With a view to enhance high quality and obtain excellence in teachers and analysis, there’s have to innovate every sphere of our larger training sector holistically be it curriculum design, educating pedagogies, analysis designs and methodologies, group outreach and extension actions, publishing practices, school enchancment and enrichment programmes, pupil and instructor exchanges with international universities, efficiency linked incentives and profession development, pupil suggestions mechanism, evaluation and accreditation, nationwide rating standards, talent enhancement practices, vocational coaching programmes, inexperienced campus initiatives, pupil placement alternatives, deputation laws, improvement plans and long-term methods for progress and progress of our larger training establishments. Except all these areas are addressed concurrently on a war-footing foundation by way of well-documented insurance policies and procedures, it’s exhausting to re-imagine, redeem and rediscover our universities as world class establishments. Nonetheless by way of persistent brainstorming, policy-planning and well timed execution of our mission statements it won’t be unrealistic to consider changing most of our universities into future-ready larger training establishments of worldwide requirements inside a span of subsequent 10-20 years. All that we have to rework this dream right into a actuality is political will of the federal government, dynamic political and educational management, visionary governance and devoted workforce of our larger training establishments.
Substantial progress in Science and Know-how is the important thing to sustained improvement of any nation within the twenty first century. Holding in view the up to date developments in Science and Know-how on the worldwide stage, Indian universities too have to enunciate a complete coverage framework to synergize science, expertise and innovation to be able to obtain quicker, sustainable and inclusive progress and foster, promote, maintain cultivation of science, scientific mood and scientific analysis in all spheres with particular emphasis on innovation that’s the important driver and sustainer of socio-economic transformation. There may be want to advertise science and expertise training drastically in our universities to be able to create beneficial situations and enabling surroundings for improvements to happen. College improvement and capability constructing within the space of science and expertise assumes prime significance in fostering a scientific mood among the many pupil group. A nicely geared up and expert instructor alone can steer his college students in the direction of the inquisitive and interesting world of science and expertise.
It was with these very goals that the Refresher Course in Science was organized by the UGC-Human Useful resource Growth Centre, College of Kashmir from January 2 to fifteen, 2021 for faculty and college lecturers in accordance with UGC norms. Concept was to reinforce the data, expertise, competencies and understanding of lecturers about numerous vital areas of recent science and expertise. Course was inaugurated on January 2nd by Prof. Talat Ahmad, Vice-Chancellor, College of Kashmir in a powerful on-line session that was chaired by him because the Chief Visitor whereas Registrar, College of Kashmir, Dr. Nisar Ahmad Mir was the Visitor of Honour at this event. Whereas emphasizing upon the significance of science and expertise training Prof. Talat Ahmad underscored the necessity to replace the knowledge-base and talent units of lecturers working in larger training sector in science and expertise as the longer term belongs to this very self-discipline and we have to hold tempo with the speedy developments happening on the world stage on this enviornment.
A complete of 76 school and college lecturers each from inside and outdoors J&Ok attended the course for a interval of twelve days throughout which a complete of 24 lead lectures have been delivered by famend useful resource individuals in science in addition to a complete of 76 participant shows. All of the classes have been extremely interactive that generated a whole lot of debate on numerous problems with excessive significance. Despite chilling winter, frequent energy breakdowns on account of heavy snowfall, sluggish web velocity this educational journey continued uninterrupted and this science competition of two weeks was efficiently accomplished. On the valedictory session of the course that was held on January fifteenth, 2021, Prof. A. G. Ahangar, Director and EOSG, SKIMS, Srinagar was the Chief Visitor whereas Prof. Mohi-Ud-Din Sangmi, Dean School Growth Council, College of Kashmir was the Visitor of Honour. Session was additionally attended by incharge Director, UGC-HRDC, College of Kashmir, Prof. Mushtaq Ahmad Darzi in addition to all of the individuals of the course.
A few of the most burning points that have been mentioned at size throughout the course by famend useful resource individuals of science embody COVID-19 vaccination, particulate air pollution within the Kashmir valley, ecology and long-term ecological analysis, nanoscience, synthetic intelligence; fundamentals, goals and ordeals of analysis, analysis methodology and analysis ethics, antimicrobial resistance, significance of patents, innovation incubation and technopreneurship improvement, biggest feats of organized science, language of the universe, rise of Himalayas, way of life problems, accountable use of medicines; chemistry, clinicians and remedy; local weather change-issues and challenges; gender Audit, gender equality and gender mainstreaming; Nobel prize controversies, significance of psychological well being amid COVID-19 pandemic, vocationalization of training and centrality of proof in Arithmetic. Predominant thought was to refresh the data of individuals about fundamentals of analysis and analysis methodology, significance of patents, scientific publishing, ethics in analysis and scientific publishing, significance of start-ups, innovation incubation and technopreneurship in addition to many different up to date points of worldwide significance.
