Quality Assurance in Indian Higher Education

Abstract

Higher education is an effective instrument to build knowledge for an information-based society. The core mission of higher education is to educate, train, undertake research and provide service to the community. Keeping this in view, the objectives of the higher education were set during the 12^th plan. The general objective of the 12^th Plan was to achieve a profound transformation of higher education so that it effectively promotes sustainable human development and at the same time improves relevance with closer links with the world of work and achieve quality in its teaching, research and community extension functions including lifelong Higher Education is an important tool for the evolution of a society into a dynamic and vibrant system that could respond to the challenges of the times. The quality of education, then, assumes foremost significance, especially for its role in the formation of future generation. This demands that the system of education should be dynamic enough to effectively perform its liberalize role in the society. There had been several efforts over the years in India during both the pre-independent and in the post-independent era, to revitalize the spirit and structure of education to maintain its quality and dynamism.