The quality of higher education in our country is hardly a match with the quantity - myriad number of engineering and medical colleges running on their own whims. In most of the cases the standards are lacking, fees are exorbitant and so on, except a few dozen good colleges.
This state of affair of higher education has been actively under debate in media as well as been close to the heart of young generation, intellectuals and writers alike, for instance in 'Revolution 2020' by Chetan Bhagat. One important aspect for this sad state of affairs is not so strict accreditation rules for colleges. Currently accreditation is voluntary.
Ministry of HRD has decided to make the accreditation of all higher educational institutes mandatory from 2013. A new 'Indian Board of Accreditation' is to be setup under AICTE, in addition to already existing 'National Board of accreditation'.
This should be a good first step. However, it's just one of the multitudinous steps that need to be taken to reform not just the higher education system but the whole education system from top to bottom.
The system needs to be reformed from bottom to top and top to bottom so as to link it up with preparing a generation to lead the nation building.
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