Jawaharlal Nehru University Vice-Chancellor Dr Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit has said that the education system in the country so far has only been a blind imitation. She said the new National Education Policy could build a stronger society and lead to reforms.
Pandit made the comments while inaugurating the recent Higher Education Teachers' Sangh's silver jubilee conference in Kochi.
The meeting was presided over by the association's president Dr K. Sivaprasad.
Santishree Pandit is the first woman vice-chancellor of JNU. She was appointed to the position in February. Pandit (59) had been a political science professor at the Savitribai Phule University in Maharashtra.
Pandit obtained her bachelors degree in history and social psychology from Presidency College in Chennai. She obtained her PhD in international relations from JNU in 1990. Pandit also obtained a post-doctoral diploma in peace and conflict studies from Sweden's Uppsala University in 1995.
