Higher Education Institutions – Some Guidel...

Higher Education Institutions – Some Guidelines for Obtaining and Sustaining Autonomy in the Context of Nep 2020

Author Name : B. L. Gupta, Ajay Kumar Choubey

ABSTRACT

The national education policy 2020 is the first policy of 21st century contemplating to reengineer the higher education institutions for quality education and excellence. The policy states that HEIs will transform themselves to provide quality education and thereby will get the accreditation. The accreditation of the institute will enable them to receive autonomy, which will again result in quality improvement in education and research. They will get higher level of accreditation, which will result in higher level of autonomy. The HEIs may traverse a path of quality, accreditation and autonomy and may become multidisciplinary university. Autonomy is in focus for making institutions accountable to the stakeholders. Harnessing the full potential of the institute and making them responsive and innovative in due course of time. In this paper, literature on autonomy related to educational institutions in India and overseas is reviewed on different dimensions perspectives and levels of autonomy. Based on literature review, experiences of the authors and interaction with experts working in the autonomous institutions, guidelines for obtaining and sustaining autonomy are stated.

Keywords: Autonomy, accountability, learners’ autonomy, types of autonomy.