Interview with Dr Bala Balachandran, Founder, Great Lakes Chennai July 7, 2009
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Submitted to the Government of India on June 23, the report by the Yash Pal Committee to advice on Renovation and Rejuvenation of Higher Education has evoked a positive response amongst educationists in India. The report calls for an end to license-raj in higher education sector with setting up of a single regulatory body and several other far-reaching reforms. To quote from the report (a copy of which is with MBAUniverse.com), “We have suggested that the present regulating bodies should all be subsumed within a National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER).” It also says, “I would like to mention our deep concern in respect of two matters. Mushrooming engineering and management colleges, with some notable exceptions, have largely become, mere business entities dispensing very poor quality education. Deemed Universities have also mushroomed.”
The Mr Kapil Sibal, the HRD minister, in various media interviews, has expressed his commitment to implementing the recommendation of this report
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