QUALITY ASSESSMENT AND ENHANCEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION

The Higher Education is the growing sector in India with a potential to make the country a developed nation in future. The quality at various levels of higher education will play an important role to make good citizens of the country. Strict policies and use of advanced software's will definitely help in maintaining the good quality education at higher education sector. To achieve the basic aim of higher education, there exists a strong need to bring out the best from the individuals personality. This great purpose requires selection of appropriate courses which should always be in consonance with the interest and hidden potentialities of the students. It is quite obvious that students are the prime stakeholders in any system of higher education. Quality is the end product of responsiveness to their educational and professional needs and also to the need of personal development which has been the primary concern of the traditional systems of education in the country. Student aspirations and goals change in a fast changing world. That system of higher education, which is ready to honour them and shape its curricular and administrative performance accordingly is alone relevant. It can make student stakeholders partners in planning and governance rather than keeping them as docile recipient of that which is imposed on them without sensitivity to their changing needs and aspirations.