The new edition of the National Institutional Ranking Framework highlights the crucial areas to be focused for development of higher education. Analyse (200 Words)
Refer - The Hindu
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IAS Parliament 3 years
KEY POINTS
· National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) for higher education may offer many advantages. Its signalling effect may help students, faculty, and prospective employer, respectively, to help them choose institutions for admission.
· The most useful purpose that the ranking can serve is to identify areas of improvement and then proactively to work to overcome those deficiencies and thus ensure quality and promote excellence.
· Analysed in this context, even the top 100 universities in NIRF, present a very disquieting trend which warrants urgent attention.
· The NIRF 2020 ranking reveals that the best university in the country scored 92.16% on research performance.
· The score drastically declined to 60.52% for the 10th best university.
· NIRF does not disclose data on the total number of teachers but amongst a few statistics that it reports includes the total expenditure on salaries of teaching and non-teaching staff.
· The data disclose in no uncertain terms that on an average, the higher the expenditure on salaries of the staff, the higher is the ranking of the university.
· The larger the number of research scholars, the higher the ranks of the universities .
· To conclude, the fund and the faculty, the two most neglected areas, are critical not only for research performance but also for the overall ranking.
Manish 3 years
IAS Parliament 3 years
Good attempt. Keep Writing.
