mysuru following the successful organization of kset examination by university of mysore thrice university grants commission ugc has decided have uom as the agency for conducting the examination for three more years p prakash additional secretary of ugc new delhi said the commission took a decision to this effect a week ago delivering the keynote address at a workshop on the role of universities and colleges in higher education organized by the college development council of uom at vijnan bhavan in manasagangotri here on tuesday he said university of mysore is doing well for higher education hundred years ago the university was started with just four colleges it has grown well over the years now it has over 200 colleges affiliated to it uom having been recognized as potential of excellence is marching ahead ugc was started with just 25 universities having 500 colleges but it has 802 universities with over 36300 colleges today the approval to conduct kset examination for three more years will be sent to uom at the earliesthigher education is at the crossroads on the one hand we have resource crunch and mismatch between demand and supply on the other if we have software to change the mindset of people i will be the first person to put it to such a use in my career i have seen how education field lacks human capital and infrastructure he said adding by 2025 india will be the youngest country with youths in 2530 age group by then india will be also be the largest demographically dividend nation in the world there is a great demand for workforce but the country lacks talent among technical and nontechnical graduates just 23 of technical graduates land jobs while it is 15 among nontechnical graduates there are 860 management institutions in the country but only 78 of those graduating from them get employed every fourth graduate in the world is an indian prakash also highlighted the importance of needbased curricula to enhance quality education he also said that many colleges have not changed their curriculum even after many years needbased curriculum is the need of the hour colleges should come out with curricula keeping the requirements of society and the country in view this apart teachers should also make use of software to improve the quality of education prakash addedspeaking on finances he said many colleges complain that they are not getting proper grants and even if they do it is delayed the principals of such colleges should get updates about public financial management system pfms college having pfms account get grants on timek s rangappa vc of uom s n hegde former vc of uom and s srikantaswamy director of college development council u0m were present