India must regain its lost glory in higher education

By C Raj Kumar. The newly-appointed Union minister for human resource development, Prakash Javadekar, has a number of issues to address for revamping the higher education sector. On February 29, Union finance minister Arun Jaitley announced in his budget speech that an “enabling regulatory architecture will be provided to 10 public and 10 private institutions to emerge as world-class teaching and research institutions”. More...