IRAHE stands for:

IRAHE stands for the Independent Regulatory Authority for Higher Education, a single independent regulator proposed for the sector.

Reading it as an international authority mistakes its national scope.

Calling it an independent research authority replaces regulation, its core purpose, with research.

Naming it an inter-university regulatory authority wrongly limits it to relations between universities.

The idea was put forward by the National Knowledge Commission to unify higher education regulation.

NEP 2020 carries this idea further through a single umbrella higher education regulator.