Will the setting up of private universities and Institutes further encourage commercialisation of education?
Private universities have unnecessarily got a bad name. The government of our country is not in a position to match the demand for quality education. There are many private institutes which are providing quality education. Problems arise when there are universities with good infrastructure and other facilities, but they forget to employ high quality teachers and then don’t deliver services worth the money paid by the students. Yes private institutes do create a gap between the haves and the have-nots by charging huge amount as fee. They need to become socially responsible, give quality education and not distinguish between students on the basis of caste, creed or nationality. How do you see this happening? This will happen through pubic pressure. The system should be transparent and Information must be given out to the common man within the stipulated period. We also need to set up quality criteria for measurement of performance of an Institute. This is the kind of control or supervisi
