Authors: Swapnal Bhatt
Abstract: The growing number of colleges and universities in India has opened chances for people to move up socially to get ready for jobs and to grow knowledge. Simply adding more institutions does not make education better. the sector faced problems: schools had uneven resources, teaching and learning varied in quality teachers felt pressure many colleges had little research capacity and the way exams were graded sometimes cared more about paperwork than the real learning experience of students. This paper looks closely at what quality means in higher education and looks at selected problems in the policies and institutions that existed until now. It uses data from the All India Survey on Higher Education (AISHE) 2018–19, from University Grants Commission rules and from higher-education policy papers. The paper says that quality is not about buildings, rankings or accreditation. Quality is about how a school can help students learn meaningfully think independently act ethically and use knowledge in practice. The paper ends by saying that improvement needs planning that fits the context continuous training for teachers, stronger research habits, fairer access to learning tools and a deeper way to check quality.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23914672
