Title:
Higher education reform in India : experience and perspectives
Publication Information:
New Delhi : Sage Pub, 1993
ISBN:
9780803991118
General Note:
Papers prepared for a research project of the Comparative Education Center, State University of New York at Buffalo, and funded by the World Bank
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Summary
Summary
This first full-scale analysis of the recent reforms in Indian higher education explores key policy areas and describes how some of the most interesting programmes have come into fruition. Contributors present case studies of innovative developments such as the Institutes of Technology and the Open University, as well as examining the broader elements which shape the reality of higher education in India.
Table of Contents
| IntroductionPhilip G Altbach and Suma Chitnis |
| The Dilemma of Change in Indian Higher EducationPhilip G Altbach |
| Part 1 Policy Perspectives |
| Financing Higher Education in IndiaJandhyala B G Tilak |
| The Language Question in Higher EducationN Jayaram |
| Trends and Issues |
| Accessing Higher EducationKaruna Chanana |
| Women, Minorities, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes |
| Examination Reform in Traditional UniversitiesMathew Zachariah |
| A Few Steps Forward, Many Steps Back |
| Coordinating Agencies in Higher EducationAmrik Singh |
| Part 2 Case Studies |
| Scientific Research - Autonomous Research Institutions and UniversitiesB M Udgaonkar |
| Institutions of Higher Education and ExtensionDenzil Saldanha and Padma Velaskar |
| The Case of Adult Education |
| The Quest for QualityJayalakshmi Indiresan |
| Interventions Versus Impact |
| The Indian Institutes of TechnologyP V Indiresan and N C Nigam |
| Excellence in Peril |
| The Open UniversityV C Kulandai Swamy |
| Gearing a Colonial System of Education to Take Independent India Towards DevelopmentSuma Chitnis |
