• N. PRASANNA LAKSHMI

Quality enhancement and improvement in standards of higher education is an ongoing process. India is regarded as having the third largest reservoir of scientific and technical manpower in the world of nations with an estimated stock of about seven million. India has made significant achievements in the development of education. During the last sixty years after independence, higher education has expanded in India somewhat remarkably. The number of universities and colleges has increased, there is an explosion in student numbers, the enrolments in higher education. Today we have a number of technology, management, medical science institutions, besides a large number of engineering colleges and agricultural colleges. The Indian education system was thrown open after independence to all at all levels rich, poor, middle income classes, men and women, rural and urban population, backward and non backward segments of the population. There has been the development of institutions of excellence, producing highly specialized human capital. The best practices are those which improve the entire operations of the institutions and decide the standard of quality. However, the most important problem that the higher education system in India is the inequalities in the quality of the institutions in rural and urban areas.The institutions of higher education located in rural and socioeconomic backward areas are lacking in the implementation of best practices in higher education and quality. There are a number of colleges located in a remote, rural, backward and hilly areas, striving to achieve excellence. The emerging open learning systems, distance education significantly contributed to massification' of higher education. But the fact is that there is a higher degree of inequality in the quality of higher education between the institutions of higher education in the rural areas and the institutions of higher education in the urban areas. To reduce the inequalities of the quality of higher education and the implementation of best practices in higher education in the rural and urban areas equally is a challenging task. This paper discusses in detail how Quality Enhancement strategies, achievement, and obstacles involved in self financing institutions of higher learning in AP state.

"Quality Enhancement in Higher Education, Achievements and Failures: A Case Study of Self-Financing Institutions in AP state ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.357-364, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906X82.pdf

"Quality Enhancement in Higher Education, Achievements and Failures: A Case Study of Self-Financing Institutions in AP state ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp357-364, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906X82.pdf