Ranking of Indian Universities
The details of the report are at www.thetimeshighereducation.co.uk
. There are several entities undertaking ranking of world universities as per
their own criteria. Some of the better known global systems of rankings are the
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) system, the Times Higher Education (THE), World
University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)
published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
These different international ranking systems use different values, indices and
parameters to rank higher educational institutions. These criteria are neither
universally accepted nor recognized and are therefore sometimes subjected to
criticism in academic circles. Some of these parameters may not be relevant for
Indian higher educational institutions and therefore, these rankings cannot
constitute the basis for benchmarking of Indian institutions.
Improvement of quality of higher education is a continuous process. The
Government is continuously striving to improve the quality of higher education
in the country by legislative initiatives as well as schemes and programmes.
The National Accreditation Regulatory Authority for Higher Educational
Institutions Bill, 2010, which aims to make accreditation mandatory for all
higher educational institutions in order to ensure independent quality
assurance mechanism, has been introduced in Parliament on 3rd May, 2010.
To facilitate dedicated Universities as hubs for research ecosystems to develop
as clusters of education, research and innovation and to promote innovation in
learning and design, development and delivery of solutions, the Universities
for Research and Innovation Bill, 2012 has been introduced in the Lok Sabha on
21st May, 2012.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) has reported that it implements various
schemes for providing support to higher education institutions for improving
quality of higher education, such as Universities with Potential for Excellence
(UPE), Colleges with Potential for Excellence (CPE), Special Assistance
Programme (SAP), Assistance for Strengthening of Infrastructure for Science and
Technology (ASIST), “Assistance for Strengthening of Infrastructure for
Humanities and Social Sciences” (ASIHSS), Basic Scientific Research (BSR) etc.
The Department of Science and Technology, through its programme “Promotion of
University Research and Scientific Excellence” (PURSE), Innovation in Science
Pursuit for Inspired Research (INSPIRE), Fund for Improvement of S&T
Infrastructure in Higher Educational Institutions (FIST) etc. provides support
to universities essentially for research man-power cost, augmentation of
equipment and computational facilities, research consumables and maintenance of
the facilities etc.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Human Resource
Development, Dr. Shashi Tharoor in Rajya Sabha today.
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