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Indian higher education is the third largest in the world. It is undergoing unprecedented expansion and reforms. Yet, no Indian university figures among the World’s Top 100! The problem lies primarily with the quality of higher education. This book serves as a quality management guide for the heads of colleges and universities, focusing on issues, techniques and improvement at the institutional level. In building up a sound framework, it effectively ...
So far as education is concerned, India has come a long way since independence, especially after inheriting 81per cent illiterate population with skeletal institutional framework and wide spread poverty. With massive expansion at all levels of education, India has significantly advanced access to education for vary large mass of people. With several schemes and programmes for the educationally deprived people in the country coupled with enlarged institutional ...
The twentieth Century was a century of paradoxes characterized by great scientific discoveries coupled with colossal human destruction. When the information and communication technology brought world closer into a global village, the competitive faiths pulled them apart from each other. Inter-faith has never been such a crying concern than ever before. The Temple of Understanding undertook to bring together scholars on one platform to discuss, debate and ...
There are several outstanding books on Ancient Indian Education by Altekar, Das, Keay, Mookerjee that competently documented the System of Ancient Indian Education in all its details. A critical analysis from the angle of its relevance and applicability in modern times, however, was missing. This book meaningfully fills that void. It provides a rational and critical analysis of the ancient Indian Education System and identify such dimensions that are applicable ...
World-wide, research evidence indicates wide gap between learning potential and learning outcome; underachievement in education has been a significant concern. To alleviate the situation, educational technology has been seen as the most important tool for optimizing human learning. There are breathtaking developments in the understanding of human learning as well as in ICT ushering in a paradigm shift in educational technology. Equally true is the increasing gap ...
EDUSAT is an important promise in the life of Indian nation. Conceptualized sometime in 2001 or earlier in ISRO, it surfaced in 2002 with the document Educating the nation: the Need for a Dedicated Satellite, authorship credited to Prof. Mukhopadhyay. EDUSAT was launched on 20th Century September 2004, four months ahead of schedule. The ground network is yet to be ready, and hence utilization of EDUSAT is still and open question. They story is woven around ...
Quality in education is a matter of global quest; for India this quest is all the more important for it to become a global player. In order to succeed in this and to attain global standards in local settings, it is necessary for Indian educational institutions to both improve and sustain quality. In this context, Total Quality Management offers a unique and reliable method to design and implement quality in educational institutions. This is a completely revised ...
There was a massive turn of events in education in the late 1990s, particularly with the emergence of right wing BJP into power. We decided to take a fresh look at the dynamics of development of Indian education, based on our experience in Indian Education: Development Since Independence. Several major institutions like CABE, ACC, etc. were adapted to suit political agenda of cultural nationalism during the NDA Regime. There was no qualitative shift in the regime ...
Educational institutions experience growth and development or decay and degeneration with the change of leadership at the top. This everyday experience is strongly corroborated by empirical research. Growth and development of institutions are often incidental depending upon the knack of the person in leadership position, rather than a planned strategic management. The valiant efforts of leaders often go uncelebrated. Without documentation and dissemination, their ...