Educational Problems

Contents: Preface. 1. Problems of elementary education. 2. Problems of secondary education. 3. Problems of higher education. 4. Impact of globalisation of higher education. 5. Problems of teacher education. 6. Education as character development. 7. Policies and programmes of educational administration. 8. Problems of educational administration. Bibliography. Index.

For thousands of years, India has been a major seat of learning. While some of the country’s universities are among the world’s well renowned, it also dealing with challenges in its primary education and strives to reach 100 per cent literacy. Universal compulsory primary education, with its challenges of keeping poor children in school and maintaining quality of education in rural areas, has been difficult to achieve. All levels of education, from primary to higher education, are overseen by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, and heavily subsidized by the Indian government, though there is a more to make higher education partially self-financing.

This book concentrates its focus on to the issue of education as a whole and its persistent problems. It effectively explores and delineates what entails the problems of education at all levels -- pre-primary, primary, secondary, higher secondary, college and university. The various political, technological and social impacts on education are analyzed. In addition, it makes a thorough analysis of these matters in the light of contemporary trends and practices. This interesting and lucidly written book will be of interest to all those in the fields of education. It will also attract the attention of NGOs, administrators, and donors and multilateral agencies active in the field of education.