Quality Concerns in Higher Education

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present a general view and a brief literature review of the main aspects related to quality concern in global higher education. It provides an overview of accreditation as a mechanism to ensure quality in higher education. India needs multi-dimensional and broad-based quality education to maintain its leadership in the 21st century, therefore India should show the concern over the quality in Education as the education in India is not competitive in terms of the quantity and quality with other countries. Due to the reason of some Factors influencing quality in higher education that is politicizations, poor quality of intake, inadequate student service, inadequate material resources, non accountability of institutions, overcrowd classroom, influencing teaching, examination reform, teaching methods etc. and Challenges to quality higher education that is lack of access and equity, poor government budget, poor infrastructure inadequate number of faculty members, improper teaching methods etc.