By TCN News,
New Delhi: Renowned British educationist, Professor Elizabeth Grant of the University College, London has contended that the students of Aligarh Muslim University reported a sense of privilege for the opportunity given to them to participate in nation building through higher education.
Prof. Grant’s article “Inheriting the Earth: Competencies and Competition within the Internationalized Curriculum” incorporated in the book “International Students Negotiating Higher Education: Critical Perspectives” (London, Routledge, 2012) edited by Silvia Sovic and Margo Blythman, while analyzing the general perception towards AMU students and their aspirations for building a nice career through higher education, provided a deep study of the campus life in the university and highlighted the aspirations and dreams of the AMU students. She said that the AMU students felt an obligation to “make India a powerful nation”.
Prof. Grant said that the AMU students were engaged in their studies with a great degree of responsibility towards nation and articulated their existence and growth in completely in consonance with religion and nationalism. “Their personal and spiritual development, learning and the search for truth, which they explained to be a part and parcel of a Muslim’s life, with a ‘sense of being’ were the factors driving them to participate in educational development”, she added
Professor AR Kidwai, Director, UGC Academic Staff College, AMU said that Prof. Grant visited the University in February to read her paper at the International Conference on Higher Education organized by the UGC Academic Staff College, AMU and had a detailed discussion with a cross section of the AMU students at the General Education Centre.