Indian Higher Education: Contemporary Challenges of Quality

Higher Education (HE) has an important role in the task of rebuilding a nation as it paves the way for overall development. The twentieth century has witnessed several revolutions like Green Revolution, White Revolution, IT Revolution, so on and so forth, taking human civilisation to new heights. At the start of twenty-first century, a lot of importance was given to higher education. Every country realises the value of higher education and the benefits that accrue from it. The inabilities of the state to support this growing demand result in new financing arrangements for higher education. The recent reforms in this area could be broadly divided into two categories: the privatisation of public institutions and the establishment of private institutions of higher education. Privatisation implies the application of market principles in the operation of public institutions, while ownership rests within the public domain. Both of these measures have paved the way for market operations in higher education.