Higher Education Quality and BRICS Network University Pact

Abstract

Education is a universal tool, which empowers and sets the progressive tenor for future humankind and globe. In view of this, BRICS Network University (NU) has created a co-operative institutional mechanism wherein 12 universities of five nations will engage typically for designing educational programs, initiating research and innovation activities, and planning the academic mobility of faculty, staff, and students. Paralleled, there is also an acute need for BRICS NU to build, nurture, and sustain academic leadership in its universities to enable the expansion of its gamut to address the global opportunities and challenges in higher education. Adopting a qualitative case-based approach this paper seeks to understand how academic leadership will boost the higher education quality through the BRICS NU pact. It also deliberates on the need for conscious responsiveness to the ever-changing nature of higher education, needs to collaborate and engage globally, imbibe the global opportunities and convert the global challenges into research problems and academic programmes.