NKC-9: Review of Mehta (2005a): Regulating Higher Education, etc., The Indian Express, New Delhi, July 14-16.

NKC-9: India's National Knowledge Commission-9: Review of Mehta
(2005a, 2005b and 2005c): Regulating Higher Education, Critiquing the
Regulatory Regime and How to build Quality Institutions, The Indian
Express, New Delhi, July 14-16.

This is a series of three articles by Dr Pratap Bhanu Mehta,
President, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi on the state of
higher education in India. In the first part,* the author points out
to the mismatch of supply and demand with the thrust of regulatory
regime to diminish rather than increase supply, in the second part,**
to the regulatory regime, which concentrates on motives and
intentions rather than the likely outcomes and in the third part***
the author suggests a number of measures for improving quality of
higher education in India. This series assumes importance as the
author – Dr Mehta- is Member-Convener of recently constituted India's
National Knowledge Commission (NKC) and building excellence is one of
its terms of reference and his views may have a bearing upon the
deliberations of the commission.

Dr D.C.Misra
July 23, 2005
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*Mehta, Pratap Bhanu (2005a): Regulating Higher Education, The Indian
Express, New Delhi, July 14, Thursday, p-9, Part-I),
http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_frame.php

**Mehta, Pratap Bhanu (2005b): Critiquing the Regulatory Regime, The
Indian Express, New Delhi, July 15, Friday, p-9, Part-II),
http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_frame.php

***Mehta, Pratap Bhanu (2005c): How to build Quality Institutions,
The Indian Express, July 16, Saturday, p-9, Part-III)
http://www.indianexpress.com/archive_frame.php