Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward

Madhya Pradesh is fast emerging as a repository of skilled human resource. Investment on building up of human capital is showing upward trend. The State Government has focused attention on improving the quality of higher education along with its ex...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: World Bank
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/15932070/conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forwardbrbhopal-indiabr-conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forward-bhopal-india
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17992
id okr-10986-17992
recordtype oai_dc
spelling okr-10986-179922021-04-23T14:03:35Z Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward World Bank ACCESS ENROLLMENT EXPANSION HIGHER EDUCATION HUMAN CAPITAL INCLUSION PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS Madhya Pradesh is fast emerging as a repository of skilled human resource. Investment on building up of human capital is showing upward trend. The State Government has focused attention on improving the quality of higher education along with its expansion by promoting public-private partnership. Legislation for encouraging establishment of private universities is expressive of state's resolve to become a hub of higher education. The 11th five year plan has set its goals as 'expansion of enrolment in higher education with inclusiveness, quality and relevant education, with necessary academic reforms in the university and college system. The goal is to set India as a nation in which all those who aspire to good quality higher education can access it, irrespective of their paying capacity'. Expansion, inclusion and quality are thus the three cornerstones of our national goals in education. The Government has set a target of 21percent Gross Enrolment Ration (GER) by the end of the twelfth plan (2017) with an interim target of 15 percent by the end of the eleventh plan 2012. This seems a highly ambitious aim considering the present GER of 12.4 percent. The Government of Madhya Pradesh convened a conference 'Higher education in Madhya Pradesh the way forward' on 3rd of October 2011 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The conference brought together key policy makers, academic faculty and stakeholders in the field of education to discuss the needs of higher education in Madhya Pradesh, and options for improvement and expansion. The Government of Madhya Pradesh is considering a reform of their higher education system, focusing first on the governance and legislative framework. In Madhya Pradesh, there are currently 15 universities, of which 9 are public. Further, there are over 300 colleges, a few of which have been awarded autonomous status and centers of excellence by the University Grants Commission (UGC), and the remaining are affiliated colleges. Governance plays an important role in the performance of any organization involved in public service. In a federal country with a written Constitution governed by rule of law, every activity in the public sphere is to be organized according to the framework prescribed by the law and the Constitution. It is therefore important to appreciate the legal framework under which higher education is organized in India and to begin the reform proposals with the law on the subject. 2014-04-22T19:39:09Z 2014-04-22T19:39:09Z 2012-01 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/15932070/conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forwardbrbhopal-indiabr-conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forward-bhopal-india http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17992 English en_US South Asia Human Development Sector Discussion Paper Series;No. 48 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Working Paper Publications & Research South Asia India
repository_type Digital Repository
institution_category Foreign Institution
institution Digital Repositories
building World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
collection World Bank
language English
en_US
topic ACCESS
ENROLLMENT EXPANSION
HIGHER EDUCATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
INCLUSION
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
spellingShingle ACCESS
ENROLLMENT EXPANSION
HIGHER EDUCATION
HUMAN CAPITAL
INCLUSION
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
World Bank
Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward
geographic_facet South Asia
India
relation South Asia Human Development Sector Discussion Paper Series;No. 48
description Madhya Pradesh is fast emerging as a repository of skilled human resource. Investment on building up of human capital is showing upward trend. The State Government has focused attention on improving the quality of higher education along with its expansion by promoting public-private partnership. Legislation for encouraging establishment of private universities is expressive of state's resolve to become a hub of higher education. The 11th five year plan has set its goals as 'expansion of enrolment in higher education with inclusiveness, quality and relevant education, with necessary academic reforms in the university and college system. The goal is to set India as a nation in which all those who aspire to good quality higher education can access it, irrespective of their paying capacity'. Expansion, inclusion and quality are thus the three cornerstones of our national goals in education. The Government has set a target of 21percent Gross Enrolment Ration (GER) by the end of the twelfth plan (2017) with an interim target of 15 percent by the end of the eleventh plan 2012. This seems a highly ambitious aim considering the present GER of 12.4 percent. The Government of Madhya Pradesh convened a conference 'Higher education in Madhya Pradesh the way forward' on 3rd of October 2011 in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. The conference brought together key policy makers, academic faculty and stakeholders in the field of education to discuss the needs of higher education in Madhya Pradesh, and options for improvement and expansion. The Government of Madhya Pradesh is considering a reform of their higher education system, focusing first on the governance and legislative framework. In Madhya Pradesh, there are currently 15 universities, of which 9 are public. Further, there are over 300 colleges, a few of which have been awarded autonomous status and centers of excellence by the University Grants Commission (UGC), and the remaining are affiliated colleges. Governance plays an important role in the performance of any organization involved in public service. In a federal country with a written Constitution governed by rule of law, every activity in the public sphere is to be organized according to the framework prescribed by the law and the Constitution. It is therefore important to appreciate the legal framework under which higher education is organized in India and to begin the reform proposals with the law on the subject.
format Publications & Research :: Working Paper
author World Bank
author_facet World Bank
author_sort World Bank
title Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward
title_short Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward
title_full Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward
title_fullStr Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward
title_full_unstemmed Higher Education in Madhya Pradesh : The Way Forward
title_sort higher education in madhya pradesh : the way forward
publisher Washington, DC
publishDate 2014
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2012/01/15932070/conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forwardbrbhopal-indiabr-conference-proceedings-higher-education-madhya-pradesh-way-forward-bhopal-india
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/17992
_version_ 1764435912003944448