"We need to create institutions and empower the institutional heads," says former Reserve Bank of India governor Jalan.
The curricula implementers and student respondents indicated that the current curricula responded to national needs (ranging from a high of about one third private institutions and students to less than one tenth institutional heads) even though stakeholders were not involved in their development.
There's a few checks and balances like reviews by the institutional head and by a review board which are supposed to be done at five days, 30 days and every following 30 days but Sapers said "administrative segregation can be indefinite as long as all of those reviews go on".
The institutional heads and faculty members, however, thought that the current programme duration was ideal.
Institutional heads and faculty members also had similar views to express about certain modules, particularly Biostatistics.
The commitment of institutional head has been considered as an essential factor in successful curricular changes internationally [ 11, 24, 25].
The same happened in case of the institutional heads and many changed over this period of time.
Above 87% of institutional heads and 80% of faculty respondents stated that there is written guidelines for curricula review.
The contact person is either the institutional head (in bold) or the lead responsible for the proposed center of excellence.
Lack of commitment, appreciation of and resistance to CBE appeared to permeate at all levels - regulatory bodies, institutional heads and faculty members.
Any educational change entails cost and although the analysis of the data shows that the commitment for continuing the program was present at the governmental and institutional level, the institutional heads had reservations about its sustainability [ 10, 24].
