{"id":28567,"date":"2018-10-24T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28567"},"modified":"2018-10-24T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T07:41:16","slug":"reform-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reform-101\/","title":{"rendered":"Reform 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/reform-101\/article24295504.ece\">Reform 101<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><u>News:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The new Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill drafted by the Centre.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong><u>Important facts:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2.The proposed HECI is the successor to the University Grant Commission (UGC).<\/p>\n<p>3.There are 864 recognised universities and 40,026 colleges in India during 2016-17.<\/p>\n<p>4.However, Gross Enrolment Ratio was only about 26%.<\/p>\n<p>5.At the time of independence, there were only 20 universities and 500 colleges.<\/p>\n<p>6.Earlier, some expert committees and legislation had also advocated changes in education system reforms.<\/p>\n<p>7.At the time when access to skill building and educational opportunity was very important, the Bill will have far reaching implications such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It will provide expansion and quality of human resource development.<\/li>\n<li>The States are represented on the advisory council, giving it a federal character, However, the Centre will have the final say in all matters.<\/li>\n<li>There is also proposal to include multi disciplines streams like Architecture and nursing.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill will provide major reforms in higher education.<\/li>\n<li>Aimed at replacing UGC, once it is done , the technical education regulator AICTE and the teachers\u2019 education regulator NCTE will also be reformed on similar lines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>8.Despite having above positive aspects, the Bill is not free from contentious issues such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Centre\u2019s decision to shift grant-giving powers for higher education institutions to the Ministry of Human Resource Development or a separate body.<\/li>\n<li>The UGC has been doing this so far.<\/li>\n<li>Separation of funding decisions from political considerations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>9. The proposed HECI will face the following challenges:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Promoting autonomy<\/li>\n<li>Access, inclusion and opportunity to all<\/li>\n<li>Expansion of quality education<\/li>\n<li>Balance on allocation of funds<\/li>\n<li>Ensuring transparency<\/li>\n<li>Resolutions in the future role of multiple regulatory bodies.<\/li>\n<li>The Yash Pal committee \u00a0had recommended they should be brought under the umbrella of a single commission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10. In order to address the above mentioned challenges following reforms are needed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Creation of an agency that has the intellectual corpus to help universities and colleges adapt,<\/li>\n<li>The vision to plan for public funding in the emerging spheres of activity.<\/li>\n<li>Need to create a workforce that has the requisite skills.<\/li>\n<li>The draft Bill have positive attempt in this direction to weed out degree mills and dubious training institutions .<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"590\"><strong><u>Other key components of draft Bill:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Separates the academic and funding aspects of higher education.<\/li>\n<li>It takes away funding powers from the proposed regulator and gives it powers to ensure academic quality and even close down bogus institutions.<\/li>\n<li>However, there is no plan to merge all higher education regulators, as was proposed through a planned agency called HEERA.<\/li>\n<li>HECI will be in charge of ensuring academic quality in universities and colleges.<\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Human Resource Development will be responsible for funding universities and colleges.<\/li>\n<li>The Regulator will have powers to enforce compliance to the academic quality standards.<\/li>\n<li>The regulators are also authorized to have the power to order closure of sub-standard and bogus institutions.<\/li>\n<li>Non-compliance could result in fines or even a jail sentence.<\/li>\n<li>Presently UGC had no such powers. It can only release a list of bogus institutions and not recognise their degrees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>UGC VS \u00a0HECI <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. The UGC\u2019s regulatory power included quality assessment and giving grants. The HECI will just ensure academic quality while MHRD will give grants to institutions.<\/p>\n<p>2. The UGC conducted inspections to assess institutions. The HECI will practically do away with these and shift to a regime of \u201ctransparent disclosures\u201d instead.<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0The UGC published lists of\u00a0 bogus institutions once in a while. The HECI will be empowered to shutdown sub-standard and bogus institutions. Non \u2013compliance by institutions\u00a0 could also lead to jail terms.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reform 101 News: The new Higher Education Commission of India (HECI) Bill drafted by the Centre. Important facts: 2.The proposed HECI is the successor to the University Grant Commission (UGC). 3.There are 864 recognised universities and 40,026 colleges in India during 2016-17. 4.However, Gross Enrolment Ratio was only about 26%. 5.At the time of independence,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/reform-101\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reform 101<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704906355},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}