Emerging Trends in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices

Emerging Trends in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices
Author: K. N. Panikkar
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2011
Genre: Education, Higher
ISBN: 9788131758014

Papers presented at the International Seminar on Democratic and Secular Education, held at Thiruvananthapuram during 4-6 December 2008.

Indian Higher Education

Indian Higher Education
Author: Pawan Agarwal
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-07-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9788178299419

Demand for quality higher education, is continuing to outpace the supply due to growing population of young people, gains in school education, growing middle class and their rising aspirations. At the same time, the country has a unique opportunity to convert this demographic surplus to its economic strength by providing its young people the right kind of skills. Thus, higher education now occupies a central position in the country's strategy for global competitiveness and inclusive growth. Steps have been initiated to augment supply, improve quality and fix problems. The National Knowledge Commission (NKC) has made several useful and important recommendations and the government has significantly increased funding during the Eleventh Five Year Plan. In the backdrop of these developments, Indian Higher Education: Envisioning the Future, describes the Indian higher education landscape. The author spells out the needs, identifies the gaps, and based on the lessons learnt from the experiences of other countries provides perspectives to shape its future.

Emerging Trends in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices

Emerging Trends in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices
Author: M. Bhaskaran Nair
Publisher: Pearson Education India
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2011
Genre:
ISBN: 9332506663

Recognizing the need to ensure education for all especially in a developing nation like India, Emerging Trends in Higher Education: Concepts and Practices provides critical insights in the field of Education to achieve this goal. The essays in this volume present a comparative perspective of national and global education policies. It is useful for policy makers and the concepts and practices discussed wil be of help to students and scholars of sociology and educational studies.

Emerging Trends in Higher Education

Emerging Trends in Higher Education
Author: K. Panikkar
Publisher:
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2011
Genre: Computer-assisted instruction
ISBN:

A prerequisite to the formation of a developed nation is the need to ensure education for all. Recognizing the need to address this issue, especially in a developing nation like India,

The Future of Higher Education in India

The Future of Higher Education in India
Author: Sudhanshu Bhushan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9813290617

The book analyses various challenges emanating from privatization, globalization and public financial crunch to understand the future directions of higher education in India. The book presents a careful understanding of structure, finance and governance of higher education and advocates a new way to look at increasing the capability of students to secure their future. Attention has also been drawn to the inequalities prevailing in the system of higher education and pursuing inclusive approach so as to have sufficient employment opportunities for students in the labour market. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with the future in terms of university structure and functions, Part 2 deals with the future of financing higher education and Part 3 deals with capabilities required by teachers for the future of universities. It is an interesting collection of various themes in different chapters which are authored by serious researchers. All policy makers, university administrators and teachers and researchers of higher education interested in governance, financing, teaching as well as research in the area of higher education will find the contents of the book relevant. The book will benefit in understanding the challenges of higher education and help remodel the future of higher education in India.

New Trends in Education

New Trends in Education
Author: Surinder Jit Kaur
Publisher: New Delhi Publishers
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre:
ISBN: 8193037936

Education and training systems are under escalating stress to respon to the recent skills demands created by a swiftly changing and globalised market. Educational institutions and universities need to counter to the cycle of innovation and become accustomed with their officialdom and pedagogies to serve increasingly diverse learner profiles and advance the teaching and learning of a variety of skills for innovation. Present compilation of ideas may serve as foundation to educational institutes and educationists as key performers in the production, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge. This will definitely facilitate Re- research and enlighten academicians for their future endeavours.