Volume : III, Issue : I, January - 2014

Higher Education in India : Challenges and Opportunities

Vineeta Agrawal

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Higher education sector in India is undergoing rapid transformation. Since Independence this sector has grown remarkably. The country now has the largest higher education system in the world in terms of number of institutions, it holds the second largest place in terms of student enrollment. However despite this impressive statistics, there are still many inadequacies that plague the sector. India’s GER(Gross Enrollment Ratio) not only significantly lags behind that of developed nations such as US, Switzerland, Japan and UK but also that of developing countries including China, Brazil, Malaysia and Phillipines. Rising commodification, substandard quality, inappropriate measures of assessment, lack of focus on quality research and development, poor infrastructure and facuty shortages are some of the enormous issues that the education sector is currently grappling with. This paper seeks to address the challenges before education sector and also suggests actions to be taken to make India a real ‘knowledge hub’ of the world.

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Vineeta Agrawal Higher Education in India : Challenges and Opportunities International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.III, Issue.I January 2014

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