Regulate higher education for quality

From TOI 

KOTTAYAM: Effective regulatory frame work is essential to ensure quality and access to private higher education, said Prof Daniel Levy of the University of North Carolina, here at the MG University campus on Monday. He was rendering a lecture on 'Global private higher education, a comparative perspective on India and public policy'.

He said Latin American and Asian countries were putting much emphasis on private higher education where as the United States and the European Union were not giving much importance to that field.

"Among the countries, India and China are giving prime emphasis to the nurturing of private higher education, but an effective regulatory frame work is lacking, and if this is addressed, the quality of education will improve," Prof Levy said. The talk was organized by the director of the department of international relations at the university. Prof Raju Thadikkaran presided over the meeting and the discussion that followed in which many students participated.