Fracas over Privatisation, Quality Assurance and Corruption in Indian higher education

Abstract

It is well recognised that for a bright future country needs to strengthen its higher education roots first. If India wants to be a major player in the emerging knowledge-based economies, then it will have to go in for a major overhaul of its higher education system. Government of India needs to come out with policies and regulations that can bring effective and timely changes in this sector and enhance its reputation on the global platform. There is the need for a clear vision. Policy makers have to introspect the state of affairs of higher education critically. The maladies and deficiencies in India's higher education system need urgently to be addressed by making it more professional and creative and less bureaucratic and political. To realize where we have gone wrong we need honesty of purpose and sincere articulation of the issue. Let the politicians see it as a legitimate aspiration of people that those in policy making will respond to it. It is to be realised that higher education is no longer a luxury and a corruption free education system is essential to national, social and economic development.

Keywords: Higher education administration, assessment, quality issues, quality assurance