Higher Education and Global Challenges : Systems and Opportunities
Contents: Preface. 1. Rethinking quality parameters in higher education/S.L. Sharma. 2. The challenge of change to the Indian education system: some suggestions for quality response/Satya Prakash Singh. 3. Globalization and higher education/S.P. Singh. 4. Teacher competencies in higher education/S.C. Gakhar. 5. New goals of education: "Quality of higher education in India: the challenge of change"/Asha Maudgil. 6. Quality in higher education: challenges of change/Asha Mohan Sethi. 7. Globalization and higher education: meeting the challenges and creating new opportunities for harnessing relevant, useful and significant courses of higher education/Nirmala Chaudhary. 8. Higher education in a state of decline in India: looking for possible reasons/Vibha Sinha. 9. Quality of higher education in India: the challenge of change/Sukhwant Bajwa and Shaifali. 10. Challenges of higher education/B.D. Budhiraja. 11. Status of higher education in India--an overview/R.K. Gupta. 12. Quality of management education--challenges ahead/Karamjeet Singh. 13. The quality of management education--the challenge of changing scenario/P.P. Arya. 14. Higher education need practical reforms/Ashwani Bhalla. 15. Education in 2020: a realistic vision/Abhilash Nayak. 16. Indian higher education in 21 century: some remarks/Dharmendra Goel. 17. Merit, utility and education for India: the first arguments from colonial times/M. Rajivlochan. 18. Cultural component in higher education/Anjala Maharishi. 19. Poetics and politics of decolonizing higher education/Madhu Gupta and Akshaya Kumar. 20. Role of values in human resource development/Nandita. 21. Indianising the education system/Laxminarain Sharma. 22. Decolonizing education--the Indian perspective/Rishi Raj Sharma and Avneet Mann. 23. Straightening the tripod stand for higher education: the third dimension/Latika Sharma. 24. Financing of higher education/B.S. Ghuman. 25. Redefining parameter for quality higher education/Sarswati Ghosh. 26. Governance at management schools/Suveera Gill. 27. Role of privatization in higher education: with special reference to vocational and professional education/R.H. Taxak. 28. Comments on ministry of commerce paper on GATS--education/P.K. Vasudeva. 29. Implications of GATS on education services/P.K. Vasudeva. 30. Management education in India: agenda for reform/Upasna Joshi. 31. Autonomy for the centres of higher education--the need of the hour/R.S. Brar. 32. Continuous assessment for enhancement of quality of higher education/Raj Kumari Gupta. 33. Communications effectiveness of teachers at tertiary level/H.S. Anant. 34. Benchmarking through network: an effective method of improving quality of higher education/Victor S. Gambhir, B.B. Goel, Dixit Garg and S.G. Deshmukh. 35. Higher education in India in the 21 century: challenges and implications for policy action/M.R. Khurana. Bibliography. Index.
"There is a definite need to identify the strengths, weaknesses of our higher educational system and the opportunities and challenges facing the system. With the challenges of globalization and info-tech revolution, there is a need to improve the quality of higher education in India and make it accessible to every eligible and interested student. The globalized economy provides tremendous opportunities and challenges for our institutions of higher education.
At the time of independence in 1947, there were 20 universities and around 550 colleges in the country. Today, there are more than 300 universities and approximately 13,150 affiliated colleges in the country. However, the educational opportunities still remain insufficient for meeting our societal needs." (jacket)
