Education and Economy
Contents: Preface. 1. Education and Economy/G. Velan. 2. Population growth and its implications in school education/S. Muthukumaran. 3. Shifts in development paradigms and poverty reduction strategies with focus on India and Pakistan/G. Raghava Reddy. 4. Dynamics of economics of education and development/P. Prasad. 5. Environmental education/M.A. Sudhir and M. Alankara Masillamani. 6. Future challenges in education/M. Mohamed Mustafa. 7. Environmental education: need of the hour/Dhulasi Birundha Varadarajan. 8. Wider perspectives of higher education in India/N. Sarawath and M. Vijaya Rani. 9. Grassroots approach with reference to primary education/N. Sarawathy. 10. Recent developments and contemporary issues in higher education/G. Subramaniapillay. 11. Strategies towards manage of environmental education/V. Dhulasi Birundha and R. Uma Maheswari. 12. Educational aspects in India an interstate analysis/S. Iyyampillai. 13. Education in Indian economy: some aspects of elementary education and higher education/P. Dhas. 14. Indian educational and economic scenario/R.S. Rangarajan. 15. Women\'s education for empowerment/K. Deiv Amani and V. Santhanalakshmi. 16. Compulsory education to all children vis-a-vis the child labour in India/Kalarani Rengasamy. 17. Trends in higher education in India/A. Paramasisvan. 18. The relevance of education in the new era trends and prospects/R. Manga Yarkarasu. 19. Investment in education and socio economic development/N. Mukundan and P. Ravichandran. 20. The problem of unemployment its effects on society and solutions/Peterson Oigara Obara. 21. Role of education in economic development/A. Senthil Nathan and N. Sakul Hameed. 22. The problem of child labour and the bonded labour and the measures to eliminate child labour and bonded labour system from India/A. Suresh and K. Sadeeshkumar. 23. Unemployment and its solutions/N.P. Andia Rani. 24. Economic determinants of non-enrolment and dropout in schools--a case study of Kallikudi Block in Madurai District/A. Duraisamy and S. Chandrasekar. 25. Problems of unemployment on India/A. Ubakara Selvam and A.V. Chinnasamy. 26. Community education and folk media.
"The book which is a collection of articles written by distinguished academics and presented in a National Level Seminar organised during the Academic Year 2001-02 under the aegis of the centre for Dr. Zakir Hussain Studies (UGC Sponsored) of Madurai Kamaraj University Higher Level of Education would help any country to the peak level of economic development. This parameter is applicable to India very much note with standing the achievements and studies made in the educational sector, this sector\'s development in India is neither too little nor too much. It\'s position is in the middle though nor at a cross roads. India has to go a long way to achieve the set or planes goals in these two important sectors namely education and economy.
The papers authored by economists and educationists point the fact that educational development is the prerequisite of the necessary conducive condition to the economic development of a country and they offer constructive and meaningful suggestions to these sectors to deliver much to the country in future.
India urgently needs a knowledge based economy for which the education as of all levels should shine and rise." (jacket)
