Indian Higher Education At A Crossroads

The book titled “Indian Higher Education at a Crossroads” edited by Prof . Khwaja M Shahid and Bhanu Pratap Pritam has made an effort to locate the contemporary Indian Higher Education from developmental chronology . Beginning with a stock of historical development of Indian Higher Education and largely the colonial framework of higher education to the recent issues in management and administration has also been categorically placed. Some of the well known educationists of the country have also contributed their thoughts on higher education and its contemporary concerns. The book has been categorized in various sub-themes such as; development of Indian higher education, policy issues in higher education, contemporary and professional education, economic perspectives in higher education, excellence in higher education, social concerns in higher education, global perspectives in higher education and finally the editors of the book have also concluded with a chapter “Indian Higher Education: A Way Forward” . The book expects to present the Indian Higher Education from governance and administrative perspective before the reader.

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. Development of Indian Higher Education. 1 Historical Development of Higher Education in India/Khwaja M Shahid. 2. Issues in Managing Indian Higher Education/ Khwaja M. Shahid. Policyissues in Higher Education. 3. Management of Higher Education in India: Problems and Prospects/Faizan Mustafa. 4. Reforms in Higher Education: Facts and Impacts/K. Sudha Rao. 5. Challenges to Higher Education in India/DN Reddy. 6. Taking Higher Education in India to the Future – Some Thoughts/Sunaina Singh. Contemporary Higher and Professional Education. 7. Growth and Development of Engineering Education in India/Pradeep Kumar Choudhury. 8. Teacher Education at a Cross Roads: Critical Reflections from Justice Verma Commission Report/Bhanu Pratap Pritam. 9. Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan: A Trajectory of Indian Higher Education Policy and Implementation Challenges/Bhanu Pratap Pritam and P.F. Rahman. Economic Perspectives in Higher Education. 10. FDI and Public Private Partnership in Higher Education/Saneem Fatima and Syed Ahmed Saad. 11. Higher Education in India: Service Revolution and Economic Development/H. Akther Banu, S. Mansoor Rahman, Syed Samiuddin Muzamil. 12. Higher Education and its Labour Market Aspects: A Review of Selected Issues and Evidences from India/Fayaz Ahmad Bhat. Excellence in Higher Education. 13. Assuring Quality and Excellence in Higher Educational Institutions of India: Critical Role of NAAC- A Case Study of MANUU/Shazli Hasan Khan and Abdul Rasheed Shaik. 14. Professional Ethics: The Crisis in Higher Education/Tanu Shukla. 15. Cognizance of Media Literacy in Higher Education/Gajendra Singh Chauhan. Social Concerns in Higher Education. 16. Structural Barriers at Work Place: Gender in Higher Education/Tanu Shukla. 17. Inclusive Growth and Public Expenditure in Higher Education­ Issues and Suggestions/Arifa S Makandar. Global Perspectives in Higher Education. 18. Internationaliasation of Higher Education: A Trajectory for Professional Development of Teachers/Bhanu Pratap Pritam. 19. World University Rankings: Status of Indian Universities/P. F. Rahman, and Bhanu Pratap Pritam. Indian Higher Education. 20. Indian Higher Education: A Way Forward/Khwaja M Shahid and Bhanu Pratap Pritam.