Mala Singh

As the costs of higher education escalate and the struggle intensifies to gain access to higher education and succeed in acquiring a qualification that opens up employment opportunities, the issue of the quality of higher education is becoming more urgent. Mala Singh explains how one can assess the standard of an academic programme or qualification.

Some of the facts and complexities of the master’s of business administration (MBA) reaccreditation process have become lost in the controversy around the exercise. First, some facts. It is not the government that carried out the MBA evaluation. The Council of Higher Education is an independent statutory body.