Indian universities are likely to find themselves under a new oversight body, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal announced last week. Physicist Yash Pal led the committee that recommended setting up a six-member National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) to reform higher education. The commission would replace nearly a dozen regulatory bodies and bring all streams of higher education, including engineering, medicine, agriculture and law, under its purview.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/indian-university-system-overhauled
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/k-s-jayaraman
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/nature
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/science-and-technology
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/science-and-technology-policy
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/education
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/government-india-goi
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
