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Policy Crisis in Higher Education: Reform or Deform?*
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak
Higher education in India is engulfed with several problems and major reforms are long overdue. But unfortunately, the system has been characterized with a big policy vacuum for a long period.1 Somewhat surprisingly, all of a sudden, now there is a rush for reforms, in what is described as an ‘epochal year’ for education reforms that witnesses a paradigm shift in education policies. It is a period of speedy reforms intended to be brought through a series of legislative measures. There are currently 8-9 bills being formulated by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) of the Government of India relating to reforms in higher education and they are at various ...
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