Dear Students,
LAST WEEK WE ASKED: Parliamentary panel has opposed the NCHER bill. Do you think the bill will help better the Indian education sector?
BEST RESPONSE
The NCHER Bill proposes a supreme regulatory body to cover various disciplines of education. However, with its multiple roles, it may prove unmanageable for an ever expanding education sector. It may also possibly infringe on the rights of various educational institutions and may target them unfairly. The focus should be on strengthening the existing regulatory bodies.
- Akshay Chadha, NSIT, Delhi
OTHER RESPONSES:
The NCHER bill will help the Indian education sector as it subsumes existing higher education regulators such as UGC, AICTE, CDE to act as an independent body for supervising universities and institutes. The bill will not interfere in any of the policy decisions and will be a benefit for higher education in the country.
- Kishore Iyengar, St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies, Ahmedabad
The bill won't be much of a help since students need disciplined, technical and professional education which is available by many enormous institutes. NCHER is only a creation of new myth for education system. If government is unable to sustain their university programs and unable to deliver educational schemes to needy students, it should refrain from creating any new panel that leads to further red-tapism. Education system will not improve by such bills.
- Vivek Shah, St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies, Ahmedabad
The NCHER is a welcome step keeping in view the state of higher education in India. The bill is expected to combat corruption in appointment and ensure quality. But the NCHER bill talks of management remedy not of academic. There is a inherent contradiction in the bill between what has been stated in the preamble and what has been incorporated in it. The preamble talks of decentralisation while body talks of centralisation. Moreover, the bill is mum on democratisation. Thus effective functioning of bill and removal of inherent contradiction is required to better the education sector.
- Nilaya Mitash Shanker, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee
The existing Indian education sector is fragmented and there are many bodies like UGC and AICTE which takes cares of other disciplines in the economy. With the enforcement of NCHER bill, all these disciplines will be covered under one single body and hence these will work as a one stop solution for Indian education sector. The NCHER bill will not only promote autonomy of higher education and innovation but also provide for comprehensive and integrated growth of higher education and research considering global standards into perspective Thus NCHER bill will be a great boon to Indian education sector.
- Harsh Mehta, St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies, Ahmedabad
The bill looks to centralise the whole education process and match the education standard with foreign universities. The Indian students will also get to compete with foreign students with new education methods. The best part of the bill is that it will cover all areas and disciplines, including general, technical and professional education, and according to sources, also some research components in the field of medicine. The NCHER bill will help better for Indian education sector.
- Gunjan Talsania, St. Kabir Institute of Professional Studies, Ahmedabad
The need of the hour in education sector is to satiate the requirements for growing population by opening quality institutes on large scale in numerous fields. So rather than deciding on the bill for establishment of a single body to supervise all the governing bodies it would be much more fruitful to provide high quality education to growing number of students.
- Shivam Chhabra, Integral University, Lucknow
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