The system of higher education in India is perhaps the largest and the oldest in the world. A quick perusal of the developments in higher education indicates that, in spite of other various inadequacies and limitations institutions of higher learning in India have helped in the accumulation of a stock of scientific and technical manpower, which is the third largest in the world. However, this had two consequences. One, there was an alleged drop in quality of higher education. And two, there was some disproportionality in the development of manpower between various sectors. Coupled with this have been the problems facing the Indian economy and the resultant erratic way of its expansion. A third related problem has been the inadequate manpower projection and manpower planning. All these have resulted in a certain amount of disfunctionality between the output of higher education and the intake of the job market, in other words, unemployment of the uneducated. There are still miles to go before the objectives of equity, quality and relevance can be achieved. There is strong feeling that the legacy of colonial higher education still influences Indian universities. In this book, a critical appraisal has been attempted with a view to unraveling some of the complexities of the higher education which affect the quality. In the light of the presentation, the role of higher education in meeting the future challenges has also been discussed. This book also suggests ways and means to mobilize additional resources in order to meet the ever growing maintenance and developmental needs of higher education, even though this has to be accompanied by internal academic changes in the system.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR H.D. Bist
Dr. H.D. Bist was Professor of Physics at IIT, Kanpur till June 1995 and then Emeritus Scientist of CSIR till 2000. He was ES (AJCTE) till June 2003. He has been Visiting Professor in several universities in USA, Canada and Japan. Dr. Bist has travelled widely throughout the world in lecture tours. Dr. Bist has been recipient of the Fulbright award (both Junior and Senior). He has organised three International conferences and has authored/edited seven books (Elsevier, Tata McGraw Hill etc.). He has published more than 250 papers in reviewed journals. Dr. Bist is a life member of Indian Academy of Sciences, Lasers and Spectroscopy Society of India, Indian Laser Association, Indian Association of Physics Teachers and Indian Academy of Sciences, Lasers and Spectroscopy Society of India, Indian Laser Association, Indian Association of Physics Teachers and Indian Science Congress. He is also a fellow of LASSI. Dr. Bist has been the first Professor of hysics and first head of Institution at the Nainital Campus of Kumaon University. He has general interest in the field of Education oand Modern Scientific and Technological developments.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR R.K. Gupta
Shri R.K. Gupta, is a disciple of one of the greatest saints of the Naqshbandi Order Thakur Ram Singh Ji, an officer in the Police Department of the erstwhile Jaipur State, who earned his livelihood by the sweat of his brow and reared his family. During his lifetime itself he had become a legendary figures because of his honesty and sincerity, and devotion to his Master Mahatma Ram Chandra ji Maharaj of Fatehgarh, UP. Born in 1950, the author had the fortune to visit his Master at the young age of 15 years, when his father, Dr. Chandra Gupta, took him to the pious feet of Thakur Ram Singh Ji. A man of few words, Thakur Ram singh ji left a deep impression and sowed the seed of Love in the heart of the author, in the first sight itself. The author spend his formative years from 1966 to 1970 under the gracious auspices of Thakur Ram Singh Ji and thereafter under Dr. Chandra Gupta, his father, who also was a great Sufi Master.
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