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