Emphasising on the need for uniformity in entrance tests, Nitte Education Trust Chairman N Vinay Hegde said there should be a single entrance test for a particular course throughout the country.
   “Multiplicity of entrance tests should be stopped. There should be a uniform criterion in order to reduce burden and confusions among the student community,” he observed.
   He was speaking after inaugurating Expert Pre-university Science College at a function in Town Hall here on Thursday.
   Stating that education scenario should be away from money power, Mr Hegde said politicians and businessmen should not intervene in educational issues.
   “If money becomes the basis of education, the future of the nation will be in crisis. There is no scope for mediocrity in education. It is a never ending process where quality is the only key word,” he remarked.
‘Become teachers’
   Mr Hegde appealed that at least a part of the proficient students should enter into the teaching profession.  “The notion that teaching is an underpaid profession should be eliminated. It is in fact the noblest profession on earth,” he noted.
   He was of the view that personality development should be the main goal of education.  “Money does not bring satisfaction. It is something that originates from within. Unless a student has a good character and personality, he cannot lead a contended life even if he scores cent per cent in all subjects,” Mr Hegde observed.
   In his address, MLC Capt Ganesh Karnik said Indian integrity with western professionalism is the need of the day. Regretting that ‘Indianness’ is lacking in our education system, he said though the institutions were providing an education, efficient in making students able for the competitive world, it had been becoming sapless due to the imitation of the western culture.
   “It was India that gave the concept of universities to the world, when the western countries were yet to conceive the very concept of education,” Capt Karnik said, naming Nalanda, Takshashila and such.
   Deputy Director of PU Education Sheelavathi Kolambe, Expert Educational and Charitable Foundation Chairman Narendra L Nayak. Trustees Ushaprabha Nayak, Ustad Rafique Khan, the College Principal Dr K Rajendra, Correspondent Dr D Sripathi Rao, Dr G Prem Kumar and others were present.