India with a current student population of around 4 million in its
universities and colleges is the third largest system in the world
after USA and USSR. The unprecedented expansion of higher education in
India, which took place in the last four decades, has, however, been
extremely uneven and resulted in the neglect of quality, research and
management aspects. The universities and colleges function much below
their optimal levels and fail even to fulfil their minimum and basic
tasks such as making admissions, completing teaching, conducting
examinations, declaring results and awarding degrees on time. The very
credibility of the higher education system stands eroded.Warning Bells Departments have faculty members that do not hold advanced degrees and
very few hold doctorates from reputed institutions. Those who hold
Ph.Ds have no publications as first author in reputed International
Journals. Too may non-serious actors have intruded into academics. Who
will expose them. Almost 70 % of the faculties in every department in
Universities (including the Cental Univ.) have never published papers
in Int Journals or presented papers since last decade. This is the
group that becomes biggest hindrance to growth of the department &
spoils the environment in the department by creating obstacles to
their colleagues who can produce good work and make them irrelevant.
Such unwanted persons in acadmeics have made a nexus to manipulate
things to their advantage. Promotions of faculties should be on the basis of publications and
research only. Requirement of recommendations and refernaces is the
biggest catalyst in the decay and destruction of higher educationa d
research in India. More than 70 % Ph.Ds and promotions in universities
are bogus due to this loophole and no one is talking about this menace
as all the unwanted ones are breathing through this hole only. A survey of employers shows that only a handful of the 1400
engineering schools in India are recognized as providing world-class
education with graduates worthy of consideration for employment
(Globalization of Engineering Services, 2006). AICTE and UGC have
failed beyond doubt in controlling the quality of staff and
institutes. These are acting like wing of some political party. Many Engineering colleges do not appear to meet the NBA standards, and
yet they are NBA accredited, it does not appear that the NBA criterion
on faculty and staff for accreditation is being applied in any
meaningful manner, suggesting another level of institutional failure. Time to expose the Rajus in Universities and Higher Education The National Policy on Education-1986 was introduced to reorganize and
strengthen the higher education through multi-pronged strategies and
programmes and structural reforms. Policy interventions have, however,
failed to create much impact. There is a need to revamp the governance
framework of the universities and bring in place a rigorous system of
performance audit to stem the rot into the system.
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