States not doing enough for higher education: UGC chairman

State governments have not shown enough commitment for strengthening higher education, UGC chairman Ved Prakash said on Tuesday, stressing that the challenge before the Centre was to take them on board.
Batting for public-private partnership in higher education, he said that the UGC is going to support private initiatives in this sector in a big way and added that a suitable model of collaboration needs to be evolved in which public resources can be synergised with the private philanthropy.
"This is a huge challenge. We regulators want to say that we are not adversaries, we are companions as the goals remain the same. While they should make the most out of the regulations that we are coming out with, they should not consider them as infringement on their autonomy," Prakash said at an event today. More...