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My Views On Higher Education In India

                                                          -Dr. S. Vijay Kumar Today, “Total Quality Management (TQM)” in education is the instrument of strength to withstand the challenges posed by the fast changing world scenario.      According to Gunnar Myrdal a noted economist, "education has an independent as well as instrumental value, i.e., the purpose of education must be to rationalize attitudes as well as to impart knowledge and skills. “Education for national development should aim at training the younger generation the life skills, self reliance, personality development, community service, social integration and political understanding" . The Latin word education means `bringing out the potentialities of the individual for self development'. Option for diversity of Courses: In today’s world we do not find packaged specializations. Most of the students after their course completion they have to pursue other courses for their livelihood, this wil

A VISION FOR HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA

                                                                                                                            -Dr. S. Vijay Kumar                          India is the largest contributor to the global workforce, its working age population surpassing 950 million. India has emerged as the world’s third largest economy. Despite many new national missions/programs and reforms agenda, by both the central and state governments with private sector intervention, the higher education sector is in a state of complete flux. While we have tremendously enhanced capacity, we lag in quality, given inadequate autonomy to our Universities. Centralized control and a standardized approach remain at the heart of regulations. We are in the 21st century with a mid we have seen countries like China, Korea and Singapore, transform from developing to advanced economies in a decade due to strategic planning and a larger vision that correlated economic development to transformation in the