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Educational Management

Notes (ii) Master’s degree is normally of two years duration in both liberal and professional field of
study.
(iii) A state university in India is established by the Central Government, by state legislation.
(iv) Enrolment in higher Education has been rising steadily.
(v) Due to regional disparity in economic development and uneven distribution of institutions
of higher education, the higher Education is equally available to the different sections of the
society.
(vi) India being a signatory of WTO is bound to open up its market for trade in services including
education
(vii) Open University can be a central or state University imparting education through distance
made.

What is Gross enrolment rate GER ?

26.4 Summary

• In India, higher education was traditionally looked after by the government, but in view of lack
of resources to meet the increasing demand, private sector has been allowed to share the
responsibility. The country has a well developed educational set up in terms of range of programs
and their acceptability in local industry, but it lacks in terms of international quality standards.
Higher education institutions managed by private sector emphasize more on commercial aspect
than creation of knowledge which leads to deterioration of quality of education. The councils
and government bodies responsible for quality assurance do not have internationally matchable
quality norms on one hand and an effective system to monitor and control violation of the
existing norms by the institutions on the other. Further, the political parties manipulate the
issues of access and equity in higher education for their vested political interest rather than
taking the right steps to enhance the quality of higher education. As a result those who can
afford the high cost of higher education look forward for the opportunities abroad while the
others have to compromise with sub-standard education. If India has to emerge as preferred
location for higher education in the globalizing world it will have to develop a national policy
to address the challenges of sub-standard quality, ineffective systems of monitoring and control,
red-tapism in growth and development and political interference.
• Regular internal self assessment and self monitoring of quality and excellence. Both steps will
help to present an all India quality, map of the universities and colleges.
• Quality and Excellence linkages
• The UGC recognizes the difference between quality and excellence. It recognized that excellence
may not be enhanced without quality education in the vast institutions of higher learning,
namely the universities and colleges. If only 9 universities and 100 colleges are recognized as
potential for excellence and only 520 centers/departments have been identified as those with
various level of excellence, it is because the universities and colleges suffer from the lack of
adequate academic and physical infrastructure. This implies that a focus on improving the
academic and physical infrastructure for quality improvement is pre-condition. It is the presence
of quality institutions which will generate and induce excellence in terms of creativity and
innovativeness among the teachers and students. Excellence cannot be imposed from above.
Good quality institutions lead to emergence of excellence in terms of creativity and
innovativeness. In other words, without quality the excellence will not emerge and grow. The
Quality education, at the college and university level, serves as a ground for excellence to grow.

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