New Education policy

THEME: Effective Governance and Leadership for

Higher Education Institutions

NEP: New and Forward-looking Vision for India’s

Higher Education System

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 CURRENT SCENARIO OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION

Total Institutions Students Enrollment

10423 1856504

Total Intake Students Passed

3392521 1549145

Placement
795020

DATABASE 2018-19: SOURCE AICTE

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 CURRENT SCENARIO OF TECHNICAL EDUCATION
(ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM ONLY)

Total Institutions Students Enrollment

6275 1415831

Total Intake Students Passed

2711878 1248388

Placement
616913

DATABASE 2018-19: SOURCE AICTE

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DATABASE SOURCE AICTE
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 FRAGMENTATION OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM
 800 universities and 40,000 colleges
 Reflecting the overall severe fragmentation and small size of HEIs currently
in the country.
 Over 40% of all colleges in the country run only a single programme
 Over 20% of colleges have enrolment below 100
 Only 4% of colleges have enrolment over 3000 (AISHE 2016-17).
 Thousands of the smaller colleges hardly have any teaching faculty at all,
and there is little or no education taking place - thus affecting severely the
integrity of the higher education system in the country.
 Fragmentation of the system leads to severe suboptimality on various fronts:
 Resource utilization
 Range and number of programmes and disciplines,
 the range and number of faculty
 Ability to carry out high-quality multidisciplinary research.
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 NEP 2020: STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN HES
 Ending of the fragmentation of higher education
 HIGHER EDUCATION LARGE MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNIVERSITIES/ AUTONOMOUS
COLLEGES (ENROLLMENT > 3,000 students) and not small institutions
 Consolidation/Restructuring existing institutions
 Building new ones/Establishing new world class model institutions
 Establishing at least one large high quality multidisciplinary HEI in every
district.
 Three types of such HEIs along the research-teaching and university-college
spectrum will be developed.
 Single-stream HEIs will be phased out.
 All single-stream HEIs will move towards becoming multidisciplinary
 Every
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 Good Governance: Policy of Consolidation
 Governing mechanism for that purpose: Policy for consolidation
 11000 Technical Institutions (AICTE)
 6163 engineering colleges/ 3063 MBA colleges/1023 MCA
 Every year 100-150 Engg. Colleges/No takers
 QUALITY institutes are growing/intake doubled and everybody want to a good college at a
good university private or public.

 Consolidating all the institutions so that two or three institutions can come
together under a common management/trusts
 Fewer number which will have an ability to go up to 3000 students for a
period of maybe five to eight years creating a benchmark
 Lesser BOARD, lesser number of people needed and that will help improve
quality.
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 Suboptimal Governance and Leadership for HEIs
 Governance and leadership of HEIs is deeply influenced and controlled by
external bodies and individuals which have vested political and/or
commercial interests in the HEIs.
 Public institutions are often operated as extensions of government
departments.
 Significant external interference exists in the selection and functioning of
leaders of public institutions.
 Undeserving and inappropriate people as leaders of HEIs, appointed through
corrupt or arbitrary practices that are not merit based.
 The educational aspects, including curricula, of HEIs are controlled by
multiple external bodies.
 HEIs are not empowered to manage their own teams, and often have little or
no influence on compensation and progression of faculty, and appointments.
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Internal governance structures have thereby become dysfunctional. 8
 Effective Governance and Leadership for HEIs
 Weakest point in Indian HEIs is Governance
 Focus on Good Governance in TEQIP II.
 Absence of Institutional Governance Document
 It is utmost important to bring clarity about the governance within the
board members, within the stakeholders.
 Need exists to bring out a document which clearly spells what as a
leader is meant the institutional governance.
 Formulating this governance document and engaging board members
into it is very essential.
 Credibility of the board members, what kind of PEOPLE are there in BOG
is also important.

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 Effective Governance and Leadership for HEIs
 Categorization of institutions across India
 Government institutions
 Aided institutions.
 Private institutions

 Existing Structure of BOG

 Chairman and members of BOG are defined by the respective states.
 Education Minister/ Principal secretary is the Chairman of Board.
 Family centric/ trust confined to their own society.
 Little presence of the independent board members who bring
credibility/experiences to the table.
 Board Members are hand picked

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 Effective Governance and Leadership for HEIs
 From the day NEP is rolled out, ensuring a very credible BOG in place is must.
 Members from a diverse background
 Independent board members
 Strong people who can have a view and are not afraid in articulating their view
 People who have spent a lifetime in good institutions
 Members who can ask critical question
 Majority of people and not people who are related/connected to the founding team
 Majority of Independent people and less government nominees
 Mechanism to select independent board member: Industry/Corporate world/HEIs
 Compensation to attract the best-minded people
 Representation from Alumni
 Gender balance (women on Board)
 Physically Challenged
 Student Member

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 Effective Governance and Leadership for HEIs
 PROCESS/PRACTICES
 Participation/deliberation of members in formulation of strategic
plan
 Roles and responsibilities as the board members.
 Focus on measurement of performance of the institution: KPIs
 Evaluation of the head of the institution
 Process to evaluate the performance of the board member himself.
 Benchmarking the institution with the PRACTICES OF GOOD
GOVERNANCE

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 Effective Governance and Leadership for HEIs
 CREATION OF CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE/EXISTENCE OF STRONG SELF
GOVERNANCE [NEP 19.1]
1. Need to come out with a strategic institution development plan and the
roadmap for the next 10 years including a chapter on governance based
on the principle enshrined in the NEP
 BOG should be independent
 Should be self-governing institution
 Free of external interference
 Must work on making proper disclosure
 Must have a high quality leadership
 Academic leadership should be separate from governance

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 CREATION OF CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE/EXISTENCE OF STRONG SELF
GOVERNANCE
2. Create a code of good governance practices which will guide the
institution.
3. Follow the bottoms up approach
 All the stake holders students, faculty the support staff, alumni the industry all of
them have to be taken on board by having lots of deliberations/discussions and
forming the vision, mission, goal setting
 Conduct SWOT analysis of institution (Faculty)
 Create a culture so that all are having the same common idea/agreed to this
vision and mission
 Give the responsibility to faculty and not the task, depending upon the interest so
each one will pick up that which he is interested in. Maintain register of interest
 Everyone will perform and overall institute will perform well
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 Effective Leadership for HEIs
 NEP 19.2:
 Outstanding merit-based appointments of institutional leaders.
 NEP 19.2:
 The BoG of an institution will be empowered to govern the institution free of
any external interference, make all appointments including that of head of
the institution, and take all decisions regarding governance
 NEP 19.4.
 All leadership positions and Heads of institutions will be offered to persons
with high academic qualifications and demonstrated administrative and
leadership capabilities along with abilities to manage complex situations.
 The selection shall be carried out by the BoG through a rigorous, impartial,
merit-based, and competency-based process led by an Eminent Expert
Committee (EEC) constituted by the BoG.
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 Effective Leadership for HEIs

 Appointments of Vice Chancellor are made from a panel of

names recommended by the Search-cum Selection Committee

 Politics and interference must be kept at its arms length

 For leadership position, the person who is from that very

institution should not lead the institution. The one from
outside the system to be preferred.

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