Building the Links Between Funding and Quality in Higher Education: India's Challenge - Softcover

Daugherty, Lindsay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0833081233 ISBN 13: 9780833081230

Publisher: RAND Corporation, 2013

Synopsis

India has joined a worldwide trend in which nations are seeking to improve the quality of their higher education systems by giving greater autonomy and accountability to lower levels of government (e.g., states) and to the higher education institutions themselves. India's 12th Five-Year Plan, released in December 2012, suggests a range of reforms to higher education to change the role of the national government from "command and control" to "steer and evaluate." One approach that has proven effective in other countries is explicitly linking funding to well-defined quality measures and quality assurance processes. While India's 12th Five-Year Plan discusses the importance of quality improvement and funding, it does not discuss how quality and funding can be linked to support quality improvement under a "steer and evaluate" approach to governance. In this report, the authors review India's and other countries' efforts to reform their higher education systems and suggest seven policy actions that the Indian national government and other stakeholders can take to improve higher education by linking funding to quality.

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Reviews India's and other countries' higher education systems and suggests seven policy actions that the Indian national government and other stakeholders can take to improve higher education by linking funding to quality.

About this edition

• Publisher: RAND Corporation
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0833081233
• ISBN 13: 9780833081230
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 72