Challanges and Problems of Management and Administration of Higher Education in India

Contents: Preface. 1. Perennial problems of higher education. 2. Education planning and administration. 3. Supervision and inspection. 4. Administration of higher education. 5. Higher education in free India. 6. Recent developments in higher education. 7. Higher education and social development. 8. Pressures in higher education. 9. National development and higher education. 10. Universities and social change. 11. The role of universities in a developing countries. 12. Our affiliated and junior colleges. 13. Principal sets the place for his team. 14. New goals of higher education. 15. University administration today. 16. What is university autonomy? 17. Indian intellectuals. 18. Professional ethics and accountability of teachers. 19. Recent trends in university management. 20. Reorganizing higher education.

"Higher education is a place where old knowledge is maintained and efforts are made to improve the old knowledge through research. During the last 200 years the quantum of knowledge had doubled, but in the modern world the quantum of knowledge is doubling every 20 years. Under these circumstances it is the moral obligation of the institutes of higher education to retain the new knowledge and to help in the process of the creation of new knowledge. Any civilisation can survive only on the basis of knowledge and scientific skills. If civilisation has to survive in the modern scientific and technological world then the institutions of higher education will have to handle this function of creation of new knowledge and skills very wisely and efficiently. The developing countries like India need new scientific and technological knowledge for its faster development, they lack resources for research and development. In India the Institution of the University Grants Commission is entrusted with this onerous responsibility of maintaining and developing higher education. The institutions of higher education also need to have talented personnel for this work. The institutions of higher education need to have sufficient funds for the recruitment and training of university teachers." (jacket)