Indian university system to be overhauled

Nature News : Indian universities are likely to find themselves under a new oversight body, human resource development minister Kapil Sibal has announced.Physicist Yash Pal led the committee that recommended setting up a six-member National Commission for Higher Education and Research (NCHER) to reform higher education. The commission would replace nearly a dozen regulatory bodies and bring all streams of higher education, including engineering, medicine, agriculture, and law, under its purview.