Vol. 9(5), pp. 105-110, July, 2021.

ISSN: 2384-6151

https://doi.org/10.14662/ijebm2021105

 

 

Full Length Research

 

Quality and Relevance in Indian Higher Education Institutions

 

1Dr. Kandi Kamala, Asst Professor and 2Dr. Gedam Kamalakar

 

1Dept. of Political Science, Government Degree College for Women (Autonomous) Begumpet, (Affiliation) of Osmania University, Hyderabad, Telangana State, India, 500016. Corresponding author’s E-mail:kamala.ranu@gmail.com  

2Dept of Political Science Osmania University Hyderabad Telangana India 500007 E-mail: kamalakarou@gmail.com, Tel. 9182936331

 

 

Accepted 22 June 2021

Abstract

 

Education Policy lays particular emphasis on the development of the creative potential of each individual. It is based on the principle that education must develop not only cognitive capacities - both the ‘foundational capacities ’of literacy and numeracy and ‘higher-order’ cognitive capacities, such as critical thinking and problem solving – but also social, ethical, and emotional capacities. The new education policy must provide to all students irrespective of their place of residence, a quality education system, with particular focus on historically marginalized, disadvantaged, and underrepresented groups. In India, the demand for higher education is rapidly increasing along with the challenges of quality and sustenance. The focus of Indian higher education system for a long time was on establishing higher education institutions (HEIs) to give opportunity to the students to graduate themselves and seek jobs. This has lead to massive increase in number of institutions and the number of students going for higher education. But the system did not get required attention towards quality and fitness of purpose. Consequently, the system grew with several gaps like skill gaps, research gaps, relevance gaps etc., which got converted into issues like access, equity, quality and employability. The system underwent several reforms and passed through several stages of transformation in order to address these issues, but still they remain unresolved to a large extent. It is high time that the Indian higher education system gears up with appropriate measures to put the system on right track. Implementation of valuable recommendations given by the education commissions and committees set up time to time in real sense of term would help in the process in a big way. The HEIs should be ready with positive mindset as well as readiness to implement the recommendations of the New Education Policy as soon as it is launched. Institutions like National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC), National Board of Accreditation (NBA) which are responsible for quality assurance and act as motivators to the institutions need to be strengthened.

 

Keywords: NAAC; HEIs; NBA; ICT; MHRD; NPE

 

Cite This Article As: Kamala, K., Kamalakar, G. (2021). Quality and Relevance in Indian Higher Education Institutions. Inter. J. Econ. Bus. Manage. 9(5): 105-110