Why Excelgate?
The current era witnesses a booming trend of higher education institutions (HEIs), scientific research, and a highly competitive professional environment. However, the following facts are worth noting:
- While the number of HEIs is increasing dramatically, their global recognition in terms of academic quality & accreditation is a serious concern. Most of the HEIs both in public and private sectors need adequate guidance and training to equip themselves to meet the national and international quality standards.
- Most private universities are aiming for autonomy status. However, accomplishing autonomy and maintaining it are challenging.
- As global ranking has become a symbol of recognition, universities need adequate orientation to ensure a reasonable position in the ranking list and to enhance it annually.
- Research excellence has become a necessity rather than a mere symbol of prestige. Many HEIs have started investing on research infrastructure, and hence they look for research-oriented faculty. Also, the academic community has realized that it cannot survive in the current competitive environment without the research and writing skills being developed and utilized properly. This situation calls for effective guidance and training to orient the institutions and researchers towards enhancing their research productivity and writing & publishing skills.
- The rate of increase of academic institutions is far higher than that of job opportunities, which results in highly rigorous and competitive recruitment processes with large rates of rejection. Unfortunately, the academic environment often fails in imparting adequate skills to cope up with the job requirements. Furthermore, the existing gap between the bookish knowledge and the real world is getting widened day by day. This could be addressed only through proper campus-training beyond the curriculum and enhanced industry-institute interactions.
- The students who look for higher studies opportunities need proper guidance to find the best universities and study programs, scholarship options, prospects to grow in the field, and employability potential.
- There is lack of proper guidance and motivation for the job-aspirants to identify their potential and find the most appropriate employer.
- In this digital era, when the entire world relies on digital media for up-to-date information, there exists a big demand for an exclusive digital (television) channel for education, scientific research, employment and all related information.