Summary

Indian partners have identified ‘benchmarking’ as the most effective means of directly addressing major problems within their HE system and its quality management, at national and institutional levels. European HE has extensive, though diverse, experiences of ‘benchmarking’ and, in particular, its role(s) within QA management. The European partners have a proven record in supporting and ‘solving’ QA management issues through EC funded projects. Whilst the Indian partners will gain from expertise and experiences of the European partners, the European partners will also gain, through working with new partners across one of the World’s largest and fastest developing HE systems. It is anticipated that the Project will both help ‘solve’ its target problems in India but also result in a series of ‘spin off’ innovative collaborations at institutional and individual levels

Coordinated by the University of Barcelona with the indian coordination of the NAAC, the project aims at coordinating efforts in developing an understanding of the concepts and introducing a culture of benchmarking in India as a mean of encouraging institutional reform and as a tool for measuring how effectively universities are governed. The aim is to set a cluster of quantitative and qualitative indicators as a means of identifying targets for achievement to benchmark progress aim at improving the quality management and hence quality of education, research, innovation, and internationalisation in Indian universities in general and comparing best practices with European Universities.