Challenges for Quality of Higher Education in India

India has birth rare of 25 million per year - developed countries have 1/3rd of students going to college. If India were to meet the same standard, it will need 8-9 million graduate seats in college and it has only 4.5 million today. India's contribution to the world research publication is only 3.7%, whereas China's contribution is 10.6% and the United States' contribution is whooping 27.7%. In the category of global patents, India's share is merely 0.5% and 0.2%, whereas Olina's share is 4.7% and 0.5% and the United States share is massive 52.2% and 41.8%. Though India has almost doubled its research publications between 2002 and 2008, this progress is over shadowed by glittering Chinese advancement (UNESCO, Science Report, 2010). India is entering the global employment marketplace with a self-imposed handicap of which we are just beginning to become conscious - an acute shortage of Quality institutions of higher education. According to the latest reports only 10% of graduates are directly employable in India and only 25% of engineering graduates are directly employable. Quality of education delivered in most institutions is very poor. The Indian Institutes of Technology are world renowned and their graduates are represented in some of the world's leading corporations. However. these elite institutions are accessible to only a few qualified students, less than 1%. The overall scenario of higher education in India does not match with the global Quality standards. This paper presents the brief idea about the quality of Indian higher education. It is also discuss the issues of Higher Education Quality, reasons for Poor Quality in Higher Education in India and suggestions for improving the quality of higher Education.