Photo: MintNew Delhi: The Union government has taken several initiatives largely in the higher education space bringing instant cheer to the sector, but amid ambitious promises, implementation remains a key challenge. Most of the efforts on education has come in the last one-and-a-half years as it lost the first two-and-a-half years battling controversies of its own making. The promise to enhance education spending to 6% of GDP is still a distant dream. Other than the IIM Act, most of its academic or administrative reform initiated were through executive orders, making it easier for implementation. The government has established a higher education finance authority to reduce the dependence of state-run institutions on government grants.

Source: Mint May 26, 2018 05:26 UTC