Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward
Madhya Pradesh is fast emerging as a repository of skilled human resource. Investment on building up of human capital is showing upward trend. The State Government has focused attention on improving the quality of higher education along with its ex...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/15932070/conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forwardbrbhopal-indiabr-conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forward-bhopal-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17992 |
| Summary: | Madhya Pradesh is fast emerging as a
repository of skilled human resource. Investment on building
up of human capital is showing upward trend. The State
Government has focused attention on improving the quality of
higher education along with its expansion by promoting
public-private partnership. Legislation for encouraging
establishment of private universities is expressive of
state's resolve to become a hub of higher education.
The 11th five year plan has set its goals as 'expansion
of enrolment in higher education with inclusiveness, quality
and relevant education, with necessary academic reforms in
the university and college system. The goal is to set India
as a nation in which all those who aspire to good quality
higher education can access it, irrespective of their paying
capacity'. Expansion, inclusion and quality are thus
the three cornerstones of our national goals in education.
The Government has set a target of 21percent Gross Enrolment
Ration (GER) by the end of the twelfth plan (2017) with an
interim target of 15 percent by the end of the eleventh plan
2012. This seems a highly ambitious aim considering the
present GER of 12.4 percent. The Government of Madhya
Pradesh convened a conference 'Higher education in
Madhya Pradesh the way forward' on 3rd of October 2011
in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The conference brought together
key policy makers, academic faculty and stakeholders in the
field of education to discuss the needs of higher education
in Madhya Pradesh, and options for improvement and
expansion. The Government of Madhya Pradesh is considering a
reform of their higher education system, focusing first on
the governance and legislative framework. In Madhya Pradesh,
there are currently 15 universities, of which 9 are public.
Further, there are over 300 colleges, a few of which have
been awarded autonomous status and centers of excellence by
the University Grants Commission (UGC), and the remaining
are affiliated colleges. Governance plays an important role
in the performance of any organization involved in public
service. In a federal country with a written Constitution
governed by rule of law, every activity in the public sphere
is to be organized according to the framework prescribed by
the law and the Constitution. It is therefore important to
appreciate the legal framework under which higher education
is organized in India and to begin the reform proposals with
the law on the subject. |
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