Is the current National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) exercise going to motivate and encourage academia to generate meaningful research and teaching? This makes the ranking exercise even more intriguing, as raising research and teaching quality involves increased expenses. Despite these glaring shortcomings, the University Grant Commission’s (UGC’s) new draft regulations proposes to use the NIRF ranking to allocate its scarce public funds. It may also lead to further financial disenfranchisement of deserving public universities. The current NIRF framework, therefore, begs an urgent debate.

Source: Hindustan Times July 03, 2017 12:32 UTC