadodara News – Times of India

Vadodara/ Anand: Restructuring academic courses, building new institutions of global standards and simultaneously strengthening the existing institutions and making them globally competitive are the needs of the hour, said Dr Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, president of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi. “These steps will turn India into a destination country, attracting students from across the globe,” Sahasrabuddhe said in his ddress at the 64th annual convocation at Sardar Patel University (SPU) in on Sunday.
Gujarat governor Acharya Devvrat, who presided over the ceremony, presented gold medals to 120 students apart from conferring degrees to all the passing graduates.
“India is ranked 26th in the list of preferred study destinations whereas it is the third largest source country of students desirous of studying abroad,” said Sahasrabuddhe. He said a new category of academic courses can be introduced as international courses apart from short-term courses in traditional Indian knowledge systems.