Approaches to Higher Education/J.L. Singh, R.K. Pandey and A.K. Singh.
New Delhi, Sunrise, 2002, xxii, 273 p., tables, ISBN 81-87365-02-1.
Approaches to Higher Education/J.L. Singh, R.K. Pandey and A.K. Singh.
New Delhi, Sunrise, 2002, xxii, 273 p., tables, ISBN 81-87365-02-1.
Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Higher education reforms: an Indian experience/K.D. Gaur and Rachita Rana. 2. An overview of higher education in India/K.D. Gaur, Rachita Rana and Munish Gaur. 3. Need for new education policy for higher education in India/K.D. Gaur and Rachita Rana. 4. Higher education policy in India: an overview/J.L. Singh and Nilay Kumar. 5. An overview of teachers' development in higher education in India/Arun Kumar Singh and Ravi Pandey. 6. Higher education: desiderata for the twenty-first century/U.M. Jha. 7. Democratisation and decentralisation of university system in India/Monica Saxena, Ravi Pandey and S. Ekta. 8. A new Paradigm for higher education in the twenty-first century/N.M. Lall, Sheelvati Agarwal and S.K. Singh. 9. Challenges of higher education in twenty-first century--a sociological study/Amita Srivastava. 10. Relevance of home science in higher education/Monica Saxena. 11. Higher education in India--a challenge for the twenty-first century/Jitendra Kumar Singh. 12. Dynamics of higher education and involvement of women: an analysis/Monica Saxena and Nilay Kumar. 13. Challenges before higher education in twenty-first century/Vinod Kumar Pandey. 14. Role of information technology in higher education in the twenty-first century/G.P. Pandey and Joya Chakraborty. 15. Evolving education system from within India/Biplab Loha Choudhury. 16. National policy and higher education/Ashuthosh Srivastava. 17. Education and Indian economy/K.D. Gaur and J.L. Singh. 18. Education and development: lessons from developing countries/K.D. Gaur and J.L. Singh. 19. HRD of faculty in higher education/V. Prakash and Arun Bhadauria. Index.
"Higher education promotes social and economic development by building human and technical capabilities of a society. The development of higher education is highly correlated with the level of overall development. Technical change and institutional change are two key components of development. Higher education has an important role to play in facilitating these changes by helping to integrate advanced training and research with shifting economic realities. The focus should be on four main directions for reforms in higher education: greater differentiation of higher educational institutions, including the development of private institutions, redefinition of the role of the state in higher education with greater emphasis on institutional autonomy and accountability, and introduction of policies explicitly designed to give priority to quality and equity objectives.
In this book, it has been sought to examine main issues and aspects related to higher education which includes policy, network and financing in the global perspective in general and Indian context in particular and find out the relationship between development and transformation. Further, the dimensional perspective related to higher education and its policy have been examined since planning era. An attempt has been made to justify the need for new policy for higher education at different levels." (jacket)