Sericulture in Higher Education- Challenges

摘要

The conventional pattern of higher education in sericulture has not been successful in providing the required degree of competitive superiority in the volatile employment scenario in the world of modern business, dominated by the strong currents of privatization, liberalization and globalization. True and meaningful vocational training in sericulture is the need of the hour in the universities to garner high level technocrats to meet the present day challenges.rnSericulture in higher educationrnThe idea of imparting sericulture education at higher level was actually realized under "Karnataka Sericulture Project" aided by the World Bank in 1980s that created a history in sericulture education with the introduction of M.Sc., course in sericulture under the Bangalore University. Consequently, there was a spurt of academic programmes in sericulture at graduate, post-graduate and research levels in several universities especially in southern India, mainly in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.