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Digital South Asia Library
The Digital South Asia Library provides digital materials for reference and research on South Asia to scholars, public officials, business leaders, and other users. This project builds upon a two-year pilot project funded by the Association of Research Libraries' Global Resources Program with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Participants in the Digital South Asia Library include leading U.S. universities, the Center for Research Libraries, the South Asia Microform Project, the Committee on South Asian Libraries and Documentation, the Association for Asian Studies, the Library of Congress, the Asia Society, the British Library, the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, MOZHI in India, the Sundarayya Vignana Kendram in India, Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya in Nepal, and other institutions in South Asia.
- Website: http://dsal.crl.edu/
India
Higher Education in India
Homepage of the Department of Education, Government of India,
with links to all commmissions with supervisory authority
for higher education.
- Website: http://www.education.nic.in/higedu.asp
Government of India, Publications on Higher Education
Recent publications include the Annual Report for 2004-2005 in English.
- Website: http://www.education.nic.in/pub.asp
Overview of Education in India
Quick reference for the structure and grading system in Indian
education from the World Higher Education Database..
- Website: http://www.unesco.org/iau/onlinedatabases/systems_data/in.rtf
Academics-India
Overview of higher education in India with links to introduce
different commissions and authorities responsible for oversight.
- Website: http://www.academics-india.com/
GATS and Higher Education in India
Rupa Chanda of IIM Bangalore has been studying the implications
of GATS for higher education in India. She made a comprehensive
presentation on GATS, Higher Education Services and India
(ppt) at a Higher Education Summit, organized by FICCI in
New Delhi on December 2, 2004.
- Website: http://prayatna.typepad.com/education/2005/06/gats_and_higher.html
Quality Assurance
National Assessment and Accreditation Council INAAC)
The NAAC is an autonomous body established by the University
Grants Commission (UGC) of India to assess and accredit institutions
of higher education in the country.
- Website: http://www.naac-india.com/index.asp
Quality Assurance in Indian Higher Education
Jagannath Patil (WENR, 19:1. February 2006) The National Assessment
and Accreditation Council (NAAC), India’s premier higher education
quality assurance agency, today stands at a crossroads after
11 years assessing quality standards in Indian higher education.
As an autonomous body established by the University Grants
Commission (UGC) in 1994, the Council has assessed and accredited
more than 2500 institutions and has gone from being viewed
somewhat skeptically and suspiciously to being acclaimed for
facilitating a culture of academic quality.
- Website: http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06feb/feature.htm
Private Higher Education
International Trends In Private Higher Education And The
Indian Scenario
Asha Gupta. (September 2005). Center for Studies in Higher
Education, UC Berkeley.
The following paper highlights the political, economic, socio-cultural, ethical, philosophical, legal, and practical aspects of the far-reaching theme
of international trends in private higher education, in general. It also focuses on the driving forces, causes and consequences of the emergence of
private higher education in India during the last three decades, in particular.
- Website: http://cshe.berkeley.edu/publications/publications.php?id=51
India: The Private Sector Emerges in Higher Education
Sonja Bohn (WENR, 15:1. Jan/Feb 2002). In just four years,
the number of universities rose from 178 in 1997 to 256 in
2001. Between 1994 and 1999, more than 500 new colleges were
established annually.
- Website: http://www.wes.org/ewenr/02jan/practical.htm
Pakistan
Centers for Educational Research and Development
The Centre for Higher Education Transformation (CHET) is the first civil society unit of its kind in Pakistan. CHET is a research-based resource on policy, institutional development, and governance and management matters. It is also engaged in networking of individuals and communities interested in reform of higher education.
- Website: http://www.chet.edu.pk/
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