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Arun Nigavekar


Dr. Arun Nigavekar is an educationist. He was the Chairperson & Vice-Chairperson of UGC (University Grants Commission) from 2000 to 2005. Dr. Nigavekar also was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Pune, considered to be one of the best universities in India.

Dr. Nigavekar also helped established the National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) body and as such he was the Founder Director. Dr APJ Kalam, the former President of India has aptly christened him as the 'Father of Quality Education in India'. He is considered to be one of the most revolutionary thinkers of education in the country. He is a Raja Ramanna Fellow. Dr. Nigavekar is a Physicist and has Ph D in Solid State Physics.

Professor Arun Nigavekar, born in 1942, is a well-known Physicist and renowned educationist with 45 years of experience. His significant contributions have been use of technology for enhancement of utility and quality of higher education and internationalization of higher education. The path breaking one being an initialisation of concept of Quality in Higher Education, for which he was aptly called as a father of quality movement in higher education in India by none other than the Former President of India, Honorable Dr APJ Abdul Kalam. He was a Dakshina Fellowship holder of Rajaram College in Kolhapur and got educated in Pune and Uppsala in Sweden where he held SIDA Fellowship.

He was Chairman and Vice Chairman of UGC between 2000 & 2005. He was a moving force behind formulating of strategy for development of higher education in the Tenth Plan of Government of India. Before coming to Delhi he was a Vice Chancellor of University of Pune, a university that attained a status of University with Potential for Excellence under his leadership.

He has held several positions. Basically a Professor in Materials Science in Pune University since 1977, he established Center for Advanced Studies in Physics in Pune in 1980. He has 70 research publications to his credit. He was a Director of Educational Media Research Center in Pune and established Communication Science Department in Pune University in nineties. He was a Visiting Professor in University of York in U.K. and University of Western Ontario in Canada in eighties. His contributions in science education, as a founder editor of Physics Educational Journal, a journal of international repute, are recognized globally. He is a permanent member and was Vice-Chairman of Asian Physics Education Network, a UNESCO organization.


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