Higher Education Commission: A great idea if executed carefully. Higher Education Commission (HEC) of India repeal of University Grants Commission (UGC) Act. This is a great move towards enhancing excellence in higher education in the nation. The main challenge is how to enhance the functional excellence of the HEC. The following provisions may be ensured: • For the effective integration of HEC, NAAC may be merged with HEC. • There should be a provision to create Indian Education Service (IES) under this Act. • To enhance the functional capability, HEC may be treated as an apex body integrated with a series of sub-commissions fixing specific responsibilities like educational excellence, research excellence, community services, quality assurance/ accreditation, recruitment and training of VCs and professors, international education, equivalencies, national data bank etc. • State HEC should form an integral part of Central HEC and should function with uniform regulations. • MHRD ma...
Focused on advancing knowledge and expertise in Geography, GIS, Remote Sensing, Geographical Data Science, and Analysis, I am deeply committed to teaching and conducting research in these fields. With a keen interest in leveraging data-driven approaches for informed decision-making, I specialize in crafting maps that facilitate effective analysis and interpretation of spatial information. Assistant Professor Of Geography, PG and Research Department of Geography, Government College Chittur