lucknow the syllabus being taught in state universities for over a decade needs urgent and regular revision under graduate courses should introduce skillbased modules with special emphasis on english communication and information technology old fee structure in the state universities needs to be reviewed thus making it realistic the vicechancellors of most state universities in up strongly emphasised the said things on first day of the twoday vcs conference held in lucknow state universities need to raise modules that are market driven in order to increase employability a module on english hindi also and computer skills should be made mandatory for ug students the content for the modules should be based on the market survey experience of the employers said a vc except for professional courses employability is less than 5 in regular ones running in state universities the challenge today in changing the curricula to meet industry demands academics said is resistance from teachers many teachers oppose the idea of revising the syllabus more so because they dont want to understand and work as per the market needs said another vc who attended the conference like iits state universities should include foundational skillbased and vocational courses to make students employable there were also discussions on making fee both for selffinance and regular courses more realistic with financial liability increasing and government not ready to increase the grants revision of fees is must money charged from students for regular courses is very low said academics vcs unanimously said quantitative expansion quality improvement and ensuring equity in higher education is the need of the hour more universities need to be set up surveillance of specific education colleges like b ed law colleges dental colleges homeopathic colleges and medical colleges is important to ensure professional monitoring it will also ease the workload on conventional universities in the state said a vc deliberations were made on the need for expansion in higher education and more flexible approach needs to be adopted to invest in it the current rigid and restrictive policies need to be eased further said academics while doing this total transparency is to be ensured the responsibility of financial governance in higher education will continue to rest with state government to ensure efficiency and equity inclusive development of higher education will remain a duty of the government said a vc common software needs to be developed at the state level for budgets of university to enable easy monitoring and comparability