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Quality control

Sir, — What our universities need most today, is second-generation reforms after pursuing the policy of "establishment and consolidation" for over fifty years. The reforms should include updating of syllabi, full autonomy, political non-interference and, above all, accountability of both the teachers and the taught. State funding of higher education should become more liberal and a sound mechanism of quality control should be put in place. University education cannot be divested from the socio-economic uplift of the masses. Therefore, both the Central and the State Governments should come forward with well meaning employment/placement programmes. Privatisation is a fatal short cut to the problems afflicting higher education in India. At best, it is an escape from a strategic area of national life.

Syed Sami Ullah,
Warangal, A.P.

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