Showing posts with label Commission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Commission. Show all posts

Friday, December 30, 2011

A new bill in town

Another Bill. As if we did not have enough bills already!

The newest one – the Higher Education and Research Bill 2011 seeks to establish the National Commission on Higher Education and Research (NCHER), an overarching regulatory body for university education including vocational, technical, professional and medical education.

The Bill will promote autonomy of higher education and innovation and provide for comprehensive and integrated growth of higher education and research keeping in view the global standards of educational and research practices, for which it will establish the National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER).

The NCHER will facilitate determination, coordination, maintenance and continued enhancement of standards of higher education and research other than agricultural education and matters pertaining to minimum standard of medical education as are the subject of proposed National Commission on Human Resources in Health (NCHRH).

So far so good.

The existing regulatory bodies including the University Grants Commission and the All India Council for Technical Education will subsequently be scrapped.

All that’s left now is to wait for this and all the others (reportedly 11) to be cleared. Some backlog indeed!

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Technically Challenged?


In light of the recent debate on the academic quality at our Indian Institutes of Technology, thanks to Narayana Murthy's comment, I reproduce here an article I had written on the need to revamp technical education for the Education Times (Times of India) in 2009.
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