The Indian higher education system is facing a crisis that is affecting its ability to build world class higher education institutions. Issues relating to quality, access and equity are some of the significant challenges of the higher education system in India. The historic context of the evolution of higher education system in India had focused on expansion and access with a view to providing opportunities for higher education to large number of aspiring students. This effort to expand the higher education system has led to a situation where quality and excellence have been given lesser importance. Since the Indian independence in 1947, there has been a significant expansion of higher education in both the public and private sectors with a stronger impetus since 1980s in private higher education. More...

The Emerging Leaders and Managers Program (eLAMP) is designed for new and aspiring tertiary education managers to develop their skills, knowledge and capacities to lead and manage effectively in the rapidly changing tertiary education environment. More...

This subject provides an overview of research evaluation and its place in science policy, and gives participants knowledge and insight in areas such as

• The function of evaluation in science and the ways in which scientists, scientific processes and results are subject to evaluation
• The institutional context of research evaluation in science policy and its function in governing
• The science system organisationally, nationally and internationally
• The type of evaluations that exist on different levels (project, program, institutional evaluations and rankings) as well as the tools used in evaluations (peer review and metrics)
• The social and organisational impacts of evaluation on the science system
• The ways in which evaluation can be studied scientifically
• Various approaches to evaluation research. More...

With Australia's current innovation agenda focused mostly on commercialisation of university research and linking universities to industry, an effective innovation agenda must take into account the different roles that diverse partners and institutions play in a true innovation eco-system. In this respect, Australia can learn from a number of European countries and regions where enterprises, government and tertiary institutions collaborate to foster innovation and entrepreneurial commercial activity to build new prosperity. More...