‘Students should be taught ethical values on higher education campuses’
Commissioner of Collegiate Education P. Ponniah emphasized the importance of teaching ethical values and social responsibility to students during a function at Lady Doak College. The event also marked the college's anniversary and the release of a new guide on service-learning.
Why it matters
The focus on ethics in higher education highlights a growing emphasis on character development alongside academic achievement in Indian universities.
True leadership was founded on service, responsibility and integrity, said Commissioner of Collegiate Education P. Ponniah here on Thursday.
Speaking at a function organised at Lady Doak College, he emphasised the transformative role of higher education in nurturing knowledge and creativity. Students should be taught ethical values and social responsibility on the campuses of higher education, he said.
The role of academics went beyond curricula and syllabus. The students should be familiar with their duties and responsibilities in society when they left the campuses as graduates, he said and appealed to the faculty members to disseminate good qualities among youngsters.
In her address, Principal and college secretary R. Beulah Jayashree traced the institution’s 78-year legacy of excellence and presented the founder’s day video, ‘A Chronicle Etched in Time’, highlighting the vision and the values of the college founder, Katie Wilcox.
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