The Great Education Muddle: State Failure and Judicial Jigsaw

A comprehensive White Paper on India’s higher education policy for a pragmatic programmatic for at least the next 20 years is urgently needed. Such a Paper should take stock of the present and required availability of access taking into consideration the size of the age-cohort population in the relevant age-groups, and cover all issues relating to higher education such as ensuring social justice through education for all, relevance of public-private partnership, admission policy, quotas, fee-structure, quality-control and other matters.