• Establish a ‘National Human Resource Development Fund’, as recommended by UGC, with at least one per cent of the GDP, to tackle the problems of quality and equity. Let us not forget that college enrollment in India, in the age group of 18-23 years, is only six per cent against the 47 per cent average in developed countries. China, whose college enrollment is already double that of India, aims to take it to 20 per cent by 2010.
Just goes to show that India has a long way to go, both in terms of quantity and quality, in higher education. Since our Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh himself has once served as the chairman of UGC, will he push some of these reforms?
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