Sibal to free higher ed from inspector raj

1,000 universities and 45,000 colleges will be required over the next decade: Sibal

PTI | May 25, 2011



Union HRD minister Kapil Sibal has said that the higher education system in India should be freed from "inspector raj" and the government is coming out with a law to deal with the practise.

He also said a voluntary disclosure system for the institutions was necessary to bring in transparency.

"The government is coming out with an Education Malpractices Act. We shall free higher education institutions of inspector raj and hold them accountable for voluntary disclosures made by them on the institutes's portals," he said, while delivering the 31st Vikram Sarabhai memorial lecture here on Tuesday.

He also said that to bring 30 million more students into the system, another 1,000 universities and 45,000 colleges will be required over the next decade.

"We will need another 1,000 universities and another 45,000 colleges to hike gross enrolment ratio from 14 to 30 per cent by 2020," Sibal said.

The union minister also said that out of 100 children in the age group of 18 to 24 years, only 15 manage to reach college. The number of those not reaching college is about 170-180 million, he said.

According to Sibal, out of a population of 1.2 billion, 74 per cent people are literate.

 

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