What is Wrong with UGC’s Graded Autonomy Ordeal
In the first wave of “revamping” the education system, Indian institutions were given autonomy on the basis of performance parameters determined by the National Assessment and Accreditation Council or NAAC score.
In simple terms, ‘autonomy’ would mean more freedom for institutes to start their own courses, create new syllabi, launch new research programmes, hire foreign faculty, enroll foreign students and give them incentive-based emoluments.
What the government fails to tell you is that colleges will have to generate funds for the same themselves through ‘self – financing’ courses. And the funding by government would reduce drastically.
So does this autonomy ensure better and affordable quality higher education?