Higher Education in India : An Overview

Contents: Preface. 1. Quality in higher education: role of NAAC/Udayan Mandal and Prof. Dibyendu Bhattacharyya. 2. Innovations in higher education through online technologies/Maran Bandhu Majumder. 3. Role of technology enhanced learning (TEL) for open and distance education in relation to higher level of education/Abhishek Mallick. 4. Redefining values in higher education: a challenging strategy for sustainable development/Sutapa Das. 5. A synoptic study of higher education system in India/Md. Farukuddin Mallik. 6. Development of higher education in pre-Independence India/Arpita Sarkar. 7. Research in higher education: an approach to procure a global standard of living in 21st century/Bapi Mishra. 8. ICTs in teacher education: prospects and challenges/Amal Kr. Sarkar. 9. Quality teacher education in India: a real challenge in the 21st century/Pradip Debnath. 10. Development of hisgher education in post-Independence India/Tripti Dutta. 11. Problems and prospects of Indian higher education/Prakash Chandra Jena. 12. Recognizing the challenges and developing best practices for sustaining quality in higher education/Shivangi Nigam. 13. Role of different accreditation bodies in quality enhancement/Vimal Kishor. 14. Teachers perspective on ICT integration at higher education/P.S. Sreedevi. 15. Higher education and educational autonomy in India/Pushkrit Gupta. 16. FDI in Indian higher education sector: some issues/Krushan Chandra Patra. 17. Role of UGC, NCTE and NAAC in higher education/A. Suneera. 18. Academic freedom and autonomy in higher education/Subhash Sarkar and Joseph Lalruatdika Molsom. 19. Education as a concept of HRD/Meera Dahal. 20. Higher education in India: transformation from an imperial colony to a developing country/Usashi Kundu (De). 21. Development of higher education in pre-Independence India/Dipti Choudhury. 22. Human resource management, planning and development in higher education in India/Diptimayee Behera. 23. Impact of annual and semester system on degree college students: with special reference to Chirang District, Assam/Ram Krishna Chakraborty and Rimush Narzary. 24. Changing context of higher education in India: an analysis/Mouchumi Duarah. 25. Need for human resource management in improving quality of the higher educational sector in India/Saumyajit Acharya. 26. E-Learning in India higher education-how far is its destination in India/Purabi Das. 27. Co-curricular activities enhance learning in higher education/Anju Kumari. 28. MOOC: futuristic technology promotes effective professional teacher education/R.D. Padmavathy. 29. Transformative perspective for holistic development in higher education/Rohini P. Trivedi. 30. Unit cost of higher education borne by the backward-caste student/Dipanwita Das Gupta Ghosh.