Standards of higher education institutes ‘abysmally low’: Pranab

President Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday expressed concern over the standards of higher education in the country.
According to him, standards of higher education institutes (in India) in comparison to international benchmarks are “abysmally low”.
This “saddens” him, especially when he sees there are 37,000 degree colleges, 11,000 diploma poly-technical institutes and 720 universities. More...