QUALITY EDUCATION- A Study of the Indian Higher Education Quality Scenario and its various Perspectives

Unlike many service driven sectors in India, Education especially higher education has emerged out to be a very important one. Higher education not only plays a vital role in building knowledge and fostering innovation and talent but also contributed to the development of socio economic growth of our nation. From last two decades, this sector has witnessed many changes in terms of policies, attitude of students and faculties, better infrastructure and other facilities which are at par with any global quality education. Still there are many loopholes which still remain in our education system. Quality education is not only related to providing a good infrastructure or providing practical knowledge to the students but it is a holistic development where the outcome of learning is long lasting and in relation with the real life situation. Even though India has come up at a recognized level all around the level when it comes to education standards it still needs improvement to attain a
global education excellence. There are many factors which contributes to quality education which includes quality of teaching, more research based activities, being proactive to compete with international standards, involvement of student and faculty, providing an international platform to both faculties and students which will strengthen their confidence, the infrastructure, the reliability part, the academic syllabus and the accreditation part etc. The main aim of this paper is to highlight the loopholes and challenges faced by higher Education in India in the present scenario and the solutions which can be implemented by which the level of quality education can be improved in order to bring it at par with the global education network. This paper also throws light on the various regulatory bodies involved in providing higher education standards along with state and central government reforms who are working in order to improve the standards of higher education status in India.