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THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT MAGAZINE

Volume X XIII No.5

BOARD OF ADVISORS
N.R. Narayana Murthy, H.V. Gowthama, Shukla T he public often forgets the vast scale and diversity of subconti-
Bose, Dr. Glenn Christo, Dr. R. Natarajan nental India. For instance, within the education sector there are
(Bangalore); Adi Godrej, Dr. Augustine Pinto, 1.4 million primary-secondary schools; 43,796 junior and un-
Guilherme Vaz, Ketan Gala, Kirit Mehta, Balkishan
Sharma (Mumbai); Dr. Ramdas Pai (Manipal); dergrad colleges and 1,113 universities countrywide established
Prof. Geeta Kingdon (Lucknow); Rajiv Desai, Dr. to serve the educational needs of over 500 million children and
Parth Shah, Jeroninio Almeida, Premchand Palety
(Delhi); Dr. Kannan Gireesh (Chennai); Robindra youth. It’s quite obviously impossible to evaluate and rank them
Subba (Kurseong); Sanjeev Bolia (Kolkata); Dr. all. Therefore all ranking agencies and media publications restrict themselves
Achyuta Samanta (Bhubaneswar); Shyama Thakore to rating and ranking the Top 1,000, Top 200 or other appealing number.
(London)
Moreover contrary to popular opinion, it’s also impossible to conduct
EDITOR physical audits of even the small numbers. It would be very expensive and
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time consuming. The audit methodology of grading universities is practiced
MANAGING EDITOR by NAAC (National Assessment and Accreditation Council, estb. 1994)
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which dispatches task forces of academics to conduct on-site institutional
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR audits — at the assessee institution’s expense. That’s why in the 29 years
Sundar Anand since NAAC was established, it has assessed a mere 9,062 colleges and 418
Paromita Sengupta, Reshma Ravishanker, Gopi universities in India.
Chand N, (Bangalore), Autar Nehru (Delhi)
9868256512, Baishali Mukherjee (Kolkata) Therefore the standard method for assessing education institutions is by
9836491981, Shivani Chaturvedi (Chennai) constituting a sample respondents database of knowledgeable individuals
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