Prof. Ved Prakash

Success of Higher Education Commission of India depends on good leadership

February 15, 2021

The National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 has recommended complete overhaul of the regulatory mechanism. It has recommended that there would be only one umbrella institution, the Higher Education Commission of India (HECI), which will be responsible for the overall growth and development of higher education in the country. An attempt...

Articulating the vision of New Higher Education Commission of India

February 8, 2021

The University Education Commission (UEC), 1948-49, set up immediately after India attained Independence, had laid the foundation for an institutional mechanism in the form of the University Grants Commission (UGC) to oversee the development of higher education in the country. Over the years, the UGC has grown and evolved in...

THE NEED TO RETHINK THE QUALITY OF HIGHER EDUCATION

February 3, 2021

Education is a subject that has continued to evolve and has extended its reach and coverage since the dawn of human history. It is evident from recorded history that societies have played an important role in the spread of education, all the way from the earliest time to the present...

Vocationalisation for harnessing the demographic dividend

January 25, 2021

India at present is recognised as one of the youngest nations in the world with about 61 crore children under the age of 23. It is estimated that soon India will have about 20% of the world’s total workforce. In order to harness the full demographic dividend, India needs an...

COMBATING THE MENACE OF FAKE UNIVERSITIES IN INDIA

January 19, 2021

There may hardly be a place which is free from the dubious presence of fake universities. A fake university is an entity which fraudulently claims to be a university. It does not have any authority to award any diploma or a degree. It uses unscrupulous means in giving out certificates,...

It’s time to rethink how we appoint Vice-Chancellors

January 11, 2021

It was Sir Charles Wood who, in 1854, had recommended the establishment of three universities in India. Consequently, three universities were founded in 1857 in the port cities of Calcutta, Bombay and Madras. These universities were started on the model of the London University, consisting of a Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and...

Caution against undue optimism in regulatory reforms in higher education

January 4, 2021

The modern Indian higher education in its history of 163 years has undergone numerous reforms. The pre-Independence period had a negligible presence of regulatory mechanism. There were only two councils that were in operation during the pre-Independence period. One was the Indian Council of Agriculture Research (ICAR), set up in...

Regulatory reforms needed in higher education

December 28, 2020

Higher education in India has traversed a long distance in its journey during the post-Independence period. Notwithstanding its notable progress, the nation is yet to go a long way to realise its fullest potential. One of the key areas of reforms in higher education which, among others, has been a...

How our universities can fare better among global rankings

December 21, 2020

T he public discourse on higher education often expresses concern about Indian universities not appearing amongst the top ranking universities of the world. It has attracted greater attention in the recent past as people are gradually becoming more and more conscious about the quality of higher education that stands the...

Remote education will be a key mode of teaching and learning

December 14, 2020

Modern technology has brought about unbelievable change in the world in the last couple of decades. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has not only revolutionised information dissemination, it has also made phenomenal contributions in social networking. Though no one is certain how the future technology will shape up the world...

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