Higher Education in India - The Need for Change

Pawan Agarwal
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Pawan Agarwal: Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations

Development Economics Working Papers from East Asian Bureau of Economic Research

Abstract: Higher education in India suffers from several systemic deficiencies. As a result, it continues to provide graduates that are unemployable despite emerging shortages of skilled manpower in an increasing number of sectors. The standards of academic research are low and declining. Some of the problems of the Indian higher education, such as the unwieldy affiliating system, inflexible academic structure, uneven capacity across various subjects, eroding autonomy of academic institutions, and the low level of public funding are well known. Many other concerns relating to the dysfunctional regulatory environment, the accreditation system that has low coverage and no consequences, absence of incentives for performing well, and the unjust public funding policies are not well recognised. Driven by populism and in the absence of good data, there is little informed public debate on higher education in India.

Keywords: reforms in education; Quality assurance in education; funding of higher education; Regulating Higher Education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I22 I28 J44 O32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01
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