Indo-European Conference on Quality Assurance

The conference provided the delegates an excellent opportunity to listen to the top European and the Indian experts on the established European practices and the Indian initiatives on quality assurance in Higher Education. It came at a time when the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) of the Govt. of India is actively considering the ways to regulate the delivery of Higher education in India so as to position itself for leadership in the knowledge-based economies of the coming era. The “Joint Declaration on Education” signed by the European Commission and Government of India (MHRD) expresses a conjoint will to increase academic mobility and develop links between the Indian and the European higher education institutions.  Ongoing EU-India collaborations in higher education, it is believed, are confronted by numerous challenges that have to be dealt with at multiple levels and most importantly, at the levels of policy and implementing agencies on quality assurance mechanisms and the participation of stakeholders.