New Delhi, January 04: The Centre plans to revive the ancient university of Nalanda, which was once a world renowned seat of knowledge in Asia, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.
“One of the initiatives in higher education will be to establish the Nalanda University that will revive India’s ancient academic and intellectual links with East Asia,” Singh said after launching the Higher Education Scholarship Scheme of the Kerala Government in Thiruvananthapuram.
He said the Government was working hard to revolutionise the higher education system so that India could become one of the premier centres of education it once was.
Lauding Kerala’s achievements in the education sector, he said the state was now the nerve centre of the country’s space programme and that was why it was chosen as a location for the Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology.
Singh said it was important to change the way in which universities were managed to ensure that they became world class centres of learning.
“They (universities) should create an atmosphere where intellectual inquiry, originality and ingenunity are encouraged rather than (allowing an) academic rote,” he said.
—Agencies