INDIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES

The Success story of the post – independent India turns out bleak when the question of quality is raised. Higher Education has been finding it difficult to meet the issues of unplanned expansion, educated unemployment, uneven growth, commercialization of education, financial crises, teacher burn out and the digital divide of quantity Vs quality, equity Vs excellence, creativity Vs conformity are posing continuous threats to higher education. At this Juncture, the new education must be teach every individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to look at problems from new direction and finally how to teach himself/herself. Teachers are the best trained manpower for a nation. Because, they produce Technologists, Scientists, Doctors, Engineers, Policy makers, Businessmen and Teachers. Therefore through quality assured training programs it has become necessary to produce, competent, professionals to meet the ever – growing demands of liberalization and globalization. Hence, the emerging Indians society needs to make the system of education must innovative and futuristic in order to the changing demands of the modern Indian Society. The existing education should be improved according to the needs of the time. It has to fulfill the demands of one’s own country and the changing scenario of the world. It must be competitive and co – operative. Looking into these factors the education from primary to higher and even technical education needs to be improved from time to time, to transform the capacity of the people’s vision for society. Every system of education aims at moulding the individuals to play their roles in the society most effectively.