The Complex Pursuit of Quality in Higher Education
Furqan Qamar and Navneet Sharma | 10 January 2025 | The Deccan Herald
The 2020 National Education Policy (NEP 2020) underscores ‘quality education’ by referring to ‘quality’ 154 times across its 66 pages. Its exhortation for universal access to quality education by 2030 to make it in sync with the Sustainable Development (SDG4), however, seems an antithesis because equitable access to all learners, irrespective of their socioeconomic background, cannot be accomplished through private schools, colleges, and universities, howsoever public-spirited…