May 16, 2008

India's Regulators Will Not Agree on Single Accreditor

By SHAILAJA NEELAKANTAN

India's 16 higher-education regulatory bodies are notorious, many here say, for mistaking regulation for governance. Every move to change a course, add more faculty members, or alter the examination format is stubbornly resisted while the system as a whole stagnates for want of leadership.

Now it appears that the latest effort to better coordinate higher-education oversight has fallen victim to the beast that is Indian bureaucracy.

The four largest regulators, which oversee

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