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Dear Editors,
Taken at face value, the last decade has registered
a spectacular achievement in education, a crucial
area of national development. This quantitative
development has no parallel in the history of higher
education in the country.
However, the sustainability of this performance is
fundamentally determined by its link to the
socioeconomic context which it is supposed to
serve. Consequently, the creation of sustainable
linkage or the desire to do so
presupposes institutional preparedness.
But the current institutional arrangement seems to
be very weak. An overview of the ongoing educational
process, both in the governmental and the private
higher educational institutes alike, seem to be
lacking a realistic standard. Though a tremendous
quantitative change in terms of the number of
graduates exists, one cannot see an independent,
research based and context tailored curriculum
planning at national and institutional levels.
Borrowing courses from abroad without making
organised attempts to adapt to the national context
and “filling” students with little or no
evidence-based information is just repeating the old
way. If this pattern continues, sooner or later, the
efforts of higher education in the country may prove
to be a disaster.
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