Educationists in general are not objecting to The Institute
of Eminence Policy . But as the author of the article,” Helping hand for Indian universities”, C.
Rajkumar (The Hindu has pointed out , the
objections are related to the “ the procedure and process of selecting the IOCs . “ How does the Indian government aims
to create institutes of excellence with global ranking in the higher education
sector without addressing two very important requirements , viz., fund crunch
and academic autonomy? So many commissions have pointed out about the low
budgetary allocation to higher education in India and about too many regulatory
bodies stifling academic freedom . Yet , no lesson are
learnt . Even the low contribution of the corporate sector through CSR
expenditure towards higher education has not been given due attention. Finance
is the life blood for the execution of
any reform. Without paying urgent attention to the assessment of
exact financial needs of the
universities to upgrade their quality and raise resources from various sources
,the IOE policy will remain only a rhetoric . The pity is that, even
the New Education Policy
Proposals do not seem to address these critical requirements.
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