Prof VPS Arora, Vice Chancellor, Supertech University
Japan has 4000 Universities for its 127 million people, the US has 3650 Universities for its 301 million people; and India only 675 Universities for its over 1.25 billion people. Indian GER is about 19% against 83% for USA. The challenges include providing affordable, good quality, and globally relevant education, stifling regulatory overhang, multiplicity of approval regimes and tyranny of agencies often unleashed on the private entrepreneurs. The way forward requires single window and time-bound clearances, level playing arena to private universities, cut in number of statutory bodies, autonomy in governance, periodic third party audit of education quality in private universities and single accreditation body at the national level with empowered regional units.
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