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Unit 26: Quality Improvement Issues in Higher Education

The university and college education system serves as a catchments area for some quality Notes
centers/departments to emerge as centres of excellence. If the quality of the university and
college education is neglected, it will have limited potential for growth of excellence in terms of
creativity and innovativeness.
• Quality and inclusiveness
• There is another aspect related to quality which needs to be borne in mind. In the 11 Plan the
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goal is expansion with inclusive and quality education. The expansion with inclusiveness
essentially means that increase in enrolment will have to come from the groups whose GER is
low. The studies in this volume indicate that these include groups such as schedule tribe,
scheduled caste, semi-nomadic and de-notified tribes, women, religious minorities like Muslims,
low caste covert to Islam, (SC and OBC Muslim) Buddhism, (Neo-Buddhist) Sikhism,(SC Sikh)
Christianity (Dalit Christian) and poor in general, particularly from the rural areas.
• To provide quality education to these sections which constitute bulk of those with lower access
to higher education is an issue which the 11 Plan recognized. However, an improved access to
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quality education will require special attention for improvement in the language skills and
other capabilities (to those who need), so that they are able to cope up with learning in the
universities and colleges. Therefore quality improvement programs will be necessary for them.
The issue of quality education cannot be de-linked from that of inclusiveness. Therefore, as
mentioned above number of steps are proposed in the 11 plan, including setting up of Equal
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Opportunity Office to deal with all schemes for these social groups. These will help to promote
inclusive education with quality.
• Quality and Academic and Administrative Reforms of University and College System

• Another important constituent for improvement of quality in higher education is the initiative
for academic and administrative reforms in universities and colleges education system. The 11 th
plan recognized the need to introduce the academic reform in the university and college system.
The academic reform necessarily includes changes in admission procedures in various courses;
modification in assessment and examination methods; switch over from annual to semester
systems; acceptance of grade and credit system; teachers assessments; and other related reforms.
• It is now recognized that the admission to various courses as far as possible be made through
written test and viva, particularly for M Phil and PhD, and be transparent in nature.

26.5 Keywords
• Quality : A high standard of something when it is compared to other things like it
how good or bad it is.
• Improvement : The act of making something better.
• Parameters : Something that decides or limits the way in which something can be done.
• Implications : A possible effect or result of an action or a decision.

26.6 Review Questions

1. What are Academic Qualification Framework ?
2. Explain about Regulatory Framework in Higher Education.
3. Discuss about the Growth of Higher Education in India.
4. What are Quality Improvement Issues in Higher Education ?

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