Eminent useful resource individuals who delivered their lead lectures throughout the course embody Prof. Talat Ahmad, Prof. Mushtaq A. Siddiqi, Prof. M. S. Khuroo, Prof. Devesh Kumar Sinha, Prof. Anil Kumar Mishra, Prof. Parvaiz A. Koul, Prof. Shakil A. Romshoo, Prof. Nilofer Khan, Prof. M. Amin Sofi, Prof. Zafar A. Reshi, Prof. G. Mohiuddin Bhat, Prof. Farooq A. Masoodi, Prof. Syed Ziaur Rehman, Prof. Shariq R. Masoodi, Prof. M. Ashraf Ganie, Prof. Manzoor A. Malik, Prof. M. Ashraf Shah, Prof. S.M. Salim Khan, Prof. Arshad Hussain, Prof. M. A. Chisti, Prof. Fozia Qazi, Prof. Manjiri S. Gharat, Dr. Manzoor A. Shah and Dr. Manzoor A. Chachoo.
Many different points have been coated throughout participant shows a few of which embody bio-orthogonal chemistry, excessive temperature electrical transport and optical research of nanoparticles, nanovaccines and COVID-19, dietary administration of diabetes mellitus, molecular machines, carbon nanotubes in medication and biology, financial significance of micro organism, aquatic macrophyte therapy techniques, environmental impression of riverbed mining, ethno-medicinal makes use of of some wild crops of Kashmir Himalayas, geothermal vitality, cellular expertise with particular emphasis on 5G expertise community, gene remedy, tackling drug resistant tuberculosis, world solidarity, pollen allergy, ICT instruments for lecturers, world cooling and local weather change, statistical physics, e-waste administration, paleoclimate, wild life conservation efforts in J&Ok, scientific and analysis misconduct, cryosphere modifications in J&Ok, whistlers and VLF waves, chemistry of snow flakes, genetically modified meals, environmental points in an unequal world, e-resources, CRISPR/CAS enhancing of crops, depletion of ozone layer, catastrophe proneness of J&Ok and many others.
A number of existential threats appear to be looming massive on the human race and gaining momentum with every passing 12 months within the twenty first century, a few of whom embody catastrophic local weather change and collapse of ecosystems, synthetic super-intelligence and the rise of robots, alarming menace of a nuclear warfare, menace of super-volcanic eruptions and devastating earthquakes, impacts of giant asteroids hitting exhausting upon the earth, organic and chemical warfare, pandemics, anti-microbial resistance and the emergence of incurable illnesses. That is doubly aggravated by the specter of man-made disasters like manufactured, bio-engineered, bio-hazardous super-viruses and micro organism, nuclear terrorism, cyber crime, forest fires, satellite tv for pc junk and outer-space warfare, water wars clubbed with alarming environmental break-down brought on by a spike in carbon emissions, speedy melting of arctic ice, regular rise of worldwide temperatures, erratic and excessive storms assailing coastlines and many others. Below these evolving and difficult circumstances ample data about these potential threats amongst educators may assist discover sustainable options and armour to sort out them of their proper earnest. Moreover solely a robust, collective, pooled and united effort on the world stage may assist us discover options to those rising threats to the existence of mankind on the face of earth.
As per the world financial discussion board “world stands getting ready to a fourth industrial revolution that can basically alter the way in which we reside, work, and relate to 1 one other. In its scale, scope, and complexity, the transformation might be not like something humankind has skilled earlier than. We don’t but know simply the way it will unfold, however one factor is obvious: the response to it have to be built-in and complete, involving all stakeholders of the worldwide polity, from the private and non-private sectors to academia and civil society”. This lays direct focus upon the innovation and upgradation of our science and expertise training incorporating and embracing trendy technological breakthroughs like synthetic intelligence, robotics, massive knowledge analytics, the Web-of-Issues, block chain revolution, autonomous autos, 3-D printing, nanotechnology, biotechnology, supplies science, vitality storage, and quantum computing. It’s excessive time that we improve our curricula in sciences with a view to meet up with the worldwide challenges.
Creator teaches on the Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences and is Coordinator, UGC-HRDC, College of Kashmir
