Higher education system has expanded manifolds as well as new dimensions are being added in the old and outdated higher education system causing tensions, strains, conflicts and problems. Keeping these factors in mind, an attempt has been made to pen down three volumes based on study, research observation, experimentation, discussion on higher education in the 21 century to help the policy makers, planners and decision-makers to understand the dynamics of higher education system and how to streamline it to optimize the benefits as well as how to cope with the new dimensions of higher education. An added factor is to introduce innovative changes to make the institutions of higher education quality conscious and excellent to face the challenges of liberalization, privatization and globalization. Besides, the opportunities offered by information technology are to be utilized to improve educational technology and make use of distance education system in a big way. The organised education would have a significant role to play in providing value based education to our students that focuses not only on the immediate measure as of personal benefit but also on the long term gains to humanity. Designing education programmes which promote economic growth and, at the same time, show equal concern for inculcating basic human values is perhaps the greatest challenge that the educational planners face today. This encyclopaedia of higher education in the twenty first century has been logically divided into three volumes keeping in view the role of higher education in the past, present and future, i.e. 21 century, though each volume supplements the other with forward and backward linkages. Chapters have been supplemented with charts, graphs, tables, illustrations and case studies to make the reading authentic and interesting. These three volumes on "Encyclopaedia of Higher Education in the 21 Century" would be of great use to policymakers, planners and decision makers as well as to all those concerned with higher education. It would be of great relevance to the departments of education in the universities, vice-chancellors, principals in colleges, faculty members in higher education to promote academic excellence and a super knowledge society in this century.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aruna Goel
Dr. Aruna Goel an eminent scholar of Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy is currently Professor of Sanskrit at Panjab University, Chandigarh, and member of Sahitya Academy, Govt. of India (Sanskrit Board) and member of Senate of Panjab University, Chandigarh. She was earlier member University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi and a member of the Society of India Institute of Advaqnced study, Shimla. She is on the Advisory panel of Rashtriya Sanskrit Sansthan ( A Deemed University) to start Sanskrit courses to suit current needs. She has one more than 30 years of experience in teaching and research of Sanskrit and Indian Philosophy. She has completed a UGC major research project on Modern Knowledge and ancient Sanskrit Literature. She has authored more than 20 research books which are of great use for Sanskrit scholars of other discipline as these books are interdisciplinary in approach. She has published 85 research papers in Indian and Foreign journals. Dr. Aruna Goel was awarded cultural exchange programmed by Ministry of HRD, GOI, New Delhi to visit Hungary. She also visited most of the European countries and lectured on Indian Philosophy with special references to Yoga. She is widely traveled in India and abroad. She has been honored by many awards. She has been invited by academic institution to deliver convocation addresses and talk on important areas of Indian Philosophy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR S.L. Goel
Dr. S.L. Goel, Emeritus Fellow UGC at Panjab University, and an eminent social scientist has been teaching Public Administration and Political Science for over thses decades. He has been a member of University Grants Commission, Govt. of India, New Delhi, Distance Education Council and a member of All India Board of Management under All India Council for Technical Education, Ministry of HRD, New Delhi. His field of specialisation is Public Administration and Management. He has been advisor to Himachal Pradesh and Haryana Health Departments under their USAID Programme. He has written a number of books on Management and Public Administration, foreign students for Doctoral research as well as conducted a large number of training programmes for senior administrators. He has been an elected member of the Senate of P.U., Chandigarh form 1984-88. He is widely traveled in India and Abroad. He was Chairman for UGC IXth Plan Allocation for the Universities in Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh and Co-Chairman for Maharashtra. North-East Universities as well as with some Central Universities. He was Convenor UGC Tth Plan Committee for Jama Milia University, New Delhi, Chitarkoot University, Chitarkoot, Rajasthan University, Jaipur and all Colleges of Delhi University. He was a member of Xth Plan Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi in 2003. As a member of UGC, he was associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff associated with a number of Programmes like Academic Staff Colleges, Special Assistance Programme, Autonomous Colleges, where he contributed substantially. He has also published more than thirty books on other areas. He has been a Visiting Professor and a consultanat at Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok. He visited USSR under Indo-cultural Exchange Programme. He has also served as Professor of Public Administration at Haryana Institute of Public Administration, Chandigarh and in the capacity directed a number of Executive Development Rogrammes meant for Senior Civil Servants. He visited D.R. of Korea, Japan, Hongkong to study the system of Education. He was in Hungary, Switzerland, France, Italy and U.K. to study the health care system in these countries during the summer of 1999.
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